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1
The object of making these changes is to show your "alias"
identity to people who you contact by email.
If you have a domain that is only a name (i.e. not fully hosted) your
email will be forwarded to your standard mailbox and you will connect
to your mail using your normal account - but you want people to see
your special domain address...
To begin the process, click on the word Tools in the top line of your
Outlook Express window.
You will then see a drop-down menu of options, almost the last of which
is Accounts.
Step 2
Position the cursor on the name of your standard email account. Click
on Properties (right sidebar) then click each of the tabs (General,
Servers, Connection etc) to see how your existing account is set up.
Write down what you see in the boxes - especially the details under
the Server tab.
Don't make any changes to your existing setup. Simply write down the
details, then close that Properties box to come back to this point.
Once you have written down your existing Account details, come back
to this point. Remaining in this Accounts set-up box, click on Add (the
top button on the right) then Mail. This will open a "Wizard"
for setting up your new "Account" (though it isn't really
an account so much as an alias).
Step 3
This is the first page you will see in the Account setup "wizard".
The first thing the "wizard" asks you for is the "Display
name", for which you should type your name as you want people to
see it displayed in the "From" box when they receive an email
from you. Then click the "Next" button.
Step 4
The first thing the "wizard" asks you for is the "Display
name", for which you should type your name as you want people to
see it displayed in the "From" box when they receive an email
from you. Then click the "Next" button.
The next thing it will ask you is your email address, for which you
should type... you@yourdomain (i.e. the email address you have set up
against your special domain)
You will then see a drop-down menu of options, almost the last of which
is Accounts.
Step
5
The object of making these changes is to show your "alias"
identity to people who you contact by email. If you have a domain that
is only a name (i.e. not fully hosted) your email will be forwarded
to your standard mailbox and you will connect to your mail using your
normal account - but you want people to see your special domain address...
To begin the process, click on the word Tools in the top line of your
Outlook Express window.
Step 6
This is the bit that sets how the new "Account" connects to
your Internet server - but, of course, you want to connect in the same
way you always do, through your existing ISP (Internet Service Provider).
So fill in the boxes with the details you copied from your existing
setup. The "Account Name" should be yourname.yourexistingISP.com
(or .net, or .au, or .co.uk, or whatever address you use to connect
normally - the correct name can be found under the "Server"
Tab in your existing setup, against "Incoming Mail Server").
Step 7
The "congratulations" may be premature, because this "wizard"
often fails to set things properly (or even as you asked it to!)
So, although this looks like the end of the story, you probably need
to re-edit the new Account settings
Step
8
I wish Microsoft would let users set up Accounts without this "wizard",
because it rarely comes out right! However, having set it up you will
have a new Account that you can edit to make it right. Re-open the Accounts
window (Tools, Accounts, Mail) until it looks something like the one
shown below, but showing your existing Account(s) and the new one you
just set up.
Click on the new Account you just created and select Properties to check,
and probably to edit the settings. To start with, it may have ignored
the name you gave it and called it Account#2. You can change that to
whatever Title you want to show in your Email Accounts List... This
title is for your convenience and doesn't affect the way it works.
Step 9
You can then click through the two front tabs (General and Server)
and edit them as appropriate
Under the General tab the boxes should be filled in as follows -
Top box - Title of your choice
Name - Your Name (your domain)
Organisation - Your Company (or you can leave this box blank)
Email - you@yourdomain (i.e. put in your new email address)
Reply - you@yourdomain (i.e. put in your new email address)
DON'T tick the box for "include this account when receiving and
synchronising". If that box is checked you will get error messages
when sending mails. If it is checked already, click in the box to uncheck
it.
Step
10
This ought to show the settings you entered at the stages covered by
Page Five and Page Six. The information in the above boxes needs to
match what you have in your existing email set-up (the ones you wrote
down). Of course, your password will not show, but you either know this
to fill in from memory, or you can copy and paste it from the standard
Properties.
It is your choice whether or not you tick the box for "remember
password"... this is a matter of convenience versus security and
depends largely on whether someone else uses your PC.
Do not change anything under the Security or Advanced tabs |
