Adding a new email account in Out 2003

 

 

When you purchase a new domain name (site name) from you ISP or website designer you inevitably have new email accounts set-up for you under this new name or you may be using your ISP's bespoke email reader but would really like to collect all your emails through one package such as Outlook

 

How do you set-up Outlook to collect your different emails?

 

Let's assume you have purchased www.holidayhomes.co.uk and you have had you have had admin@holidayhomes.co.uk set-up for you.

 

To set-up the admin@holidayhomes.co.uk

 

Open Outlook and go to

Tools, Accounts

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Select the mail tag and choose add then mail

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Put a display name in say “Admin”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Click next

Enter the email address is admin@holidayyhomes.co.uk

 

Click next

 

The incoming mail (POP3 or IMAP) is mail.holidayhomes.co.uk

The outgoing mail (SMTP) is Mail.yourISP (e.g. mail.btopenworld.com if your ISP is BT Openworld)

 

If you are not sure what your outgoing mail (SMTP) is ask you web designer or ISP or select another mail account, select properties and click the servers tag. Here you will

find details of your outgoing mail (SMTP)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Click next

 

Account name is admin@holidayhomes.co.uk

Password is your password for this account (This should be given to you by your web designers or ISP)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Click next

Select I will establish my Internet connection manually

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Click Next

 

 

 

 

Click finished

 

Go to Tools, Accounts and you will see your new account

If you are using Outlook 2000 Highlight the new entry Select Properties, change to your display name to Admin. There seems to be a bug in outlook that does not enter the correct name in the display name. Seems to be OK in outlook express