Configuring Outlook Express (or other software) to work with your email address.

After you've created a new email address for yourself in your website Control Panel (see FAQ "adding more email addresses to your account") you may want to use it with Outlook Express (or similar email client). This is convenient because your messages are delivered right to your PC when you turn it on and connect to the internet, and also you can have multiple email addresses all coming to you to the one place.

First click on File and Add New Account (might be different depending on which email software you use, but it will be something similar to this).

When you add a new email account there are a few settings that Outlook Express or similar requires:

1. Name of account: This can be anything you choose to call it.

2. Username: This will be your full email address, eg. "you@yoursite.com.au"

3. Password: Your password is required.

4. What kind of account: POP3

5. Incoming mail server: "mail.yoursite.com.au"

6. Outgoing mail server: "mail.yoursite.com.au"

Save all these settings and your account should be set up. When you open Outlook Express next time it will download your emails directly to your computer.

If you require further help setting this up, please let us know.

Note: Sometimes Outlook Express can be a real pain to use with multiple addresses and just will not cooperate no matter what you do. If you are getting frustrated trying to set it up you should try using instead one of the free alternatives such as Thunderbird.