How do I setup my e-mail account?

This document is targeted primarily at users of Outlook Express e-mail software. If you use another e-mail client, for example: Office Outlook, the steps will be similar but not exactly the same.

When your domain name is set up on a Netring server, it has a collect all e-mail address. This means all e-mail sent to any address at your domain name will go to your main mail box.

  1. On the menu bar at the top of Outlook, click Tools, then Accounts.
  2. In the resulting dialog box, click Add then Mail in the top right (pictured below).

  3. Enter your name or a nickname in the Display namefield, for example David Jones, or Dave. This name appears to the recipients of your e-mails. Click Next.

  4. Enter your website's e-mail address, user-name@your-domain.co.uk, in the E-mail address field, then click Next.

  5. In the My incoming mail server is a ... field ensure POP3 is selected.

    Enter mail.your-domain.co.uk in the field Incoming Mail (POP3, IMAP, HTTP) server.
    In the field Outgoing mail (SMTP) server, your Internet Service Provider's SMTP server name is required.
    Many of these addresses take the form smtp.isp.com - for example: smtp.wanadoo.co.uk, smtp.tiscali.co.uk.
    If you remain unsure of your Internet Service Provider's SMTP server name, contact them. Click Next to continue.
  6. Enter your user-name in the Account name field.

    In the Password field, enter the password supplied in your welcome e-mail.
    Ensure Remember Password is checked then click Next.
    The e-mail service does not require Secure Password Authentication (SPA).

  7. Click Finish at the bottom of the window and your e-mail address is set up.