Setting up your email accounts

This guide shows Outlook Express and Outlook prior to version 2002. Screens for other POP3 mail clients may vary in layout.

Step 1: Tools Accounts

Step 2: Add Mail

Step 3: Enter a name

Choose something that is easy for you to know which email address you are setting up:

Step 4: Add your new email address:

Step 5: Enter your domain name email account twice. (Usually mail.yourdomainname, ie: mail.bluelantern.com or mail.bluelantern.net)

Step 6: Setting up account name and passwords. Enter the Account Name and passwords for the account that you are setting up. Such as info@bluelantern.com for the username as shown below. Then type the password that you were given for this account. Click Next.

Step 7: Click on the ‘More Settings …’ button in the lower right hand corner. In some versions of outlook/outlook express, you may have to finish setting up the account and then go back in and modify the account after it has been setup to reach this next screen.

Step 8: Click on the second tab along the top, labeled: ‘Outgoing Server’.

Step 9: Verify that the ‘My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication’ checkbox is checked as shown above. If it is not checked, please check it.