Setting up Outlook express 6

Open Outlook express and you will presented with a screen like the one below. Click on the Tools menu at the top, and go down the list to Accounts and select it.

Once you have clicked on accounts you will be presented with the following window, displaying which accounts you currently have setup (or not) in Outlook Express.

In this window, click on the Add button in the top right. This will in turn give you a list which you can select which type of account you wish to add. Click on mail and you will be presented with the following window where you want to fill in your name.

Fill in your name and click Next, then fill in your email address.
Here the example is using the Claranet account username.

Click Next again, and you will be asked for the incoming and outgoing mail servers, which we want to fill in as pop.clara.net and relay.clara.net as shown below. Leave the type of server at the top on POP3.

Click Next again and you will be prompted for the username and password that are to be used for your incoming mail server. Fill in your username, and your password, and click Next (dont tick the box for logon using secure password authentication).

Then you will be told you have entered all the information nessecary. Click finish.

This will return you to the accounts window, which should now display the account you have just setup as a mail account. This shows that the account is currently setup to use any available connection (it will use the default connection which Internet Explorer is setup to use, although you can change which connection it uses, see checking Outlook Express settings for help with this).

Click on Close in this window.

You should now be back in the Outlook Express program.
To check if you have any mail, click on Send/Recieve along the top.

This will give you a window like the following, which will display a progress bar and how many/much of any messages it is recieving.

Once any messages are recieved, you can click on the message in the top right hand window, and the preview panel below will display the contents of that message for you to read.

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