How do I set up my email account in Outlook Express?
To check your mail using Outlook Express (version 6), you will need to take the following steps (where yourdomain.com is your domain name, and username & password are the username and password supplied to you either by Milestone Web or your Site Administrator):
- Select Tools > Accounts
- Select Add > Mail
- Enter your ‘Display name’
- Enter your email address, ie email@your domain.com
- For both incoming and outgoing servers, enter mail.yourdomain.com
- For your account name, enter username@yourdomain.com
- For your password, enter your password
- Click finish
- Select the account you have just created and click Properties
- Give the account a memorable and appropriate name
- Select the servers tag at the top
- Tick ‘My server requires authentication’ in the Outgoing Mail Server section.
- Click OK
- Click close.
- Congratulations, your account is set up and ready to send and receive emails.
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To check your mail using Outlook (version 2003 [11]), you will need to take the following steps (where yourdomain.com is your domain name, and username & password are the username and password supplied to you either by Milestone Web or your Site Administrator):
- Select Tools > Email Accounts
- Select Add a new email account
- Select POP3
- Enter your name and email address (ie. youremail@yourdomain.com)
- For both incoming and outgoing mail servers, enter mail.yourdomain.com
- For username enter username@yourdomain.com
- For password enter your password
- Select More Settings
- Give the account a memorable and appropriate name
- Select the outgoing server tag at the top
- Tick ‘My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication’ – the radio button ‘Use same settings as my incoming mail server’ should already be selected.
- Click OK
- Click Next
- Click Finish
- Congratulations, your account is set up and ready to send and receive emails.
^ back to top. How do I access my email via webmail?
To access your emails via webmail, go to www.yourdomain/squirrelmail/ (where yourdomain.com is your domain name) and enter your username and password in the inputs on screen. Once you are logged in to webmail, you can then compose, delete, send and receive emails as you normally would. Those emails that you don’t delete can be downloaded into your email client (Outlook etc) the next time you choose to do so. Always remember to log out afterwards.
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What is email forwarding?
Email forwarding allows you to forward any emails sent to your domain name to an existing account.
For example, if you set up myemail@yourdomain.com you can forward all email sent to this address to your existing email address, such as myemail@milestonenet.com
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How do I set up email forwarding?
- Log in to your user administration area.
- Select Email Manager from the left hand menu
- Select forward from the menu at the top
- Click edit
- Enter the address that you wish to forward emails to.
- Click save
- Always remember to log out afterwards.
^ back to top. How do I alter the settings for Spam Filtering?
- Log in to your user administration area.
- Select Spam Filtering from the left hand menu.
- Choose your preferred spam filter setting.
- If you are unsure about which setting to choose, refer to the Help section via the left hand menu.
- Always remember to log out afterwards.
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