microsoft outlook

rushnowt

Sorry, i know i'm a [STRIKE]bit[/STRIKE] lot dense when it comes to anything remotely techie, but this is doing me head in, I've just installed outlook/excel/word etc etc and its asking me to change my email settings

it want's to know something about POP3 and STML or summat like that and i haven't got the foggiest what i'm supposed to do or put in the boxes

Can anyone please help me any help would be muchly appreciated

Rush x

p.s please be gentle with me, took me 2 attempts to get this on the right board

Bossyboots

Are you at the screen that says Internet e-mail settings (Pop3)?

If not, what screen are you actually on. If you actually have Pop3 e-mail I should be able to talk you through this, at least until someone else comes along that might be more profficient than me.

Rikki

I just went iinto outlook express. Tools......options .......and in the bottom of the box it says default messaging accounts. Click make this my default mail account and ......apply.

rushnowt

Bossyboots wrote:

Are you at the screen that says Internet e-mail settings (Pop3)?

If not, what screen are you actually on. If you actually have Pop3 e-mail I should be able to talk you through this, at least until someone else comes along that might be more profficient than me.

Hi, i think i may have c0cked summat up ? at the mo i'm on internet email settings, questions asked are names, email address, password, incoming and outgoing mail servers, a test button ? does this help or make any sense

Bossyboots

thats sounds right.

Where it says "Your name", that is where you put the name you want to appear on your e-mails when you send them and when you print them out.

Bossyboots

The e-mail address is the address you are trying to set up so you would put (for example)

rushnowt@whatevergoeshere.co.uk

rushnowt

Bossyboots wrote:

The e-mail address is the address you are trying to set up so you would put (for example)

[email="rushnowt@whatevergoeshere.co.uk"]rushnowt@whatevergoeshere.co.uk[/email]

ok done that

Bossyboots

Incoming mail server will be something like mail.whatevergoeshere.co.uk

Outgoing mail server will be something like smtp.whatevergoeshere.co.uk

These are the settings that would have been provided when you set up your e-mail accounts and if you were previously using Outlook Express you would have put this info in there as well.

The user name is the e-mail address again. The password is just that, the password you would use to access your e-mail account.

Once all those are in you can press the test account settings button and see what happens.

I am doing this as if you do have a pop account. As I don't want you to give details on here, this might be trial and error but its a place to start.

rushnowt

Bossyboots wrote:

Incoming mail server will be something like mail.whatevergoeshere.co.uk

Outgoing mail server will be something like smtp.whatevergoeshere.co.uk

These are the settings that would have been provided when you set up your e-mail accounts and if you were previously using Outlook Express you would have put this info in there as well.

The user name is the e-mail address again. The password is just that, the password you would use to access your e-mail account.

Once all those are in you can press the test account settings button and see what happens.

I am doing this as if you do have a pop account. As I don't want you to give details on here, this might be trial and error but its a place to start.

i never got outlook express to work either

so if my email for instance is an hotmail account, would i put hotmail.co.uk into both boxes ?

elvis_bloggs

rushnowt wrote:

........took me 2 attempts to get this on the right board

No way you're gonna sort out your mail settings then.

Bossyboots

rushnowt wrote:

i never got outlook express to work either

so if my email for instance is an hotmail account, would i put hotmail.co.uk into both boxes ?

Yes, but hotmail now charge for collecting your mail through outlook/express so if you didn't have it set up before it probably won't work now but the principal is the same.

For whatevergoeshere, substitute your e-mail provider's name.