email set-up on wireless laptop

whizzkid_3

hi, can some one give me some advice please?

i have a new wireless laptop and i am trying to set up its windows mail account .does the email account relate to my desktop computer or is that completely seperate in which case what do i enter when it asks for ingoing and outgoing server - POP3 seems to be the ingoing one but i have no idea what to put in the other section .

cheers

chuckles1066

whizzkid wrote: »

hi, can some one give me some advice please?

i have a new wireless laptop and i am trying to set up its windows mail account .does the email account relate to my desktop computer or is that completely seperate in which case what do i enter when it asks for ingoing and outgoing server - POP3 seems to be the ingoing one but i have no idea what to put in the other section .

cheers

Who is your email account with?

It almost always begings with smtp.....so for example smtp.blueyonder.co.uk

Eagle15

Email accounts do not relate to one PC. In fact any PC in the world (that has access to the internet) can be set-up to access any email account, assuming that the user knows the account name and password. Outgoing messages usually use an SMTP server. If you can access your email from your desktop pc look at the account settings on the desktop email and then copy them to the laptop. Dependant upon the type of email client you use you may need to consider the fact that messages might get downloaded onto one of the PCs and not therefore available on the other.

whizzkid_3

so this means that i just have to use the same email account as on my desktop ?
is it not possible to start a separate one which still uses windows mail ?

espresso

whizzkid wrote: »

so this means that i just have to use the same email account as on my desktop ?

If you want to send/receive e-mails to/from that account on your new PC.

is it not possible to start a separate one which still uses windows mail ?

Yes if you want a new e-mail account, the choice is yours.

whizzkid_3

so if i wanted another orange/wanadoo email account i need to phone/email them and ask for another email address?

i know i can get a google mail account etc, i just thought it made more sense to have another isp one .

espresso

whizzkid wrote: »

so if i wanted another orange/wanadoo email account i need to phone/email them and ask for another email address?

i know i can get a google mail account etc, i just thought it made more sense to have another isp one .

Actually it makes much more sense to use ISP independent e-mail accounts!

chuckles1066

espresso wrote: »

Actually it makes much more sense to use ISP independent e-mail accounts!

Yes it does, I have dozens of different email addresses with the likes of Tiscali, Webtribe, Bluebottle and Budweiser......I access them all via MailWasher so it's a one-click operation to check all the accounts.

Definitely useful if you're into sending for freebies, you can track which merchants are harvesting email addresses and which ones are genuine