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Outlook Express
Setup
Multiple Identities
If all your email addresses feeding into
the same place doesn't bother you, and you clicked the
"Auto-Config Outlook Express" button in cPanel beside
each one, then you're done! If, on the other hand,
you want to separate your business email from your
personal, or if you want to set up email addresses for
the whole family on your domain, (so they can advertise
for you when they email someone instead of for
RoadRunner!), you'll want to set up different
"identities" in OE and assign those varying email
addresses to them.
In the "File" pull-down menu, go to
"Identities", then "Add New Identity". The New
Identity box comes up and asks for a name. This
can be anything you want, (Joe, Suzy, Personal,
Business, etc); it's just a plain English name for you
to recognize that "identity" by. A word of caution
here: unless there's a need I'd stay away from passwords
here, mainly because if someone forgets theirs, they are
not getting back into that identity. When you
click OK, you'll be prompted to switch to that identity.
Click "OK". Now you get to cancel the useless
wizard again, and then you'll be aghast to see that all
the changes you made above to Outlook Express are gone!
Yep. Unbelievable as it seems, there is no "Apply
Changes to All Identities" button. You have to go
through all the steps above with each identity.
Got that done? Great! Now
you're ready to manually set up the various email
accounts that can't be automatically configured, (because
they're not in the "main" identity).
Manual Configuration of
Accounts
In the Identity you want to assign the
email account to, click on the "Tools" pull-down menu
and select "Accounts". This brings up
the "Internet Accounts" box you see below. Make
sure you're on the "Mail" tab, click the "Add" button,
then select "Mail".
This time we'll actually use the wizard that comes up!
In the first box that appears, type your name (or your
company name) as you would like it to appear in the
"from" field when you send someone an email. In the next
box, fill in the full email address for this account
(including the "@yourdomain.com". You'll be asked
for this 4 more times, so to save yourself some time I
would highlight the full address, right-click on it and
copy it into memory.)
The next box is for
your email server information (see below). The
name for both your POP3 and SMTP servers is the same,
i.e., "mail.yourdomain.com", with "yourdomain.com" being
replaced with your actual domain name. Example:
mail.roses.net
When you click next this time, you'll be asked again for
your email address. If you copied it into memory,
you can just right-click here and "paste". Then
type in the password for this account and check the
"Remember Password" check box.
When you're done, the wizard will close,
leaving you right back at the "Internet Accounts"
window. You should see the mail account we just
created, and it should already be highlighted. Now
click on the "Properties" button to the right.
That will take you to the "properties box" of this
account, which has 5 notebook tabs at the top. The
only thing you need to check on the "General" tab is
that the email address is complete, then click on the
"Servers" tab. That page should look like the
example below except, of course, that your information
would be substituted.
Next, check the final box on the page, "My server
requires authentication". When you do, the
"Settings" button will light up, and you can click on
it. That brings up the final box as seen below.
Select the "Log on using" radio button, and fill in (or
paste in) you're full email address yet again!
(See? I told ya'!). Enter your password,
check the "Remember Password" checkbox, and believe it
or not, you're done! click "OK" on the first two
boxes, and "Close" on the last. Test the account
to make sure everything is right. Address an email
to this account, and click the hit "Send/Recieve" button
on the toolbar. Wait 60 seconds, and hit "Send/Recieve"
again. If it's all good, you should get your email
right back.
To set up multiple accounts in multiple identities,
repeat these tasks ad nauseum!
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