Outlook Express 5 - Configuring an existing account (Macintosh)

  1. Outlook Express accounts are displayed by clicking Tools then Accounts; the Accounts window (below) opens showing all configurable accounts, click the Mail tab to show the e-mail accounts configured on this computer (to create a new account or if the Connection Wizard starts, click here)
  2. Select the account you want to configure and click Edit

  3. In the Edit Account window (below), the Account name is the name of the icon in the previous Accounts window (it can be called anything)
  4. Under Personal information, your Name shows up when somebody downloads e-mail from you and your E-mail address is in the form username@mid-mo.net
  5. Under Receiving mail, your Account ID is your username, the server name is mail.mid-mo.net and the password is your password (if your uncheck the Save password box, you will have to enter the password every time you login)
  6. Under Sending mail, the SMTP server is mail.mid-mo.net
    * If you have a domain name with us, both server names are mail.yourdomain.whatever

  7. Click OK and close the Accounts window
  8. To check your settings, e-mail yourself a message and then reply to that same message
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