Outlook Express New Account

Open Outlook Express. It looks like an envelope and has 2 arrows wrapping around it. It may be on the taskbar down around the Start button, or on the desktop. If not, Click START - PROGRAMS - OUTLOOK EXPRESS. Go up to the toolbar and Click TOOLS Slide down the dropdown menu and Click ACCOUNTS. In the Internet accounts window Click the MAIL tab. If there are names in there you do not want, highlight and click REMOVE & YES. (To repair an existing acount - highlight it and click PROPERTIES) To  install a new e-mail account, Click on ADD - then MAIL -  then the name you want people to see when you send e-mail - Click NEXT - Type your e-mail address  Ex.  elvis@pvns.net  (lower case is best) Organization and reply address can be blank - CHECK the little square box - Click APPLY - then SERVERS - the first little box should say POP3 - the next is incoming mail and you type pop3.pvns.net  -  under outgoing - type smtp.pvns.net -  The next box is for your e-mail user name this is the part of your e-mail address before the @  (Ex. elvis) In the next box carefully type your password and CHECK remember password (if you wish to) - do not check the other two boxes - Click APPLY - then CONNECTIONS - now CHECK "always connect to this account using" and select PVNS or any available - now Click APPLY & OK Now you are back in Internet Accounts - You probably have pop3 as your account name now. Click on it to highlight it. Then Click PROPERTIES and type in the name you want in the top bar to replace pop3. (Ex  Elvis) - CHECK include this account when receiving mail or synchronizing, then APPLY then OK
The first account created will be the Default account. It should have elvis as account name and Mail (default) under Connection is should say Dial up PVNS To add additional accounts- 
Go to TOOLS - ACCOUNTS - MAIL - ADD - MAIL - and follow thru by adding new info in place of what is there and adding server info etc. If you wish to use our News Groups, see below for instructions.
 

INSTALL OUTLOOK EXPRESS ICON ON DESKTOP

Double click  MY COMPUTER
Double click C:drive
Double click  PROGRAM FILES FOLDER
Double click  OUTLOOK EXPRESS FOLDER
RIGHT click the  file msimm
Pick send to on the menu
Click DESKTOP as the shortcut
That's it. When you close out all the windows it will be on your desktop.

SETTING  MAIL  RULES

If you have more than one e-mail account and want mail separated to different folders, then you need to set up mail rules. These rules are useful for many things such as blocking out mail with certain words etc. I’ll show you how to separate your e-mail accounts and you can see how the rules work.

 Click TOOLS  slide down to Message Rules and Click  MAIL You will see the New Mail Rule window. In the top window look at the selections.
CHECK  “Where The Message is From The Specified Account”  Now
notice in the bottom window the word specified is underlined. Click on SPECIFIED and in the box that comes up, click on the name of a mail receiving account that you previously set up. (EXAMPLE) elvis Click OK in that box. Now the name you selected is in the bottom window.
To move incoming elvis mail to your elvis folder CHECK the “Move it to The Specified Folder” box. Then Click on SPECIFIED. If the name does not appear in the folders list, Click NEW FOLDER and add it there.  (Ex) elvis Click OK then OK You should have the same name in both windows now. Any mail addressed to (example) elvis@pvns.net will come to the elvis folder now. Different family members or office folks can have their own folders.

There are many things you can do with message rules. One popular thing is to forward mail. One example is  - if you want your e-mail going to 2 different addresses, say, home and work. Do as above except in the lower window CHECK “Forward to People” and click People, then type the e-mail address you want to forward to. As you can see, there are many things you can do here.
 

SET  UP  NEWS  GROUPS

Outlook Express is also a news reader and we supply you with the Newsgroups. To access Newsgroups. Go to TOOLS then slide down the drop down menu and Click ACCOUNTS. Then Click the NEWS tab. Then the ADD button. Then NEWS. Then type your name. (You might consider using a fictitious or nickname here) Then NEXT. Your e-mail address elvis@pvns.net Then NEXT. Then type news.pvns.net in for the news server.Then NEXT then FINISH. Then CLOSE. Outlook will then ask if you want to download newsgroups. This will take a while as there are thousands of them. You may want to do it later. Have fun with newsgroups but be aware they can be pretty bad. Please don't let children have un-restricted access to newsgroups.
 

PROBLEMS

e-mail causing disconnects

Outlook Express info from Cape Town University