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Microsoft Outlook Express 4 eMail

Please see our Important Notice, we recommend that you read it before you proceed.

Setting up an Email Account.

Click on Tools.

Click on Accounts.

Click on the Mail tab, this should be empty as the screen shot above.

Click on the Add button and then the Mail option.

Type your full name into the text box and click Next.

Type your email address into the text box in the form:
username@hostname.demon.co.uk, This must all be in lower case.

See our Names & Password Conventions guide.

Click Next.

Type in the email server addresses.
In the Incoming mail (POP3..) text box type pop3.demon.co.uk
In the Outgoing mail (SMTP)… text box type post.demon.co.uk
These must be in lower case. Click Next.

In the text box marked POP account name type your Demon hostname.
In the text box marked Password type your login or POP3 password.

See our Names & Password Conventions guide.

Click Next.

In here type a name for the account, we suggest Demon Internet Mail, but it can be anything you want here.
Click Next.

Click Connect using my phone line, and in the drop down list select the  our Dial-up Networking connection.

Click Next.

That completes the mail setup for Outlook Express.
Click Finish.

At this point, if you are not using a domain name, you can click Close and test your new account by clicking on Send and Receive,
or if you wish to set up a news account, click here.

If you have registered a domain name, make sure the Demon account is highlighted and click Properties.

Your Domain Email address should be the email address you want replies sent to. You only need to enter an address here if the reply to address is different to the email address in the field above, if it is the same address you can leave this field blank.

To set up a news account click here.

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