Setting Up A New Email Account

Entourage - Mac OS X

This guide describes the steps for setting up a new email aacount in Entourage for Mac OS X, part of the Miscrosoft Office Suite for Mac.

Start up Entourage by clicking it's icon in the dock or by finding the application on your hard drive, navigate to the menu bar at the top of the screen and select "Tools" followed by "Accounts".

A new window appears. Select New 'Mail...' as illustrated below:

Another new window appears and Entourage asks you for your name. This is the name that other people see when you send an email. Enter whatever you like into the box and click the right arrow.

Entourage now asks you for your email address. If you have just purchased a domain name with a hosting package from George Steel, it's possible you will be setting up your 'Catch All' account. If so, you can choose anything you like before the @ symbol but remember to use only letters, numbers and hyphen; no spaces or any other characters are allowed.

You must set up two mail servers, one to receive mail and one to send your emails. For all George Steel accounts, the incoming mail server should be set to your domain name (without the 'www') and the server type is of the POP variety. In the next step, you will add a username and password to use with the incoming mail server. You can use the same setting for the outgoing mail server or use the SMTP (Outgoing mail) server that your ISP provides for customer use, for example, the Freeserve SMTP server is smtp.freeserve.net

The username and password for your email account will have been given to you already. Usernames and passwords are case-sensitive so make sure you type in these details exactly as they appear on your invoice or welcome email.

If you are setting up your catch all email account, your username will normally be your domain name but with the dots replaced by hyphen, for example, mydomain-com or mydomain-co-uk. If the account is an additional dedicated mailbox, your username will be prefixed with the name for that mailbox, for example, jenny-mydomain-com

Finally, give the account a recognisable name so that you can identify it amongst other accounts on your computer such as "The mydomain.com Catch-All Account". Tick the box labelled "Include this account in my Send & Receive All schedule" and click the finish button.

You will now be able to click the "Send And Receive All" button and pick up your mail.