Setting Up A New Email Account

Outlook Express / Outlook - Microsoft Windows

Start up Outlook Express by clicking it's shortcut icon on the desktop or by finding the application under your 'Start' menu, navigate to the menu bar at the top of the screen and select "Tools" followed by "Accounts".

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

The "Internet Connection Wizard" appears and 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 "Next".

The "Internet Connection Wizard" 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. It is not the username and password provided by your ISP for connecting to the Internet, it is the details provided by George Steel. 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

Your Email account is now ready to use. Click the "Finish" button and close the "Accounts" window.