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We
recommend using Outlook Express for your email
however there are other free programs available such as Pegasus.
Their setup however is very similar to Outlook Express
Outlook
Express is installed by default on almost every version of
Windows. You need to configure it before you use it.
To
start, open Outlook Express from the START menu.
In the Menu Bar click on Tools and then Accounts
This
will open this window . Note that you may have existing accounts
from other ISPs in here. You can delete them if you are no longer
using them.
Click
the Add button and select Mail to start to add a
new account for sportshorse.net email.
This
window should now appear.
Firstly
you need to enter your full name - this is what appears in the
From: box of an email that is received from you.
Click
Next
In
this window you enter your full email address - don't make
any mistakes because this is the email address that is replied
to when someone tries to reply to an email that you sent to them!
REMEMBER
that we use @sportshorse.net and not @smartmail.co.uk so double check
your spelling.
Click
Next
sportshorse.net
provides POP3 email so now enter the details of the Incoming
and Outgoing mail servers.
The
name for the POP3 server (this is the server that stores
your email ready for you to collect it) is called pop3.sportshorse.net
and the SMTP server (this is the server that sends email
to other people for you) is called smtp.sportshorse.net.
Remember
that ALL email must be sent out through our SMTP server,
so even if you are collecting email from another POP3 server,
you STILL send out through our SMTP server.
Click
Next
The
account name is the same as your dialup username and is also your
email address (see note below) and so enter this and your password.
Check the Remember Password box to save having to enter your password
every time you check your email.
Click
Next.
Note:
sportshorse.net allows you to setup multiple Email ALIASES as well
as multiple Email Accounts (5 of them).
An
alias is simply another identity or email address that results
in email being sent to the same Mailbox - so email sent to fred@sportshorse.net,
dave@sportshorse.net and mary@sportshorse.net would all be sent to the your_name@sportshorse.net
mailbox if they were setup as aliases. You would then set up filters
in Outlook Express to send the email to different folders.
You
could also set up additional Mailboxes if you wanted different
family members to each have their own email address. In this case
email sent to fred@sportshorse.net would go to his mailbox, email sent
to dave@sportshorse.net would go to his and mary@sportshorse.net would go to hers
- you would set up a new Mail Account in Outlook Express for each
person.
You
have now created the email account in Outlook Express so now click
Finish.
You
now need to finish off the configuration so click on Tools
and Accounts again and select the Account which is called
pop3.smartemail.co.uk and using the right hand mouse button select
Properties.
Change
the name to sportshorse.net and then click on the Connection tab.
Use
the drop down menu to select the sportshorse.net dialup account that you
previously created.
Finally
click OK and return to the main windows of Outlook Express.
Click
Send & Receive and if you have set everything up correctly
you should get no errors. Try sending yourself and email
to test that everything is working. You can also send an email
to support@sportshorse.net and we will respond confirming that your email
is working and correctly setup.
*
You must be connected to sporthorse.net to access your @sporthorse.net
email and check you mail at least once every 30 days to maintain
the service.
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