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Email settings for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007
Warning:
Trying to rush through these settings will inevitably result in
mistakes which means you will have to go back over them each time until
the settings are right. Please take your time and be meticulous in
getting every character correct, it will save you a lot of frustration!
Most
common mistakes are missing a dot, putting an @ symbol instead of a
dot, putting in spaces or putting a capital instead of a lowercase
letter.
Field number '6' in red for the 'Outgoing mail server' needs to be provided by your broadband company (e.g. mail.bigpond.com)
Please choose either A or B
or
a) Steps for setting up a brand new email account address:
1) Open up Microsoft Office Outlook on your computer.
2) Go to Tools> Account Settings...
3) Click on the 'New' button
4) Leave 'Microsoft Exchange, POP3, IMAP, or HTTP' selected and click 'Next'
5) Tick off the check box at the bottom to 'Manually configure server settings' and click 'Next'
6) Leave'Internet E-mail' selected and click 'Next'
7) Fill in the information provided to you by Graphics Online for
the fields 1-6 (these are numbered accordingly) and then click on the
'More Settings...' button
8) Fill in the information for the fields numbered 7 and 8 and
then click on each tab (General, Outgoing Server, Connection, and
Advanced) and check the information is filled in correctly as shown in
the screen shots below. Take notice of the check boxes and make sure
that each box that is supposed to be 'ticked' actually is.
9) Click 'OK' and then you will be brought to a final screen where you click 'Finish' and your done.
10) Click 'Send and Receive' to see if it is receiving OK.
If it does not work then repeat the process above checking each entry meticulously
b) Steps for editing an email address which is partly set up in order to get it working:
1) Open up Microsoft Office Outlook on your computer.
2) Go to Tools> Account Settings...
3) Select the account you would like to modify settings for and click the 'Change...' button
4) Fill in the information provided to you by Graphics Online for the
fields 1-6 (these are numbered accordingly) and then click on the 'More
Settings...' button
5) Fill in the information for the fields numbered 7 and 8 and then
click on each tab (General, Outgoing Server, Connection, and Advanced)
and check the information is filled in correctly as shown in the screen
shots below. Take notice of the check boxes and make sure that each box
that is supposed to be 'ticked' actually is.
6) Click 'OK' and then you will be brought to a final screen where you click 'Finish' and your done.
7) Click 'Send and Receive' to see if it is receiving OK.
If it does not work then repeat the process above checking each entry meticulously |