Configuring your email client: Outlook 2003

This is a brief tutorial designed to help you set up your email in Outlook 2003, when you host your site with Famous Web. If you have questions, please contact us.

1. Open Outlook 2003.
2. Click the 'Tools' menu, and select 'E-mail Accounts'.

   
    

3. Click 'Add a new e-mail account' and then click 'Next'.

   

    

4. Select POP3 or IMAP and click 'Next'.
   NOTE: (mt) Media Temple servers support POP3 and IMAP.

   

    

5. - Enter 'Your Name' as you want it to appear.
   - Enter your full email address john [at] example [dot] com. (Replace 'john' with your username, and replace example.com with your domain.) in the 'Email address:' field.
   - Enter your username john [at] example [dot] com'(Replace 'john' with your username, and replace example.com with your domain.) in the 'Account name:' field.
   - Enter your email password in the 'Password' field.
   - Enter 'mail.example.com' (Replace example.com with your domain.) in the 'Incoming mail (POP3, IMAP) server:' field.
   - Enter 'mail.example.com' (Replace example.com with your domain.) in the 'Outgoing mail (SMTP) server:' field.

   

    

6. - Click on 'More Settings...'
   - Click on the 'Outgoing Server' tab.
   - Check 'My outgoing server (SMTP) Requires Authentication'.
   - Make sure 'Use same setting as my incoming mail server' is also checked.
   - Click on 'OK'.

   

    

7. Click the 'Test Account Settings' button and you should see all items with green check marks. Click the 'close' Button to close the test window.

   
    

8. Click 'Next' to save your settings.
    
9. Congratulations you have finished the setup of your email account, Click 'Finish' to close the setup wizard.