Email Client Setup

Before you can send/receive/manage emails you may be required to do some initial client setup.

Desktop based clients like thunderbird/outlook express will require setting up before you can use them for sending and receiving email. For this reason they are not the preferred client for accessing email when you are in a different location unless you are using them on your own laptop.

However they are the preferred method when using them from home based/office based computers (including laptops).

Regardless of the client the information that you need to setup the client is basically the same and consists of:

SMTP server- This sever is used to send email.
POP3 or Imap4 server-This server is used to receive email.
Account name - This is your login name to receive email.
Account password -This is your login password to receive email.
Email Address- This is used to set the from address when sending email

These details will be provided by your email provider/ISP and some you will need to decide yourself (e.g. password, email address and Account name). The screen shot below shows how 1and1.co.uk provides these details.

You should notice that to send email using SMTP you require authentication this uses the same name/password combination as for receiving (see SMTP overview for more details).

To illustrate the process here is a video on how to setup Outlook Express.

Webmail Setup

If you use a web browser to access your email then you don't need to worry about sending/receiving protocols and setup. All you need is the URL (web address) used to access your mail which you can usually access from your email providers website.

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