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Setting up Windows Mail

These steps show the correct settings for Windows Mail, the e-mail software included with Windows Vista, to retrieve mail from Korax e-mail accounts.

Follow these steps

  1. Create an e-mail account using Control Panel. The e-mail account will store your incoming mail. Make a note of the e-mail account password provided to you when you create the account.

  2. Start Windows Mail, and click the "Tools" menu item. Select "Accounts". The "Internet accounts" window appears. The Internet Accounts window

  3. Click the "Add" button in the upper right corner of the window. The "Add Account" window appears. Select "E-mail Account", and click "Next". Adding an e-mail account

  4. Enter your name as you would like it to appear in the "From" field of the e-mail messages you send. Click "Next". Adding an e-mail account

  5. Enter the e-mail address of the account you created in step one, and click "Next". Adding an e-mail account

  6. In the "Incoming mail server" field, enter your domain name preceded by "mail.", such as mail.example.com. In the "Outgoing mail server" field, enter your Internet service provider's outgoing (SMTP) mail server name, or, if you prefer to use Korax' mail server for outgoing mail, enter your domain name preceded by "mail.", such as mail.example.com.

    If you want to use Korax' mail server for outgoing mail, check the box marked "Outgoing server requires authentication". You will also have to perform additional steps after you create the account. These steps appear at the end of this procedure.

    Click "Next". Adding an e-mail account

  7. In the "E-mail username" field, enter the e-mail address of the account you created in step one. In the "Password" field, enter the e-mail account password that was given to you when you created the e-mail account. Check "Remember password" if you don't want to be prompted to enter your password each time you check for new mail. Click "Next". Adding an e-mail account

  8. On the final screen, click "Finish" to save your new e-mail account. Adding an e-mail account

Editing your new e-mail account to use Korax' outgoing mail server

If you want to use Korax' outgoing mail server, instead of your ISP's mail server, you will need to perform the following additional steps.
  1. In the "Internet Accounts" window, select the account you just created, and click the "Properties" button. The "Properties" window appears.

  2. Click the "Advanced" tab.

  3. Under "Server Port Numbers", in the field labeled "Outgoing mail (SMTP)", type the number 587. Internet accounts properties

  4. Optional, but recommended: To protect the privacy of your email account username, password, and email messages as they travel over the Internet between your computer and the mail server, we strongly recommend enabling SSL encryption as follows:
    1. Check both boxes marked "This server requires a secure connection (SSL)".
    2. Change "Outgoing mail (SMTP)" to port 465.
    3. Change "Incoming mail (POP3)" to port 995.

    Note: if your email software displays a certificate name mismatch warning when you connect, click the Servers tab and change the incoming and outgoing server names to mail.korax.net.

  5. Click "OK".

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