Microsoft Outlook Express: Setup
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• Open Microsoft Outlook Express
• Select Tools from the bar along the top of your screen
• Select Accounts… from the Tools pop-up menu
• Click on the Add button along the right-hand side of the Internet Accounts window
• Select Mail from the pop-up menu

  You will get an Internet Connection Wizard open. Read carefully and follow the instructions. We will give you any information that you need to fill in. When all the necessary information is filled in on each screen, click on the Next button.

• Under the E-mail Server Names window, fill in…
  • Incoming mail = pop1.sgci.com
  • Outgoing mail = mail1.sgci.com

• Under the Internet Mail Logon window…
  • Choose Log on using and type…
  • POP account name = your username (the name that you use to connect to Spectrum)
  • Password = the password that you use to connect to Spectrum (it must be typed exactly, i.e. use capital and lowercase as necessary)

• Under Choose Connection type, choose Connect using phone line
• Under Dial-Up Connection, choose Use an existing dial-up connection and choose the connection that you use to connect to Spectrum (i.e. Spectrum Connection)

Click on the Finish button and close the Internet Accounts window.To get or send your e-mail, click on the Send and Receive button at the top of the Outlook Express window. Your new messages will be in your Inbox.To write a new message, click on the Compose Message button. Enter the e-mail address of the person you are sending e-mail to in the To: field and the subject of your e-mail in the Subject: field. Type the main body of your message in the large white box at the bottom of that window. When you are done with that e-mail, click on the Send button in the top left corner. When you are done writing all of your e-mail messages, click on the Send and Receive button.

Other E-mail support:

• Microsoft Outlook Express - Microsoft's official technical support website