Microsoft Outlook Express Setup

If you are launching Outlook Express for the first time: The Internet Connection Wizard will open as shown below.

If the wizard does not start, open the Tools menu and go to Accounts. Click the Add button, then Mail... *note: if there are old inactive accounts still listed, you may want to delete them as they will likely show an error when you "send and receive" later.*

Enter your name as you'd like recipients of your email to see it. Click Next.

Enter the email address you were provided by HREC / CACHE. Click Next.

Select the account type you would like to use, either POP3 or IMAP. For more information on which account type to use, see our POP vs. IMAP page. Enter mail.hrec.coop as both the Incoming mail and Outgoing mail (SMTP) server. Click Next.

Enter your full email address as the Account name, and the password (unless you would like to be prompted to enter the password every time your mail is checked). Click Next.

At this point, the Internet Connection Wizard will exit, but we are not quite finished configuring the account. Open the Tools menu and go to Accounts.

Double-click the account you just created to open it's Properties page.

Click on the Servers tab. At the bottom of that tab click the checkbox labeled My server requires authentication.The default setting is correct, which is Use same settings as my incoming mail server. You can verify by clicking Settings...

Click on the Advanced tab. Change the Outgoing mail (SMTP) server to port number 587. If using POP and more than one computer, you may want to change the Delivery options under the Advanced tab. Check Leave a copy of messages on server for a number of days. This way the messages will still be on the server when the second computer checks for new mail. When done, click OK.

Close the Accounts window. You are now ready to use Outlook Express with your HREC/ CACHE email account.

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