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5.4 E-mail
Setting up an E-mail Account
Before you set up your Internet e-mail account, please ensure that you have the
necessary information from your e-mail service provider. The kind of information you’ll
need to have ready is tabulated below. Use this as a check-list before proceeding with
the account set-up.
Setting Description
User name Usually the rst part of your e-mail address, which appears before the “at” sign (@). For
some e-mail service providers, the full e-mail address is used as the user name.
Password Choose a strong password. You will have the option to save your password, so that
you do not need to enter it each time you connect to your e-mail server.
Domain The domain name. This may not always be required.
Server type The type of e-mail server that hosts your mailbox (POP3 or IMAP4).
Account name A friendly name for this account (e.g. “My Webmail”). You must use a different name for
each account that you set up.
Network The type of network your e-mail server connects to (e.g. Work or The Internet).
Incoming mail server The name of your e-mail server (POP3 or IMAP4).
Require SSL connection Select this to ensure you always receive e-mail for this account using an SSL
connection. This enables you to receive personal information more securely. Please
note that if you select this and your ISP does not support an SSL connection, you will
not be able to connect to receive e-mail.
Outgoing mail server The name of your outgoing e-mail server (SMTP).
Outgoing server
requires authentication
Your outgoing e-mail server (SMTP) may require authentication. Note: unless otherwise
specied in the next section, your previously given user name and password will be
used for authenticating against the outgoing e-mail server.
Outgoing server settings Your outgoing e-mail server may require different authentication settings than your
incoming e-mail server.
Use different user name
for outgoing server
A checkbox that lets you enter separate settings for your outgoing e-mail server.
User name Your user name for the outgoing e-mail server.