Outlook Express 4.x Setup

  1. Open Outlook Express.
  2. Click the Tools menu and choose Accounts.
  3. Click the Mail tab.
  4. Select the account you want to edit and click Properties.
  5. In the box labelled "Mail account", enter a name for this account. A good idea would be to call it mail.getnet.net.
  6. In the box labelled "Name", enter your full name, or what you want to appear on outgoing messages.
  7. In the box labelled "E-mail address", enter your email address. For example, username@getnet.net.
  8. Place a check in the box next to the words "Include this account when doing a full Send and Receive".

    General Tab

  9. Click the Servers tab.
  10. In the box labelled "Outgoing mail (SMTP)", enter our SMTP server, mail.getnet.net.
  11. In the box labelled "Incoming mail (POP3)", enter our POP3 server, mail.getnet.net.
  12. Select "Log on using" and enter your username in the box labelled "Account name", and your password in the box labelled "Password".

    Servers Tab

  13. Click the Connection tab.
  14. Select "Connect using my phone line".

    Connection Tab

  15. Click the Advanced tab.
  16. In the box labelled "Outgoing mail (SMTP)", enter 25.
  17. In the box labelled "Incoming mail (POP3)", enter 110.

    Advanced Tab

  18. Click OK.
  19. Click Close.