Email - how do I connect to my new email account?

This document will walk you through the process of accessing and configuring your EllensburgWeb.com email:

1. Change your password. Your temporary password should already have been provided to you, and it must be changed immediately.
2. Web access to your email account through a web browser.
3. Microsoft Outlook configuration to send and receive email through this account.
4. Microsoft Outlook default email account configuration to use this account as your default account for sending and receiving email.

Change your password!

The very first thing you should do is change your password.

1. Point your Internet browser to http://email.[your domain name].
2. Enter your email mailbox name (the part of your email address before the @), your temporary password, and click the Login button.
3. From the Settings menu, click Personal Settings.
4. Enter your temporary password, a new password of your choice, confirm that password by entering it a second time, and then click OK. Passwords should be complex; they should be 8 to 12 characters and contain upper case, lower case, and numeric characters.

Accessing your email through a web browser

You may send and receive email through any web browser connected to the Internet. Point your Internet browser to http://email.[your domain name], enter your email mailbox name and password, and click the Login button.

Setting up email access through Microsoft Outlook 2007

You can configure Outlook to automatically check your email account for new mail. To configure Outlook, complete the following steps:

1. Start Outlook.
2. From the Tools menu, select Account Settings, and then click New.
3. On the Choose E-mail Service page, select Microsoft Exchange, POP3, IMAP, or HTTP, then click Next.
4. On the Auto Account Setup page, enter the following:
   Your Name: Enter the name to be displayed on your email.
   Email Address: Enter your email address.
   Password: Enter the new password you created for your email account. If you have not changed your temporary password, complete the instructions above before you continue.
   Retype Password: Enter your password again.
   At the bottom of the page, select Manually configure server settings or additional server types, and then click Next.
5. On the Choose E-mail Service page, select Internet E-mail, and then click Next.
6. On the Internet E-mail Settings page, enter (or confirm) your email account information as follows:
   Your Name: Enter your first and last name.
   E-mail Address: Enter your email address.
   Account Type: POP3.
   Incoming mail server: pop.secureserver.net.
   Outgoing mail server (SMTP): smtpout.secureserver.net.
   User Name: Your full email address.
   Password: The password you created for your email account.
7. Select the Remember password checkbox so each time Outlook synchronizes it will not prompt you for a password, and then click More Settings.
8. Click on the General tab.
   Mail Account: EllensburgWeb.com (or your email address if you prefer).
   Other User Information, Organization: enter your organization’s name.
   Other User Information, Reply Email: enter your email address.
9. IMPORTANT! Click on the Outgoing Server tab. Check My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication and select Use same settings as my incoming mail server.
10. Click on the Advanced tab.
    Incoming server (POP3): 110
    Outgoing server (SMTP): One of the following: 25, 80, 3535
    Delivery: Make sure the Leave a copy of messages on the server checkbox is NOT checked.
11. Click OK.
12. Click Test Account Settings. Microsoft will send itself a message to test your incoming and outgoing capabilities.
13. Once the test is successful, click Next, then click Finish, and then click Close.
14. Select Options from the Tools menu.
15. Click the Mail Setup tab.
16. Check the box next to Send immediately when connected.
17. Click the Send/Receive button. Under Setting for group “All Accounts”, check the box next to Schedule an automatic send/receive every, and enter 5 or 10 minutes.
18. Click Close and then click OK.

Change your outgoing email account

If you wish to use this email account as the default account through which your email is sent, follow these steps:

1. Start Outlook.
2. Select Account Settings from the Tools menu.
3. Select the email address you wish to send new email message through and click the Set as Default button.
4. Click Close.

Regardless of which account you have set as you default, you can always change the account through which an email is sent by selecting the account in the Account dropdown menu from within a new message.