email connections

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email connections

• Fred Marshall
• Coastal Computers Networks
• BBCC March 9, 2004

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Elements of email

• Someone sends it
• A computer saves it for you (a server)
• You retrieve it from the server
• You receive it from your internet service
  provider (ISP)

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Simple email diagram-sending mail

mail.centurytel.net
mail.willapabay.org
fmarshall_at_centurytel.net
joe_at_willapabay.org
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Simple email diagram- receiving mail -

mail.centurytel.net
mail.willapabay.org
joe_at_willapabay.org
fmarshall_at_acm.org (could be any address)
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Simple email process

• Someone sends a mail via the server theyre
  connected to
• The message travels over the internet
• The message arrives at your mail server
• You retrieve the message from your server

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email diagram- receiving mail, multiple servers-

mail.centurytel.net
mail.willapabay.org
mail.acm.org
Tojoe_at_acm.org
joe_at_willapabay.org
Tojoe_at_willapabay.org
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Setting Up a New Outlook Express Account

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New Account - Outlook Express

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New Account - Outlook Express

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New Account - Outlook Express

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New Account - Outlook Express

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New Account - Outlook Express

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New Account - Outlook Express

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New Account - Outlook Express

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Setting up Outlook Express

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Setting up Outlook Express

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Setting up Outlook Express

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Setting up Outlook Express

• At the General Tab
• You can use any Name that you want
• You can use any email address that you want
• You can use any reply to address that you want
• These are what people will see

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Setting up Outlook Express

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Setting up Outlook Express

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Setting up Outlook Express

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Setting up Outlook Express

• At the Servers Tab
• The Incoming server is for your ISP
• e.g. mail.willapabay.org
• The Outgoing server is for your ISP
• e.g. mail.willapabay.org
• The account name is the account name your ISP has
  given you
• e.g. joe or joe_at_willapabay.org
• IT MAY NEED TO BE ONE OR THE OTHER!!
• The password is the password your ISP has given
  you
• e.g. prskply599

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Setting up Outlook Express- more than one
incoming server

• At the Servers Tab for an account that is not
  your ISP
• The Incoming server is for this Account / Server
• e.g. pop.business.earthlink.net
• The Outgoing server is still for your ISP!!!!
• e.g. mail.willapabay.org
• The account name is the account name your ISP has
  given you
• e.g. fred_at_mission-systems-inc.com
• The password is the password your external server
  has given you
• e.g. prskply599

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Current ISP Issues

• PUD to ReachOne
• Recommendation
• Point to the new servers
• mail.reachone.com
• Use your full account name
• joe_at_willapabay.org

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Current ISP Issues

• Pacifier to Infinity Internet
• Recommendation
• Point to the new servers
• mail.iinet.com
• Use your full account name
• joe_at_pacifier.com

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Fred MarshallCoastal Computers
NetworksIlwaco, WA(360) 642-2073