Outlook Express

Outlook Express Email Tutorial

Creating a New Email Account
Making Changes to an already Existing Email Account

Creating a New Email Account

Open the Outlook Express Mail program
Click on TOOLS.


Choose Accounts



From the mail tab, click ADD.
Choose Mail


Enter your name
Click Next


Enter your email address
Click Next


Choose the type of email account
Enter the incoming and outgoing server your provider has given you
Click Next

Click Next


Enter your account name- this is usually your full email address
Enter your email account password
Click Next


Click Finish

Making Changes to an already existing email account

Open the Outlook Express Mail program
Click on TOOLS.


Choose Accounts


From the mail tab, choose the email address
Click Properties


Under Servers, you can make changes to:
Your incoming and outgoing servers
The account and password information
and the authentication




Under Advanced, you can make changes to:
Your incoming and outgoing server ports and SSL usage
The length of time before a time out occurs
and if you want to leave a copy of the message on the server