Many computer users use webmail to check their emails, that is, they visit a website address, login and send and receive messages. Using this method you can check mail from anywhere with any pc and it wont be lost if you pc breaks down. But what if you have a few different email addresses as many do?
Checking a few different email accounts can be a bit cumbersome, you have to visit different addresses, login each time, remember different passwords and this all takes time. With Outlook, Outlook Express and Windows Mail for Vista you can add all your email accounts to one program and it will automatically go and get all your email at the same time.
Heres how to add email addresses to Outlook Express. Instructions are similar for Windows Mail and Outlook:
- Open Outlook Express and go to ‘Tools - Accounts - Add - Mail’.
- Display Name is the name you wish to be identified by.
- Email Address is the full email address we wish to add.
- Incoming Mail & Outgoing Mail settings are usually the same and can be found from your internet service provider, eg - for eircom email addresses its mail1.eircom.net or webmail.eircom.net. For addresses linked to your website its usually in the form mail.yoursite.com.
- Account Name is usually your email address again or the first part of it before the @.
- Password is the password you used when signing up for the email account.
- Finally click Finish and that should do the trick. Click Send/Receive to check for new messages.
For people with a Hotmail account, it can’t be used with Outlook Express so you’ll have to stick with webmail for that. People with Gmail or Yahoo accounts may have to login to their webmail and go to the settings/options section to allow email to be downloaded.
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