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Setting up Outlook to sort multiple accounts
Step 1 of 7

OVERVIEW: First of all, let's get a feel for what we're doing when we say "setting up an email client to download email".
An email client is simply a program that's installed on your computer that works with incoming and outgoing email messages. This program can connect to another computer called an "email server" to send out email, or to receive email from the server. To do this, there are a couple of things that your email client needs to know:
  • Where do I look? You have to tell the email client where to try to connect to the email server.
  • Who do I tell the server is checking or sending? You're going to have to give a username and a password so that the email server knows you're who you say you are, and which account it needs to get the email from, or which account it's going to use to send your email.

Once you've provided your email client with the WHERE and WHO, then it'll do the rest. A breakdown of how it works is this:

1. You click "SEND/RECEIVE".
2. The client tries to connect to the email server you've told it to (for example: mail.mydomain.com).
3. Once the client makes a connection, the server asks, "Who are you?".
4. The client says, "This is my username, and here's my password".
5. The email server will either accept it and send the email to/from you, or it'll say "Nope, don't know who that is, OR I know who that is, but that's not the right password!"

Lot's of activity for just one click of a button, isn't it? Do you feel like you understand now how your email client sends and receives email? Good! Now, lets see how to set up your Outlook Express to make a new connection!


First step, open Outlook Express and click on Tools, then select "Accounts" as shown in the screenshot above.

On to step 2