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How
do I set up my Netscape browser for email?
If you would like to configure Netscape
mail to download your hosted POP email, please follow the directions
below. You will need the following information:
- A POP email
account which you have have setup in your control panel (ex: [email protected])
- The POP (incoming)
mail server listed on your Welcome to hosting365.ie! message
(eg: mail.yourdomain.com)
- The SMTP
(outgoing) mail server (ex: mail.yourdomain.com)
- The password
to the POP email account
In this example
we configure Netscape mail to retrieve mail form the fictitious,
host.ie POP email account: [email protected]. The POP server
is mail3.hosting365.ie, the SMTP is smtp.yourdialupcompany.com and
the password is “password”
Now, on to the
configuration!
1. Open the
Netscape browser and click on Edit-->Preferences... The
following screen should be displayed:
2. Under Category
on the left hand side of the screen open the Mail & Newsgroups
folder. The important sub-categories to configure are Identity
and Mail Servers. The other sub-categories under Mail &
Newsgroups are optional, and you may fill them out later to
customize certain settings. Let’s start with Identity
by clicking on this setting.
3. Under Your
name place the name you would like to appear as the friendly
name – the name attached to your email address that will displayed
in the "From" field along with your email address. Example
(friendly name in red):
John
Smith
[[email protected]]
4. You need
not enter a Reply-to address unless you want people to reply to
an email address different that [email protected].
5. The categories
Organization and Signature File are optional –
this is where you may enter your company, ID files, or electronic
business cards.
6. Now you are
finished with the Identity setting. We can now move onto
the Mail Servers setting.
7. In this setting
we configure both incoming (POP) and outgoing (SMTP) mail servers.
Click on Mail Servers and the following screen will be generated:
8. Under Incoming
Mail Servers click on Add and the screen below will be
generated.
9. Enter your
incoming host.ie assigned POP mail server under Server Name. You
will find this information on your Welcome To hosting365.ie! message
that you received when you first secured your account. In our example,
the POP server is mail3.hosting365.ie. Note that this is most
likely not your assigned mail server - please check your Welcome
message to determine your assigned mail server.
10. Under Server
Type select “POP3 Server” instead of "IMAP Server".
11. Under
User Name place the email address for which you are configuring
the account with a % sign instead of the @ symbol. In our
example it is "sales%yourdomain.com."
12. Check the
Remember password field if you do not wish to re-enter your
password each time Netscape checks for new mail.
13. Select the
box at Check for new mail every ___ and then specify the
number of minutes between mail checks. If you do not select this
box, new mail will not appear until you click Get Msg or
the Inbox icon on the component bar of Netscape Messenger. Check
the Automatically download any new messages field if you
wish this to be the case when downloading email.
14. Click
OK.
15. The next
step is to configure the Outgoing Mail Server.
16. Under Outgoing
mail (SMTP) server you should enter your dial-up SMTP server.
Please contact the company that is providing you with Internet access
for this information.
17. Under Outgoing
mail server user name place the email address for which you are
configuring the account. In our example we use [email protected].
18. You should
be finished with your Netscape Mail configuration. Click OK to confirm
the profile that you have set up.
19. You may
check your messages and verify that you have correctly configured
Netscape Mail by clicking on Messenger under the Communicator
Netscape menu category. Once Messenger is open you may click on
Get Msg and key in the password for the POP email account.
Netscape will then download the mail from our mail server, and you
may begin to send and receive email using the Netscape Mail POP
client.
If, for any
reason, you are unsuccessful retrieving email when clicking on Get
Msg, please double check your settings as the problem most likely
lies in using:
- a misspelled
username and password or
- an incorrect
incoming mail server.
We hope this
information helps. If you have more questions about Netscape and
its capabilities, please check with NetScape at: http://help.netscape.com/products/client/communicator/index.html
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