Email Setup ~ Windows
Click here to set up or edit your
email account - Macintosh
Please note: Some older email programs
do not provide a checkbox for SMTP server authentication or allow
the use of the full email address as an Account User Name, so an upgrade
to a newer version of the program may be necessary.
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Click here for Outlook XP/2002
Click here for Outlook 2007
Outlook 2000
To Add a New Account Profile:
- Open Outlook
- Go to Tools
- Choose Accounts
- Select the Mail tab
- Click on Add
- Select Mail. This will open the Internet
Connection Wizard.
- Enter your Name
- Click Next
- Enter your full E-mail Address
- Click Next
- Choose POP3 and enter email.tidalhosting.com
in the Incoming Mail (POP3) or (IMAP) server field.
- Enter email.tidalhosting.com * in the
Outgoing Mail (SMTP) server field. (If you choose, you
may enter your ISP's SMTP server information in this field instead.)
- Click Next
- Enter your full email address in the Account
Name field
- Enter your password in the Password
field
- Choose the method your company uses to connect to the Internet.
- Click Next
- Click Finish, however * if you are using email.tidalhosting.com
for your SMTP server it is necessary to follow
these additional steps.
- Choose the account you have just created from the Internet
Accounts window.
- Click on Properties
- Select the Servers tab
- Check the box for My Server Requires
Authentication
- Click on the Settings button
- Select Use same settings as my incoming mail server.
- Click OK
- Click Apply
- Click OK
To Update an Account Profile:
- Open Outlook
- Go to Tools
- Choose Accounts
- Double click on the account you wish to update in the Internet
Accounts window. This brings up Properties.
- Locate the tab which contains the information that needs to be
edited, most often this will be General or Servers.
- Make corrections
- Click Apply
- Click OK
Outlook Express 6.0
To Add a New Account Profile:
- Open Outlook Express.
- Go to the Tools menu.
- Choose Accounts.
- Choose the Mail tab.
- Select Add to add an account profile.
- This opens Internet Connection Wizard
- Enter your Name.
- Click Next.
- Enter your E-mail Address.
- Click Next.
- Your incoming mail is a POP3 server.
- In the Incoming Mail (POP3, IMAP or HTTP) Server
box, enter Enter email.tidalhosting.com.
- In the Outgoing Mail (SMTP) Server box, enter
email.tidalhosting.com * (If you choose, you may
enter your ISP's SMTP server information in this field instead.).
- In the Acount Name box, enter your full
email address.
- In the Password box, enter your password.
- Click Next.
- Click Finish, * however there are additional
steps if you are using email.tidalhosting.com for your SMTP
server.
- Choose the account you have just created from the Internet
Accounts window
- Click on Properties
- Select the Servers tab
- Check the box for My Server Requires
Authentication
- Click on the Settings button
- Select Use same settings as my incoming mail server.
- Click OK
- Now choose the Connection tab in the
Properties window.
- Check the box next to Always connect
to this account using:
- Choose the method your company uses from the drop down list.
- Click Apply
- Click OK
To Update an Account Profile:
- Open Outlook Express
- Go to Tools
- Choose Accounts
- Double click on the account you wish to update in the Internet
Accounts window. This brings up Properties.
- Locate the tab which contains the information that needs to be
edited, most often this will be General or Servers.
- Make corrections
- Click Apply
- Click OK
Netscape 7
- Open Netscape.
- Open Mail & News Groups.
- Choose Mail & News Groups Account Settings.
- Choose Add Account. This will launch the Account
Wizard.
- Select Email Account if it is not already selected.
- Click on the Right Arrow > button to continue.
- Enter Your Name and Email Address
in the appropriate fields.
- Click on the Right Arrow > button to continue.
- Select POP if it has not been pre-selected.
- In the Incoming Server field enter email.tidalhosting.com.
- Click on the Right Arrow > button to continue.
- Enter your Account User Name (full email address)
in the User Name field.
- Click on the Right Arrow > button to continue.This
will bring you to the Congratulations! page, check the list to see
that all your settings are correct.
- If any, except the Outgoing Server (SMTP) setting, are incorrect,
use the < Left Arrow to go back and change them.
- Check the Outgoing Server (SMTP) setting, if
it is not email.tidalhosting.com or your ISP's
SMTP server information, then there will be additional steps.
- When all settings above the Outgoing Server (SMTP) line are correct
click on Finish to complete this step.
Changing the Outgoing Server (SMTP) setting in Netscape
7
- Open Mail & News Groups Account Settings
if it is not already open.
- Locate Outgoing Server (SMTP) in the accounts
list and click on it. To the right you will now see the settings
for the default SMTP server.
- If this is not email.tidalhosting.com or your
ISP's SMTP server information, then click on the Advanced
button to the right. This will open the Advanced Outgoing
Server (SMTP) window.
- Click Add
- Under Server Name enter email.tidalhosting.com
(or your ISP's SMTP server information).
- The Use name and password box should be checked
on if you are using email.tidalhosting.com
as you SMTP server.
- Enter your Account User Name (full email address)
in the User Name field.
- Click OK to continue.
- Return to Mail & News Groups Account Settings
- Locate the name of the account you just set up in the list and
click on it. This will bring up Account Settings
to the right.
- Click on Advanced. This will bring up the Advanced
Account Settings window with a list of the SMTP
servers that have been created.
- Choose email.tidalhosting.com (or your ISP's
SMTP server information from the list.)
- Click OK
- If you wish this account and SMTP setting to be the Default
Account, select it from the list to the left in the
Mail & News Groups Account Settings window and click
Set As Default.
- Click OK to finish.
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