Your pop-e-mail account lets you send and receive e-mail directly from the Around Houston Hosting server.

In order to send and receive these e-mails, you must first set up whichever e-mail program you are currently using.

For example your e-mail address is: info@yourdomain.com

Specific directions to set up Outlook or Outlook Express are as follows:

Open Outlook Express

Click Tools and select Accounts from the pull-down menu

A window called Internet Accounts will open

Click Add and select Mail

Display name: Type in Your Company Name

Whatever you enter here will appear as the sender on your outgoing e-mail.

Click next.

Type in the e-mail address that appears on your web-site.
info@yourdomain.com

Click next.

Next you must type in your mail server names as follows:

For incoming mail, type in: mail.yourdomain.com

For outgoing mail, type in: mail.yourdomain.com

Click next

A window called Internet Mail Logon will appear.

For account name, enter info@yourdomain.com

For password, simpy enter your password.

Click next.

Click finish.

Click close.

Close Outlook Express from the top right close box.

Open Outlook Express again and click Tools and select Accounts.

Highlight mail.yourdomain.com and click Properties

A new window called Properties will open.

Type in your reply address: info@yourdomain.com

Click Servers from the top menu choices.

Under Outgoing Mail Server check: My server requires authentication.

Next click on Connection from the top menu

Check: Always connect to this account using:

Then select from the drop-down menu the type of connection you have.

If you are on a local area network, select local area network.

If you are using a dial-up account (for example aol, etc.) simply select your ISP name.

Click apply.

Click OK.

Click close.

And you're ready to e-mail!