Setting up a POP3 email in Outlook Express

Step 1:

Click the "Mail" tab in the top left corner of the windows,
then click on "Add" and then "Mail..."

Enter your name in the box and then click "Next"

Enter your Email address in the box and then click "Next"

Enter your incoming mail info in the "Incoming Mail" box, supplied by your ISP or domain hosting service, then enter your ISP's SMTP server in the "Outgoing Mail" box. If you do not know your ISP's SMTP server you need to contact them and find out. Click "Next" when finished.

Enter your user name in the "Account Name" box, then enter the password for that user name in the "Password" box. If you want Outlook to remember your password for you check "Remember password", and then click "Next".
The above info will be provided by your ISP or domain hosting service.

Click "Finish" to complete the process.

Click "Close"

To back up your mail and news accounts settings:

1.Click Accounts on the Tools menu.

2.Select an e-mail or news account and click the Export button.

3.Select a location for Outlook Express to save the exported file. Its three-letter extension should be IAF.

4.Repeat steps 2 and 3 for every e-mail and news account.

To restore your accounts:

1.Click Accounts on the Tools menu.

2.Click the Import button and Browse to the previously saved IAF file.

To back up your address book:

1.On the File menu, click Export, and then click Address Book.

2.Select Text File (Comma Separated Values) and then click the Export button.

3.Browse to your desired location and type a name for the exported file. The file extension should remain CSV.

To restore your address book:

1.On the File menu, click Import, and then click Other Address Book.

2.Select Text File (Comma Separated Values) and then click the Import button.

3.Browse to locate the previously saved CSV file.

To back up your mail folders:

1.Click Options on the Tools menu.

2.On the Maintenance tab, click the Store Folder button.

3.Press the TAB key to highlight the store folder path, then press CTRL+C to copy it to the clipboard.

4.Close Outlook Express.

5.Click Run on the Start menu.

6.Press CTRL+V to paste the store folder path, and then click OK.

7.Copy all mail folder DBX files as well as the Folders.DBX file to your backup media. It is not necessary to copy newsgroup DBX files as these cannot normally be imported. It is essential that you include Folders.DBX in your backup.

To restore your mail folders:

1.Copy the backup copies of your DBX files to a new empty folder on your hard disk.

2.In Outlook Express click Import on the File menu, then click Messages.

3.Select Microsoft Outlook Express 6 and click Next.

4.Select Import mail from an OE6 store directory and click OK.

5.Browse to the folder with your backup DBX files and click Next.