Setting Up Outlook Express for your Hot Mail Account

Here are the instructions for setting up your outlook express to retrieve and send email on your hotmail account without having to log on to Hot Mail via the web. I gave this a try since a lot of folks were asking about it and it works great. I think this is a great idea especially if you are giving out your email address on the internet. This will help keep your belzonicable.com address off of most spam lists (see Anti-Spam Measures).

First of all you will need to go to Hotmail and set up a free email account. Once you have done this open up your outlook express. On the top bar select tools and this will open a drop down box. Select accounts out of this list. This will open up an internet accounts box with tabs across the top. Select the mail tab if it is not already selected. You will see one email account there and it should be for your belzonicable.com email address. We want to leave that in order for your to get your normal email from belzonicable.com.

Next select the Add button on the right side of that box. Then a box will open to the side..select mail here. It will ask for display name. This is what ever you want your recipients to see in the from box. Such as email from Les...so type what you want in here (example Les, or Les Vance).

This is important. The next screen asks for your email address. Type in your new hotmail account email. (Example: lesliev@hotmail.com)

When you hit enter a box will come up called Email Server Names. Just click next. Do not change anything.

Next will be the Internet Log on Screen. Your username should already be filled in but it should be your full email address at hotmail. (Example: lesliev@hotmail.com)

Type in your password that you set up your hotmail account with. Click Next. You are done. Just click Finish

After you close the account box, outlook will bring up a popup box that asks you if you want to download folders from the server. Select yes and you are finished.

Now when you open outlook express it will check your email at hotmail at the same time it gives you your email from belzonicable.com. In the left pain of outlook express you just select the hotmail account and read your email from there. The folders work just like your used to in outlook express.

Hope this information is helpful.

LV

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