OUTLOOK EXPRESS

- Add an Outlook Express Email Account

- Add a name to your Outlook Express Address book

- Attach a file to your email, whether it be pictures, a letter, or anything else that you would like to send.

- Outlook express is telling you that 'OE removed access to the following unsafe attchments in your mail: '. The solution is a simple setting change in your Outlook Express Options.

MICROSOFT OUTLOOK

To create a new Microsoft Outlook mail account, follow the directions below.

* Open your Microsoft email program.

* Click onto the Tools menu at the top and select Email Accounts.

* A box will come up entitled email accounts; it will ask you if you want to do one of the following:
- Add a new e-mail account
- View or change existing e-mail accounts

(you need to select add a new e-mail account and click next)

* Then select the POP3 option and click next.

* An Internet E-mail Settings (POP3) box will come up:

-You will need to enter:

a. Your name as you would like it to appear on your outgoing emails.
b. Your email address (username@pentel.net)
c. Your username
d. Your password (if the box is check you will not have to enter your password every time you log on.
e. Your incoming mail server is a (POP3:), type mail.pentel.net
f. Your outgoing mail server (SMTP):, type mail.pentel.net

Once you have entered the above information, click next.

* You will then see a Congratulations! You have successfully entered all the information required to setup your account box, then it says, To close the wizard, click finish. Click finish.

* Then close Microsoft Outlook.

When you restart Microsoft Outlook, you should be all set to use it for sending and receiving email.

Older Version Steps:

To create a new Microsoft Outlook mail account, follow the directions below.

When you first launch Microsoft Outlook, you are asked to choose an information service.

Choose Internet E-mail.
Click Next.

Click the Setup Mail Account button.

Make sure you are viewing the General properties as shown.
Enter mail.pentel.net in the first box.

Then enter your own account information in the User Information section.

Click the Servers tab.
Enter mail.pentel.net for the POP3 server.

Your Internet Service Provider (ISP) will supply you the SMTP server. The mail.pentel.net.

Enter your username in the Account Name box.

Click the Connections tab.
If you are using Cable/DSL, click the "Connect using my local area network (LAN)" button as shown.

If you are using a modem, select the "Connect using my phone line" button.

You should already have a Dial-Up Network connection setup - probably titled Pentel Net or Pentel Net Dial-up.

Click OK.

Please use the default location for your Outlook folder file.
Click Next.

Congratulations you are done!
Click Finish.

Click the Send/Receive button in Outlook to check for new mail messages or to send any outgoing messages in your outbox.

HANG UP AFTER SENDING AND RECEIVING MAIL:

- Open OUTLOOK EXPRESS

- On the menu bar at the top select TOOLS

- Then select OPTIONS

- A box will appear with several tabs at the top, select the CONNECTION tab

- There will be a Dial-up section at the top

- You want to make sure that the seond checkbox titled HANG UP AFTER SENDING AND RECEIVING is NOT checked.