• Netscape Messenger: Free, part of the Netscape Communicator package **Recommended**
• Microsoft Outlook 97, 98, 2000: Commercial, bundled in the Microsoft Office package, or can be purchased individually
• Outlook Express: Free, bundled with Internet Explorer 5 and up **Recommended**
• Eudora Pro 4.x: Free/Commercial, a product by Qualcomm
• Tucows Email clients: Large list of Email clients

Remember to replace "emailaccount" with your email account (eg. john) and "yourdomain.com" with your domain (eg. phone.com):

• General Settings
• Note about Sending Email
• Netscape Messenger **Recommended**
• Microsoft Outlook 97, 98, 2000
• Outlook Express (IE 5) **Recommended**
• Eudora Pro (Version 4.x)
• Using IMAP

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Alternatively, you may use your ISP's (Internet Service Provider) Outgoing (SMTP) Mail server. This could be mail.aol.com or smtp.yourisp.com . Call your ISP and ask them what their "Outgoing Mail Server" is. Some ISPs force you to use their Outgoing (SMTP) Mail server, so you have no choice but to use their mail server. Generally there is no problem in doing this, and to the person receiving your email there is no difference anyway.

(Note: technically, when you authenticate yourself with the incoming mail server, your IP is recorded and sent to the outgoing mail server. The outgoing mail server will then allow your IP address to send email for approximately 20 minutes. After that time it flushes the IP address out.)

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1. From the Edit menu on the toolbar, select "Options"
2. Open the "Mail & Newsgroup" category and select "Mail Servers"
3. Click "Add" to display the Mail Server Properties dialog box.
4. In the Incoming Mail Server box, type "mail.yourdomain.com"
5. In the Outgoing Mail Server box, type "mail.yourdomain.com"
6. Under Server Type, click the drop-down list and select POP3
7. Under User Name, type
   "emailaddress%yourdomain.com" (Note: notice the percent symbol)
8. Check "Remember password" so you don't have to re-enter your password each time you start Messenger. You will be prompted for your password initially
9. When prompted for your password, enter your emailaccount@yourdomain.com password
10. Click "OK"

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• Microsoft Outlook 97
1. From the Tools menu, select "Services"
2. Click "Add" and click "OK"
3. In the Available Information Services box, click "Internet Email"
4. Click on the General tab
5. Type a name for your new internet email account (for example, "My New Mail Account")
6. Enter your name
7. Enter your email address (eg. "emailaddress@yourdomain.com")
8. Click the Server tab
9. In the Incoming Mail (POP3) box, enter "mail.yourdomain.com"
10. In the Outgoing Mail (SMTP) box, enter "mail.yourdomain.com"
11. In the Account Name box, enter "emailaccount@yourdomain.com"
12. In the Password box, enter the password for emailaccount@yourdomain.com
13. Check "Remember Password" if you do not want Outlook to prompt you for your password each time you check your mail
14. Do not check the boxes labeled "Log on using Secure..." or "My server requires authentication"
15. Click "OK"

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• Microsoft Outlook 98 and 2000
1. From the Tools menu, select "Accounts"
2. Click "Add" and "Mail"
3. Type in your name as you would like it to appear in the display box and click "Next"
4. In the Email Address box, enter your email address (eg. "emailaccount@yourdomain.com")
5. In the box labeled "My incoming mail server is a..." select "POP3" server.
6. In the Incoming Mail (POP3) box, enter "mail.yourdomain.com"
7. In the Outgoing Mail (SMTP) box, enter "mail.yourdomain.com"
8. Click "Next"
9. In the Account Name box, enter "emailaccount@yourdomain.com"
10. In the Password box, enter the password for emailaccount@yourdomain.com
11. Do not check "Log On Using Secure Password Authentication (SPA)"
12. Click "Next"
13. Type a name for your new Internet email account (eg. My New Email Account)
14. Choose the appropriate connection type under the Which Method Do You Use to Connect to the Internet heading
15. If you chose "Connect using my phone line", you will need to select a dial-up connection in the Dial up Connection Wizard and click "Next"
16. Click "Finish"

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1. From the Tools menu, choose "Account"
2. Select the Mail tab
3. Click the "Add" button
4. From the Add menu, click "Mail"
5. In the text box labeled "Display Name," type your name and click "Next"
6. In the Email Address box, type "emailaccount@yourdomain.com"
7. Select "POP3" to answer the question "My incoming mail server is a…"
8. In the Incoming (POP3 or IMAP) box, type "mail.yourdomain.com"
9. In the Outgoing (SMTP) box, type "mail.yourdomain.com"
10. Click "Next"
11. In the Account Name box, type emailaccount@yourdomain.com
12. In the Password box, type the password for emailaccount@yourdomain.com
13. If you want Outlook Express to remember your password, then check the appropriate box
14. Donot check the "Log on using secure password" box
15. Click "Next"
16. Click "Finish"

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1. Click on the Tools Menu and select "Personalities"
2. Right click in the Personalities box (on the left of the screen) and select "New"
3. The New Account Wizard will take you through the set up
4. Use the following settings:
   • Personality Name: My New Email Account
   • Account Settings: select "Create a new account"
   • Personal Information: enter your name
   • Email Address: enter "emailaccount@yourdomain.com"
   • Login Name: enter "emailaccount@yourdomain.com"
   • Incoming Email Server: type "mail.yourdomain.com" Make sure that POP is selected at the bottom
   • Outgoing Email Server: type "mail.yourdomain.com"
5. Click the "Finish" button when you are done.

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However, if you need to access your email from many different places (eg. home, office, while traveling), IMAP may be more suitable because you can read your mail from anywhere as the mail is stored on the mail server. Keep in mind that there is less privacy with IMAP as the email is constantly re-sent to you every time you access it, so there is a higher chance that someone will read your message during transit.

In most cases, to use IMAP you simply need to replace all instances of "POP3" with "IMAP". However, Netscape Messenger has a few known bugs that does not allow "Get New Messages" to work all the time. Microsoft Outlook does not support the NAMESPACE server extension properly so you have to configure many settings manually. Due to these reasons we do not directly support IMAP. If you are still interested in using IMAP, you may find additional help at IMAP Client Notes.

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