How to Setup Multiple Emails in Outlook Express

How convenient would it be to check all of your email accounts from Outlook Express? You could check your work emails at home, paid email accounts, even most free email accounts, right from Outlook Express. You won't have to go to Google Mail, Yahoo Mail and other sites to check your emails; or wait until you get to work to check you company emails. You'll be saving time, and enjoying the organizing features included with Outlook Express in minutes.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Outlook Express installed on your computer.
• Some basic information about your email account from your email provider (if you are setting up your work email at home your company IT department will give you this information) including:
• Your full email address.
• The names of your incoming and outgoing mail servers.
• Your account name (usually your full email address).
• And the password to your email account.

Adding Multiple Email Accounts to Outlook Express

1. 
    

   Open Outlook Express, select the "Tools" menu and select "Accounts..."

2. 
    

   In the dialog box select the "Mail" tab and you will see your current email account. Then click "Add" then click "Mail"

3. 
    

   Then enter your name (this is how it will appear on your emails) and click "Next"

4. 
    

   Enter your full email address. This must be all lower case and include the @ and the rest of your email address and click "Next"

5. Select "POP3" as the server type (unless your email provider instructs you otherwise).

6. 
    

   Enter your incoming and outgoing mail servers given to you from your email provider and click "Next"

7. 
    

   Enter your account name (usually your full email address). Enter your password for this email account. Select "Remember password" if you do not want to have to type it in every time you access this email account.

8. 
    

   Click "Next" then "Finish" and select the "Mail" tab, here you will see the new email account you just added. Then click "Close". You can repeat this process for every email account you have.

Tips & Warnings

• You can add as many email accounts as you want, and you will be able to check all of them without leaving Outlook Express. You can even add many free email accounts to your Outlook express like Google Mail and Yahoo Mail. Microsoft does not allow free Hotmail accounts to be added to Outlook Express but with the full version of Outlook, Microsoft Hotmail can be added. To obtain the information you will need to add Google Mail, and Yahoo Mail to Outlook Express, see the resources below. If you have another email provider, search the phrase "access YOUREMAILPROVIDER in Outlook Express" in your favorite search engine.

Resources

• Yahoo Mail
• Google Mail
• Microsoft Hotmail