How to Find the Host or Server on Compuserve to Send Email

Find your Compuserve host and get started sending email.

With the right information at hand, you can send email from your Compuserve email account using any email program, including Microsoft Outlook or Thunderbird. This is possible for both Compuserve Classic and Compuserve 2000 users; all you will need to get started is your current Compuserve account username (email address) and password; all accounts have the same host/server settings.

Things You'll Need

• Compuserve account

Instructions

Compuserve Classic ([e-mail] OR [e-mail])

1. Connect to Compuserve. Run the "go npx-92" command to generate a password for your email account. Write down this password.

2. Open the Account Settings for your preferred email program.

3. Choose POP or POP3 as your email account type.

4. Enter [e-mail] as your email address. Note the period in lieu of the comma.

5. Enter pop.compuserve.com as your Incoming Mail Server (POP).

6. Enter smtp.compuserve.com as your Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP).

7. Enter your Compuserve username (in the original format, preserving commas) as your User Name.

8. Enter the password from step 1 as your Password.

CompuServe 2000 ([e-mail])

1. Open the Account Settings menu of your preferred email program.

2. Choose IMAP as your email account type.

3. Enter imap.cs.com as your Incoming Mail Server (IMAP).

4. Enter smtp.cs.com as your Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP).

5. Enter your Compuserve sign-on name and password as your User Name and Password.

References

• Microsoft: How to Configure Outlook 2002 with CompuServe Classic Mail
• Microsoft: How to Configure Outlook with CompuServe 2000 Mail