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How do I set Outlook as my email rather than my ISP?

 
 
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      26th Oct 2005
I'm a complete novice. We are changing ISP and have been told to use Outlook
or MSN in future to save changing email addresses every time we change ISP.
We have XP and broadband if that means anything.

How do I do this please?
 
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      26th Oct 2005
Outlook doesn't give you an email address, it just retrieves mail. You might
want to sign up for a GMail account so you don't have to change addresses if
you change ISPs. Outlook can retrieve GMail pretty easily.

"redgandalf3" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
newsA0CFFDE-533D-4B57-913E-(E-Mail Removed)...
> I'm a complete novice. We are changing ISP and have been told to use
> Outlook
> or MSN in future to save changing email addresses every time we change
> ISP.
> We have XP and broadband if that means anything.
>
> How do I do this please?



 
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      26th Oct 2005
"redgandalf3" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I'm a complete novice. We are changing ISP and have been told to use
> Outlook
> or MSN in future to save changing email addresses every time we change
> ISP.
> We have XP and broadband if that means anything.
>
> How do I do this please?



Outlook is an e-mail client, just like Thunderbird, Pegasus Mail, Eudora,
and other e-mail programs. They don't create e-mail accounts. They send
and receive e-mail through your e-mail account which you get from someone
else (unless you run your own mail server and your ISP lets you do so).
Since you changed ISPs, you will need to use the e-mail account provided by
your new ISP. Since you are paying them, call them to find out how to setup
your e-mail client, or read their help page(s) on their web site.

If you change ISPs often then you might want to get an e-mail account from
somewhere other than your ISP so your e-mail address doesn't change when you
change ISPs. There are webmail accounts, like Yahoo or Hotmail, where the
freebie accounts require that you use their webmail interface, but you can
pay to get their premium service that allows using POP3/SMTP e-mail clients
to connect to your mailbox there (YahooPOPs is a free proxy utility that
will let you connect to freebie Yahoo Mail accounts). There are lots of
paid e-mail service providers out there, but remember that you are paying to
get their e-mail service when your ISP is already providing e-mail service.

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