I don't know what to insert "postoffice, mailbox, and password" in

[puterjunkie4ever]

set up email. I'm trying to get my email so that when I send out messages
they are not returned to me as undeliverable.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

version of outlook?
what type of email account do you have?

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[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

you need to consult your ISP's website to get this information depending on
your mail account type (IMAP or POP3) - for Hotmail, use http and the rest
should be supplied for you depending on your version of Outlook.

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After furious head scratching, puterjunkie4ever asked:

| set up email. I'm trying to get my email so that when I send out
| messages they are not returned to me as undeliverable.

 

[puterjunkie4ever]

Hi....I have Outlook 97 email account. It pulls up a box that says
postoffice, mailbox and password. I don't know what to put in there. I hope
I have answered you. I'm not quite sure what you mean by what type of email
account do I have.

version of outlook?
what type of email account do you have?

--
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set up email. I'm trying to get my email so that when I send out messages
they are not returned to me as undeliverable.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

That may be the dialog for the old workgroup post office.

Who do you get your email from? Most of the major ISPs offer only POP3.

Go to Control panel, mail and create a new profile. You need to create a new
profile with the proper type of account. If POP3 is not an option listed
there, you need the IMEP patch from the microsoft website.

--
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Hi....I have Outlook 97 email account. It pulls up a box that says
postoffice, mailbox and password. I don't know what to put in there. I
hope
I have answered you. I'm not quite sure what you mean by what type of
email
account do I have.

version of outlook?
what type of email account do you have?

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]





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set up email. I'm trying to get my email so that when I send out
messages
they are not returned to me as undeliverable.

 

[Vince Averello]

In addition to what Diane said, here's a little guide to setting up Internet
mail in OL97 (don't get to post it often these days):

* go to the Control Panel > Mail applet
* make sure that the profile that's showing (which typically is the
contents of your default profile) has the following services in it:
- Personal Folders (this defines the location that mail/items can be stored
in)
- Personal Address Book (an address book provider - not essential for
Outlook but good to have around anyway)
- Outlook Address Book (another address book provider - this one takes the
electronic addresses from Contacts and turns them into an address book)
- Internet Mail (a mail transport - this is the one that moves mail from
your ISPs POP3 server to your Personal folders and from your Personal
Folders to your ISPs SMTP server [the whole loop for Internet e=mail])

The only service that might have some confusing parameters to set in it
would be the Internet Mail service. Before setting it up make sure you've
got the following info handy (complete list - I'm sure you know some of
these but I'm gonna list them anyway)

(If you've got two tabs in the Internet Mail service properties - Original
Internet Mail service):

[On General Tab]
- Your name
- Your E-mail address
- Your ISP's POP3 server name
- Your account name on that server
- Your POP3 account password
- Your ISP's SMTP server name (if you click the Advanced Options button
you'll see this field)

[On Connection tab]
- How you want to connect to your ISP's server
- If you want scheduled collection of mail (click Schedule button for this)

(If you've got four tabs in the Internet E-mail service properties -
Internet Mail Enhancement Patch service):

[On General Tab]
- A 'friendly' name to distinguish this service from other Internet E-mail
services in the same profile
- Your name
- Your company (if applicable)
- Your E-mail address
- A reply address (if you want replies from mail sent from this service to
go to another address)

[On Servers tab]
- Your ISP's SMTP server name (Outgoing mail)
- Your ISP's POP3 server name (Incoming mail)
- Your POP3 account name & password (unless you've got an MSN or Compuserve
POP3 mailbox in which case you check the Logon using Secure Password
Authentication button)

[On Connection tab]
- How you want to connect to the servers
- Do you want to disconnect after sending & receiving mail from this service

[On Advanced tab]
I'd leave most of these alone with the possible exception of the "Leave Mail
on Server" option (if you want to leave mail in your POP3 mailbox for
collection from another computer). The rest of the options normally aren't
used unless your ISP has an odd setup or a slow server.

Hi....I have Outlook 97 email account. It pulls up a box that says
postoffice, mailbox and password. I don't know what to put in there. I
hope
I have answered you. I'm not quite sure what you mean by what type of
email
account do I have.

version of outlook?
what type of email account do you have?

--
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set up email. I'm trying to get my email so that when I send out
messages
they are not returned to me as undeliverable.

 

[puterjunkie4ever]

Hi.....yes this is usually where I wound up. I put the neccesarry info. Then
I hit delievery and that is where I'm stomped. I need to put in postoffice
(which I think is POP3), mailbox?, and password?

That may be the dialog for the old workgroup post office.

Who do you get your email from? Most of the major ISPs offer only POP3.

Go to Control panel, mail and create a new profile. You need to create a new
profile with the proper type of account. If POP3 is not an option listed
there, you need the IMEP patch from the microsoft website.

--
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Hi....I have Outlook 97 email account. It pulls up a box that says
postoffice, mailbox and password. I don't know what to put in there. I
hope
I have answered you. I'm not quite sure what you mean by what type of
email
account do I have.

version of outlook?
what type of email account do you have?

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]





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message set up email. I'm trying to get my email so that when I send out
messages
they are not returned to me as undeliverable.

 

[Vince Averello]

That's because you're trying to use an old MS Mail service as opposed to an
Internet Mail service. Did you get a chance to read the message I posted
yesterday?

 

[puterjunkie4ever]

Hi Vince....No I didn't get a chance to read. It seemed somewhat complicated
so I didn't. I will read it. Are you saying don't use an old mail service and
use the internet service?

In addition to what Diane said, here's a little guide to setting up Internet
mail in OL97 (don't get to post it often these days):

* go to the Control Panel > Mail applet
* make sure that the profile that's showing (which typically is the
contents of your default profile) has the following services in it:
- Personal Folders (this defines the location that mail/items can be stored
in)
- Personal Address Book (an address book provider - not essential for
Outlook but good to have around anyway)
- Outlook Address Book (another address book provider - this one takes the
electronic addresses from Contacts and turns them into an address book)
- Internet Mail (a mail transport - this is the one that moves mail from
your ISPs POP3 server to your Personal folders and from your Personal
Folders to your ISPs SMTP server [the whole loop for Internet e=mail])

The only service that might have some confusing parameters to set in it
would be the Internet Mail service. Before setting it up make sure you've
got the following info handy (complete list - I'm sure you know some of
these but I'm gonna list them anyway)

(If you've got two tabs in the Internet Mail service properties - Original
Internet Mail service):

[On General Tab]
- Your name
- Your E-mail address
- Your ISP's POP3 server name
- Your account name on that server
- Your POP3 account password
- Your ISP's SMTP server name (if you click the Advanced Options button
you'll see this field)

[On Connection tab]
- How you want to connect to your ISP's server
- If you want scheduled collection of mail (click Schedule button for this)

(If you've got four tabs in the Internet E-mail service properties -
Internet Mail Enhancement Patch service):

[On General Tab]
- A 'friendly' name to distinguish this service from other Internet E-mail
services in the same profile
- Your name
- Your company (if applicable)
- Your E-mail address
- A reply address (if you want replies from mail sent from this service to
go to another address)

[On Servers tab]
- Your ISP's SMTP server name (Outgoing mail)
- Your ISP's POP3 server name (Incoming mail)
- Your POP3 account name & password (unless you've got an MSN or Compuserve
POP3 mailbox in which case you check the Logon using Secure Password
Authentication button)

[On Connection tab]
- How you want to connect to the servers
- Do you want to disconnect after sending & receiving mail from this service

[On Advanced tab]
I'd leave most of these alone with the possible exception of the "Leave Mail
on Server" option (if you want to leave mail in your POP3 mailbox for
collection from another computer). The rest of the options normally aren't
used unless your ISP has an odd setup or a slow server.

Hi....I have Outlook 97 email account. It pulls up a box that says
postoffice, mailbox and password. I don't know what to put in there. I
hope
I have answered you. I'm not quite sure what you mean by what type of
email
account do I have.

version of outlook?
what type of email account do you have?

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]





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message set up email. I'm trying to get my email so that when I send out
messages
they are not returned to me as undeliverable.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Yes, you need to use the internet mail service. I don't have outlook 97
installed on a virtual machine to check it, but I recall you needed to
install a patch to use it with pop.

Oh... it looks like it is part of the service packs, so you may have it
installed already - http://www.slipstick.com/archive/ol/imep.htm

Is there a reason why you are attempting to use such an old, outdated
application?


--
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Hi Vince....No I didn't get a chance to read. It seemed somewhat
complicated
so I didn't. I will read it. Are you saying don't use an old mail service
and
use the internet service?

In addition to what Diane said, here's a little guide to setting up
Internet
mail in OL97 (don't get to post it often these days):

* go to the Control Panel > Mail applet
* make sure that the profile that's showing (which typically is the
contents of your default profile) has the following services in it:
- Personal Folders (this defines the location that mail/items can be
stored
in)
- Personal Address Book (an address book provider - not essential for
Outlook but good to have around anyway)
- Outlook Address Book (another address book provider - this one takes
the
electronic addresses from Contacts and turns them into an address book)
- Internet Mail (a mail transport - this is the one that moves mail from
your ISPs POP3 server to your Personal folders and from your Personal
Folders to your ISPs SMTP server [the whole loop for Internet e=mail])

The only service that might have some confusing parameters to set in it
would be the Internet Mail service. Before setting it up make sure you've
got the following info handy (complete list - I'm sure you know some of
these but I'm gonna list them anyway)

(If you've got two tabs in the Internet Mail service properties -
Original
Internet Mail service):

[On General Tab]
- Your name
- Your E-mail address
- Your ISP's POP3 server name
- Your account name on that server
- Your POP3 account password
- Your ISP's SMTP server name (if you click the Advanced Options button
you'll see this field)

[On Connection tab]
- How you want to connect to your ISP's server
- If you want scheduled collection of mail (click Schedule button for
this)

(If you've got four tabs in the Internet E-mail service properties -
Internet Mail Enhancement Patch service):

[On General Tab]
- A 'friendly' name to distinguish this service from other Internet
E-mail
services in the same profile
- Your name
- Your company (if applicable)
- Your E-mail address
- A reply address (if you want replies from mail sent from this service
to
go to another address)

[On Servers tab]
- Your ISP's SMTP server name (Outgoing mail)
- Your ISP's POP3 server name (Incoming mail)
- Your POP3 account name & password (unless you've got an MSN or
Compuserve
POP3 mailbox in which case you check the Logon using Secure Password
Authentication button)

[On Connection tab]
- How you want to connect to the servers
- Do you want to disconnect after sending & receiving mail from this
service

[On Advanced tab]
I'd leave most of these alone with the possible exception of the "Leave
Mail
on Server" option (if you want to leave mail in your POP3 mailbox for
collection from another computer). The rest of the options normally
aren't
used unless your ISP has an odd setup or a slow server.

Hi....I have Outlook 97 email account. It pulls up a box that says
postoffice, mailbox and password. I don't know what to put in there. I
hope
I have answered you. I'm not quite sure what you mean by what type of
email
account do I have.

:

version of outlook?
what type of email account do you have?

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]





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in
message set up email. I'm trying to get my email so that when I send out
messages
they are not returned to me as undeliverable.

 

[puterjunkie4ever]

Only because that is where outlook 97 takes me....they also have it for
internet email service....which I guess I'll have to set up. More complicated
though. I had to write to my isp and ask what to put in for incoming and
outgoing mail, etc.

Yes, you need to use the internet mail service. I don't have outlook 97
installed on a virtual machine to check it, but I recall you needed to
install a patch to use it with pop.

Oh... it looks like it is part of the service packs, so you may have it
installed already - http://www.slipstick.com/archive/ol/imep.htm

Is there a reason why you are attempting to use such an old, outdated
application?


--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]





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Hi Vince....No I didn't get a chance to read. It seemed somewhat
complicated
so I didn't. I will read it. Are you saying don't use an old mail service
and
use the internet service?

In addition to what Diane said, here's a little guide to setting up
Internet
mail in OL97 (don't get to post it often these days):

* go to the Control Panel > Mail applet
* make sure that the profile that's showing (which typically is the
contents of your default profile) has the following services in it:
- Personal Folders (this defines the location that mail/items can be
stored
in)
- Personal Address Book (an address book provider - not essential for
Outlook but good to have around anyway)
- Outlook Address Book (another address book provider - this one takes
the
electronic addresses from Contacts and turns them into an address book)
- Internet Mail (a mail transport - this is the one that moves mail from
your ISPs POP3 server to your Personal folders and from your Personal
Folders to your ISPs SMTP server [the whole loop for Internet e=mail])

The only service that might have some confusing parameters to set in it
would be the Internet Mail service. Before setting it up make sure you've
got the following info handy (complete list - I'm sure you know some of
these but I'm gonna list them anyway)

(If you've got two tabs in the Internet Mail service properties -
Original
Internet Mail service):

[On General Tab]
- Your name
- Your E-mail address
- Your ISP's POP3 server name
- Your account name on that server
- Your POP3 account password
- Your ISP's SMTP server name (if you click the Advanced Options button
you'll see this field)

[On Connection tab]
- How you want to connect to your ISP's server
- If you want scheduled collection of mail (click Schedule button for
this)

(If you've got four tabs in the Internet E-mail service properties -
Internet Mail Enhancement Patch service):

[On General Tab]
- A 'friendly' name to distinguish this service from other Internet
E-mail
services in the same profile
- Your name
- Your company (if applicable)
- Your E-mail address
- A reply address (if you want replies from mail sent from this service
to
go to another address)

[On Servers tab]
- Your ISP's SMTP server name (Outgoing mail)
- Your ISP's POP3 server name (Incoming mail)
- Your POP3 account name & password (unless you've got an MSN or
Compuserve
POP3 mailbox in which case you check the Logon using Secure Password
Authentication button)

[On Connection tab]
- How you want to connect to the servers
- Do you want to disconnect after sending & receiving mail from this
service

[On Advanced tab]
I'd leave most of these alone with the possible exception of the "Leave
Mail
on Server" option (if you want to leave mail in your POP3 mailbox for
collection from another computer). The rest of the options normally
aren't
used unless your ISP has an odd setup or a slow server.


message Hi....I have Outlook 97 email account. It pulls up a box that says
postoffice, mailbox and password. I don't know what to put in there. I
hope
I have answered you. I'm not quite sure what you mean by what type of
email
account do I have.

:

version of outlook?
what type of email account do you have?

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]





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in
message set up email. I'm trying to get my email so that when I send out
messages
they are not returned to me as undeliverable.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Why are you using Outlook 97? It's old, slow and buggy.

--
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Only because that is where outlook 97 takes me....they also have it for
internet email service....which I guess I'll have to set up. More
complicated
though. I had to write to my isp and ask what to put in for incoming and
outgoing mail, etc.

Yes, you need to use the internet mail service. I don't have outlook 97
installed on a virtual machine to check it, but I recall you needed to
install a patch to use it with pop.

Oh... it looks like it is part of the service packs, so you may have it
installed already - http://www.slipstick.com/archive/ol/imep.htm

Is there a reason why you are attempting to use such an old, outdated
application?


--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]





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Hi Vince....No I didn't get a chance to read. It seemed somewhat
complicated
so I didn't. I will read it. Are you saying don't use an old mail
service
and
use the internet service?

:

In addition to what Diane said, here's a little guide to setting up
Internet
mail in OL97 (don't get to post it often these days):

* go to the Control Panel > Mail applet
* make sure that the profile that's showing (which typically is the
contents of your default profile) has the following services in it:
- Personal Folders (this defines the location that mail/items can be
stored
in)
- Personal Address Book (an address book provider - not essential for
Outlook but good to have around anyway)
- Outlook Address Book (another address book provider - this one takes
the
electronic addresses from Contacts and turns them into an address
book)
- Internet Mail (a mail transport - this is the one that moves mail
from
your ISPs POP3 server to your Personal folders and from your Personal
Folders to your ISPs SMTP server [the whole loop for Internet e=mail])

The only service that might have some confusing parameters to set in
it
would be the Internet Mail service. Before setting it up make sure
you've
got the following info handy (complete list - I'm sure you know some
of
these but I'm gonna list them anyway)

(If you've got two tabs in the Internet Mail service properties -
Original
Internet Mail service):

[On General Tab]
- Your name
- Your E-mail address
- Your ISP's POP3 server name
- Your account name on that server
- Your POP3 account password
- Your ISP's SMTP server name (if you click the Advanced Options
button
you'll see this field)

[On Connection tab]
- How you want to connect to your ISP's server
- If you want scheduled collection of mail (click Schedule button for
this)

(If you've got four tabs in the Internet E-mail service properties -
Internet Mail Enhancement Patch service):

[On General Tab]
- A 'friendly' name to distinguish this service from other Internet
E-mail
services in the same profile
- Your name
- Your company (if applicable)
- Your E-mail address
- A reply address (if you want replies from mail sent from this
service
to
go to another address)

[On Servers tab]
- Your ISP's SMTP server name (Outgoing mail)
- Your ISP's POP3 server name (Incoming mail)
- Your POP3 account name & password (unless you've got an MSN or
Compuserve
POP3 mailbox in which case you check the Logon using Secure Password
Authentication button)

[On Connection tab]
- How you want to connect to the servers
- Do you want to disconnect after sending & receiving mail from this
service

[On Advanced tab]
I'd leave most of these alone with the possible exception of the
"Leave
Mail
on Server" option (if you want to leave mail in your POP3 mailbox for
collection from another computer). The rest of the options normally
aren't
used unless your ISP has an odd setup or a slow server.


in
message Hi....I have Outlook 97 email account. It pulls up a box that says
postoffice, mailbox and password. I don't know what to put in
there. I
hope
I have answered you. I'm not quite sure what you mean by what type
of
email
account do I have.

:

version of outlook?
what type of email account do you have?

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]





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"puterjunkie4ever" <[email protected]>
wrote
in
message set up email. I'm trying to get my email so that when I send out
messages
they are not returned to me as undeliverable.

 

[puterjunkie4ever]

That is what certain websites take me to. I can just cut and paste into an
email I have existing. Thought I would get it right. Alright what if I now
set up an email for qwest.com, my isp. Would websites take me there to send
mail?

Why are you using Outlook 97? It's old, slow and buggy.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]





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Only because that is where outlook 97 takes me....they also have it for
internet email service....which I guess I'll have to set up. More
complicated
though. I had to write to my isp and ask what to put in for incoming and
outgoing mail, etc.

Yes, you need to use the internet mail service. I don't have outlook 97
installed on a virtual machine to check it, but I recall you needed to
install a patch to use it with pop.

Oh... it looks like it is part of the service packs, so you may have it
installed already - http://www.slipstick.com/archive/ol/imep.htm

Is there a reason why you are attempting to use such an old, outdated
application?


--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]





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message Hi Vince....No I didn't get a chance to read. It seemed somewhat
complicated
so I didn't. I will read it. Are you saying don't use an old mail
service
and
use the internet service?

:

In addition to what Diane said, here's a little guide to setting up
Internet
mail in OL97 (don't get to post it often these days):

* go to the Control Panel > Mail applet
* make sure that the profile that's showing (which typically is the
contents of your default profile) has the following services in it:
- Personal Folders (this defines the location that mail/items can be
stored
in)
- Personal Address Book (an address book provider - not essential for
Outlook but good to have around anyway)
- Outlook Address Book (another address book provider - this one takes
the
electronic addresses from Contacts and turns them into an address
book)
- Internet Mail (a mail transport - this is the one that moves mail
from
your ISPs POP3 server to your Personal folders and from your Personal
Folders to your ISPs SMTP server [the whole loop for Internet e=mail])

The only service that might have some confusing parameters to set in
it
would be the Internet Mail service. Before setting it up make sure
you've
got the following info handy (complete list - I'm sure you know some
of
these but I'm gonna list them anyway)

(If you've got two tabs in the Internet Mail service properties -
Original
Internet Mail service):

[On General Tab]
- Your name
- Your E-mail address
- Your ISP's POP3 server name
- Your account name on that server
- Your POP3 account password
- Your ISP's SMTP server name (if you click the Advanced Options
button
you'll see this field)

[On Connection tab]
- How you want to connect to your ISP's server
- If you want scheduled collection of mail (click Schedule button for
this)

(If you've got four tabs in the Internet E-mail service properties -
Internet Mail Enhancement Patch service):

[On General Tab]
- A 'friendly' name to distinguish this service from other Internet
E-mail
services in the same profile
- Your name
- Your company (if applicable)
- Your E-mail address
- A reply address (if you want replies from mail sent from this
service
to
go to another address)

[On Servers tab]
- Your ISP's SMTP server name (Outgoing mail)
- Your ISP's POP3 server name (Incoming mail)
- Your POP3 account name & password (unless you've got an MSN or
Compuserve
POP3 mailbox in which case you check the Logon using Secure Password
Authentication button)

[On Connection tab]
- How you want to connect to the servers
- Do you want to disconnect after sending & receiving mail from this
service

[On Advanced tab]
I'd leave most of these alone with the possible exception of the
"Leave
Mail
on Server" option (if you want to leave mail in your POP3 mailbox for
collection from another computer). The rest of the options normally
aren't
used unless your ISP has an odd setup or a slow server.


in
message Hi....I have Outlook 97 email account. It pulls up a box that says
postoffice, mailbox and password. I don't know what to put in
there. I
hope
I have answered you. I'm not quite sure what you mean by what type
of
email
account do I have.

:

version of outlook?
what type of email account do you have?

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]





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"puterjunkie4ever" <[email protected]>
wrote
in
message set up email. I'm trying to get my email so that when I send out
messages
they are not returned to me as undeliverable.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

You mean when you click a mailto link on a webpage it opens Outlook 97?
What email client do you use when you don't click a link? You can uninstall
Outlook so it doesn't take over the mailto's.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]





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That is what certain websites take me to. I can just cut and paste into an
email I have existing. Thought I would get it right. Alright what if I now
set up an email for qwest.com, my isp. Would websites take me there to
send
mail?

Why are you using Outlook 97? It's old, slow and buggy.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]





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Only because that is where outlook 97 takes me....they also have it for
internet email service....which I guess I'll have to set up. More
complicated
though. I had to write to my isp and ask what to put in for incoming
and
outgoing mail, etc.

:

Yes, you need to use the internet mail service. I don't have outlook
97
installed on a virtual machine to check it, but I recall you needed to
install a patch to use it with pop.

Oh... it looks like it is part of the service packs, so you may have
it
installed already - http://www.slipstick.com/archive/ol/imep.htm

Is there a reason why you are attempting to use such an old, outdated
application?


--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]





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in
message Hi Vince....No I didn't get a chance to read. It seemed somewhat
complicated
so I didn't. I will read it. Are you saying don't use an old mail
service
and
use the internet service?

:

In addition to what Diane said, here's a little guide to setting up
Internet
mail in OL97 (don't get to post it often these days):

* go to the Control Panel > Mail applet
* make sure that the profile that's showing (which typically is the
contents of your default profile) has the following services in it:
- Personal Folders (this defines the location that mail/items can
be
stored
in)
- Personal Address Book (an address book provider - not essential
for
Outlook but good to have around anyway)
- Outlook Address Book (another address book provider - this one
takes
the
electronic addresses from Contacts and turns them into an address
book)
- Internet Mail (a mail transport - this is the one that moves mail
from
your ISPs POP3 server to your Personal folders and from your
Personal
Folders to your ISPs SMTP server [the whole loop for Internet
e=mail])

The only service that might have some confusing parameters to set
in
it
would be the Internet Mail service. Before setting it up make sure
you've
got the following info handy (complete list - I'm sure you know
some
of
these but I'm gonna list them anyway)

(If you've got two tabs in the Internet Mail service properties -
Original
Internet Mail service):

[On General Tab]
- Your name
- Your E-mail address
- Your ISP's POP3 server name
- Your account name on that server
- Your POP3 account password
- Your ISP's SMTP server name (if you click the Advanced Options
button
you'll see this field)

[On Connection tab]
- How you want to connect to your ISP's server
- If you want scheduled collection of mail (click Schedule button
for
this)

(If you've got four tabs in the Internet E-mail service
properties -
Internet Mail Enhancement Patch service):

[On General Tab]
- A 'friendly' name to distinguish this service from other Internet
E-mail
services in the same profile
- Your name
- Your company (if applicable)
- Your E-mail address
- A reply address (if you want replies from mail sent from this
service
to
go to another address)

[On Servers tab]
- Your ISP's SMTP server name (Outgoing mail)
- Your ISP's POP3 server name (Incoming mail)
- Your POP3 account name & password (unless you've got an MSN or
Compuserve
POP3 mailbox in which case you check the Logon using Secure
Password
Authentication button)

[On Connection tab]
- How you want to connect to the servers
- Do you want to disconnect after sending & receiving mail from
this
service

[On Advanced tab]
I'd leave most of these alone with the possible exception of the
"Leave
Mail
on Server" option (if you want to leave mail in your POP3 mailbox
for
collection from another computer). The rest of the options normally
aren't
used unless your ISP has an odd setup or a slow server.


"puterjunkie4ever" <[email protected]>
wrote
in
message Hi....I have Outlook 97 email account. It pulls up a box that
says
postoffice, mailbox and password. I don't know what to put in
there. I
hope
I have answered you. I'm not quite sure what you mean by what
type
of
email
account do I have.

:

version of outlook?
what type of email account do you have?

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]





EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
(e-mail address removed)

You can access this newsgroup by visiting
http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx or
point
your
newsreader to msnews.microsoft.com.


"puterjunkie4ever" <[email protected]>
wrote
in
message
set up email. I'm trying to get my email so that when I send
out
messages
they are not returned to me as undeliverable.

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

Only because that is where outlook 97 takes me....they also have it for
internet email service....which I guess I'll have to set up. More
complicated
though. I had to write to my isp and ask what to put in for incoming and
outgoing mail, etc.

Keep in mind that if your ISP requires outgoing server authentication you
will not be able to use Outlook 97. It doesn't support outgoing server
authentication.

 

[puterjunkie4ever]

Hi Diane.....yes, the mailto takes me to outlook. It is old and I would like
not to use it in any way. When a site takes me to mailto, I would like to go
to the ISP mail. I don't have that configured yet. I wrote an email to quest
asking them to help set me up an email account. Would the mailto's go to
qwest then? I have 4 defferent email accounts that I use. I'm in a business
and need that many. I have two with yahoo and two with gmail. Are you saying
I should just delete outlook 97 all together. To be truthful, I wouldn't mind.

You mean when you click a mailto link on a webpage it opens Outlook 97?
What email client do you use when you don't click a link? You can uninstall
Outlook so it doesn't take over the mailto's.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]





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That is what certain websites take me to. I can just cut and paste into an
email I have existing. Thought I would get it right. Alright what if I now
set up an email for qwest.com, my isp. Would websites take me there to
send
mail?

Why are you using Outlook 97? It's old, slow and buggy.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]





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(e-mail address removed)

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message Only because that is where outlook 97 takes me....they also have it for
internet email service....which I guess I'll have to set up. More
complicated
though. I had to write to my isp and ask what to put in for incoming
and
outgoing mail, etc.

:

Yes, you need to use the internet mail service. I don't have outlook
97
installed on a virtual machine to check it, but I recall you needed to
install a patch to use it with pop.

Oh... it looks like it is part of the service packs, so you may have
it
installed already - http://www.slipstick.com/archive/ol/imep.htm

Is there a reason why you are attempting to use such an old, outdated
application?


--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]





EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
(e-mail address removed)

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in
message Hi Vince....No I didn't get a chance to read. It seemed somewhat
complicated
so I didn't. I will read it. Are you saying don't use an old mail
service
and
use the internet service?

:

In addition to what Diane said, here's a little guide to setting up
Internet
mail in OL97 (don't get to post it often these days):

* go to the Control Panel > Mail applet
* make sure that the profile that's showing (which typically is the
contents of your default profile) has the following services in it:
- Personal Folders (this defines the location that mail/items can
be
stored
in)
- Personal Address Book (an address book provider - not essential
for
Outlook but good to have around anyway)
- Outlook Address Book (another address book provider - this one
takes
the
electronic addresses from Contacts and turns them into an address
book)
- Internet Mail (a mail transport - this is the one that moves mail
from
your ISPs POP3 server to your Personal folders and from your
Personal
Folders to your ISPs SMTP server [the whole loop for Internet
e=mail])

The only service that might have some confusing parameters to set
in
it
would be the Internet Mail service. Before setting it up make sure
you've
got the following info handy (complete list - I'm sure you know
some
of
these but I'm gonna list them anyway)

(If you've got two tabs in the Internet Mail service properties -
Original
Internet Mail service):

[On General Tab]
- Your name
- Your E-mail address
- Your ISP's POP3 server name
- Your account name on that server
- Your POP3 account password
- Your ISP's SMTP server name (if you click the Advanced Options
button
you'll see this field)

[On Connection tab]
- How you want to connect to your ISP's server
- If you want scheduled collection of mail (click Schedule button
for
this)

(If you've got four tabs in the Internet E-mail service
properties -
Internet Mail Enhancement Patch service):

[On General Tab]
- A 'friendly' name to distinguish this service from other Internet
E-mail
services in the same profile
- Your name
- Your company (if applicable)
- Your E-mail address
- A reply address (if you want replies from mail sent from this
service
to
go to another address)

[On Servers tab]
- Your ISP's SMTP server name (Outgoing mail)
- Your ISP's POP3 server name (Incoming mail)
- Your POP3 account name & password (unless you've got an MSN or
Compuserve
POP3 mailbox in which case you check the Logon using Secure
Password
Authentication button)

[On Connection tab]
- How you want to connect to the servers
- Do you want to disconnect after sending & receiving mail from
this
service

[On Advanced tab]
I'd leave most of these alone with the possible exception of the
"Leave
Mail
on Server" option (if you want to leave mail in your POP3 mailbox
for
collection from another computer). The rest of the options normally
aren't
used unless your ISP has an odd setup or a slow server.


"puterjunkie4ever" <[email protected]>
wrote
in
message Hi....I have Outlook 97 email account. It pulls up a box that
says
postoffice, mailbox and password. I don't know what to put in
there. I
hope
I have answered you. I'm not quite sure what you mean by what
type
of
email
account do I have.

:

version of outlook?
what type of email account do you have?

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]





EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
(e-mail address removed)

You can access this newsgroup by visiting
http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx or
point
your
newsreader to msnews.microsoft.com.


"puterjunkie4ever" <[email protected]>
wrote
in
message
set up email. I'm trying to get my email so that when I send
out
messages
they are not returned to me as undeliverable.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Yes, you can uninstall Outlook 97. Are you using a mail client (like
Outlook Express) or do you read your mail in a web browser?

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]





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Hi Diane.....yes, the mailto takes me to outlook. It is old and I would
like
not to use it in any way. When a site takes me to mailto, I would like to
go
to the ISP mail. I don't have that configured yet. I wrote an email to
quest
asking them to help set me up an email account. Would the mailto's go to
qwest then? I have 4 defferent email accounts that I use. I'm in a
business
and need that many. I have two with yahoo and two with gmail. Are you
saying
I should just delete outlook 97 all together. To be truthful, I wouldn't
mind.

You mean when you click a mailto link on a webpage it opens Outlook 97?
What email client do you use when you don't click a link? You can
uninstall
Outlook so it doesn't take over the mailto's.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]





EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
(e-mail address removed)

You can access this newsgroup by visiting
http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx or point
your
newsreader to msnews.microsoft.com.

That is what certain websites take me to. I can just cut and paste into
an
email I have existing. Thought I would get it right. Alright what if I
now
set up an email for qwest.com, my isp. Would websites take me there to
send
mail?

:

Why are you using Outlook 97? It's old, slow and buggy.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]





EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
(e-mail address removed)

You can access this newsgroup by visiting
http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx or point
your
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in
message Only because that is where outlook 97 takes me....they also have it
for
internet email service....which I guess I'll have to set up. More
complicated
though. I had to write to my isp and ask what to put in for incoming
and
outgoing mail, etc.

:

Yes, you need to use the internet mail service. I don't have
outlook
97
installed on a virtual machine to check it, but I recall you needed
to
install a patch to use it with pop.

Oh... it looks like it is part of the service packs, so you may
have
it
installed already - http://www.slipstick.com/archive/ol/imep.htm

Is there a reason why you are attempting to use such an old,
outdated
application?


--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]





EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
(e-mail address removed)

You can access this newsgroup by visiting
http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx or
point
your
newsreader to msnews.microsoft.com.


"puterjunkie4ever" <[email protected]>
wrote
in
message Hi Vince....No I didn't get a chance to read. It seemed somewhat
complicated
so I didn't. I will read it. Are you saying don't use an old mail
service
and
use the internet service?

:

In addition to what Diane said, here's a little guide to setting
up
Internet
mail in OL97 (don't get to post it often these days):

* go to the Control Panel > Mail applet
* make sure that the profile that's showing (which typically is
the
contents of your default profile) has the following services in
it:
- Personal Folders (this defines the location that mail/items
can
be
stored
in)
- Personal Address Book (an address book provider - not
essential
for
Outlook but good to have around anyway)
- Outlook Address Book (another address book provider - this one
takes
the
electronic addresses from Contacts and turns them into an
address
book)
- Internet Mail (a mail transport - this is the one that moves
mail
from
your ISPs POP3 server to your Personal folders and from your
Personal
Folders to your ISPs SMTP server [the whole loop for Internet
e=mail])

The only service that might have some confusing parameters to
set
in
it
would be the Internet Mail service. Before setting it up make
sure
you've
got the following info handy (complete list - I'm sure you know
some
of
these but I'm gonna list them anyway)

(If you've got two tabs in the Internet Mail service
properties -
Original
Internet Mail service):

[On General Tab]
- Your name
- Your E-mail address
- Your ISP's POP3 server name
- Your account name on that server
- Your POP3 account password
- Your ISP's SMTP server name (if you click the Advanced Options
button
you'll see this field)

[On Connection tab]
- How you want to connect to your ISP's server
- If you want scheduled collection of mail (click Schedule
button
for
this)

(If you've got four tabs in the Internet E-mail service
properties -
Internet Mail Enhancement Patch service):

[On General Tab]
- A 'friendly' name to distinguish this service from other
Internet
E-mail
services in the same profile
- Your name
- Your company (if applicable)
- Your E-mail address
- A reply address (if you want replies from mail sent from this
service
to
go to another address)

[On Servers tab]
- Your ISP's SMTP server name (Outgoing mail)
- Your ISP's POP3 server name (Incoming mail)
- Your POP3 account name & password (unless you've got an MSN or
Compuserve
POP3 mailbox in which case you check the Logon using Secure
Password
Authentication button)

[On Connection tab]
- How you want to connect to the servers
- Do you want to disconnect after sending & receiving mail from
this
service

[On Advanced tab]
I'd leave most of these alone with the possible exception of the
"Leave
Mail
on Server" option (if you want to leave mail in your POP3
mailbox
for
collection from another computer). The rest of the options
normally
aren't
used unless your ISP has an odd setup or a slow server.


"puterjunkie4ever" <[email protected]>
wrote
in
message
Hi....I have Outlook 97 email account. It pulls up a box that
says
postoffice, mailbox and password. I don't know what to put in
there. I
hope
I have answered you. I'm not quite sure what you mean by what
type
of
email
account do I have.

:

version of outlook?
what type of email account do you have?

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]





EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
(e-mail address removed)

You can access this newsgroup by visiting
http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx
or
point
your
newsreader to msnews.microsoft.com.


"puterjunkie4ever"
<[email protected]>
wrote
in
message
set up email. I'm trying to get my email so that when I
send
out
messages
they are not returned to me as undeliverable.

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

Hi Diane.....yes, the mailto takes me to outlook. It is old and I would
like
not to use it in any way. When a site takes me to mailto, I would like to
go
to the ISP mail. I don't have that configured yet. I wrote an email to
quest
asking them to help set me up an email account. Would the mailto's go to
qwest then? I have 4 defferent email accounts that I use. I'm in a
business
and need that many. I have two with yahoo and two with gmail. Are you
saying
I should just delete outlook 97 all together. To be truthful, I wouldn't
mind.

The mailto URL should start whatever mail client you have as the default
client on your PC. Unless you've purchased an account directly from Yahoo,
I don't think there's a Yahoo client. I'm fairly sure there's no gmail
client, either, so there's no good way for a mailto URL to "take you to"
either Yahoo or gmail. Even if you get a Qwest account, unless Qwest
supplies a mail client, mailto URLs won't "go to" them, either.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

mailto's can work with web-based accounts but you need a small utility or
JavaScript installed. See
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=10966 for the
google method. Greasemonkey has scripts for firefox that work with any
web-based account.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]





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[puterjunkie4ever]

This is what I found for pop3 and smtp for qwest. Is this right so that I can
have them as a mailto client. pop3.email.msn.com
smtp.email.msn.com. This is a pain in the azz.