Creating my own Outlook e-mail address

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Richard Champlin

I recently purchased Microsoft Enterprise 2007. I am trying to familiarize
myself with Outlook 2007 as I am fairly adept with Outllook 2003. But I have
a question that will sound rather boneheaded for somebody who is supposedly
computer savvy, especially with Outlook, Excel, Word...

In my previous experience with ANY Microsoft applications, the portal was
provided by an employer's Administrator, so I already had an Outlook e-mail
address provided for me.

In this case, I am the Administrator. How do I create my Outlook e-mail
address?
Or did I already do this in the heady rush to get my new toy activated and
simply forgot?

Richard Champlin
Inventory Specialist
Seattle Children's Hospital
 
To obtain an email address you need a mail provider. There are generally
three types of mail providers:
- free, web-based accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail)
- an account provided by your ISP
- an account provided by your employer's mail admin

You cannot have a mail address by Outlook alone, it needs a mail server
that can be found on the Internet, and that handles your incoming &
outgoing mail messages.
 
Okay, I have a Yahoo address...it even shows as the account in Outlook under
Account Settings. But for some reason, every time I send it returns an error
saying "Service Unavailable" and the messages stay indefinitely in the Outbox.
 
Yahoo is currently experiencing problems on a large scale.

Also, do you have a paid account (Mail Plus)?
 
Okay, I have a Yahoo address...it even shows as the account in Outlook under
Account Settings. But for some reason, every time I send it returns an
error
saying "Service Unavailable" and the messages stay indefinitely in the
Outbox.
Click to expand...

Yahoo's free accounts won't work with Outlook. Yahoo doesn't allow it.
 
No,
I do not have Mail Plus. I have a free account that I opened in 2003.
Could that be the problem, or part of it?
 
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