New Account in Outlook 97

[Nicholas Ashton]

I have outlook 97 on my pc but am currently using Outlook Express. I want to
set up my existing account on Outlook - how do I do this?

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Depends on whether you've updated to IMEP or not.

Here's a quick step-by-step:
* 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)
- 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 - IMEP or
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.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Depends on whether you've updated to IMEP or not.

Why would this be beneficial and how would it be done?

 

[Brian Tillman]

I have outlook 97 on my pc but am currently using Outlook Express. I
want to set up my existing account on Outlook - how do I do this?

In addition to all that Russ wrote, be aware that many ISPs now require
authentication on the outbound (SMTP) server as well as the inbound (POP)
server and that Outlook 97 cannot do the outbound authentication and so
won't be usable for sending messages if outbound authentication is required.

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

The Internet Mail part of the original Outlook 97 was way buggy even by
version 1 standards. So the IMEP was put out to fix things...

http://www.slipstick.com/addins/SERVICES/imep.htm

 

[Brian Tillman]

The Internet Mail part of the original Outlook 97 was way buggy even
by version 1 standards. So the IMEP was put out to fix things...

http://www.slipstick.com/addins/SERVICES/imep.htm

Thanks. Since I have SR-2B, it appears IMEP is included in that.