Email Setup Information - for Outlook Express

New Email Account Setup - Checking Your Settings - Newsgroup Setup

This page will help you configure Outlook Express, the email and news reader included with Internet Explorer. If this is the first time you are setting up this software then simply double-click on "Outlook Express" on your desktop to start the procedure. If you have already installed the software and just need to change the settings for the software then please click here.

Step #1

When prompted for "Your Name" enter your name as you wish it to appear on email messages you compose, then click Next to continue.

Step #2

Next you will need to enter your email address. Once completed, click on the Next button.

Step #3

Set the "Incoming mail server" and "Outgoing mail server" to mail.bam.on.ca as in the example below. Also ensure that it says that your incoming mail server is a POP3 server. Once you have completed those fields, click Next to continue with the configuration.

Step #4

Here you need to enter your POP3 account name (also known as your mailbox name) and its password. This is the account name you have that is part of your email address. Once you have entered the account name and its password then click on the Next button to continue.

Step #5

Congratulations!

You have completed the wizard, and Outlook Express is now ready to send and receive email.
Click Finish to close the wizard.

Verify your settings with these screenshots

• From the Tools menu, choose Accounts.
• Click on the Mail tab.
• Select your account and click the Properties button

Mail Account is the name that you will use to keep track of this account. You can make it anything you like. Nobody else will see this.

The Name will show up when you send email instead of your email address. Depending on the email program your receiver is using, they may just see your name, but they will be able to reply to your email address.

Organization is optional. You could put your company name in here.

E-mail address is your email address.

Reply address is also optional. If you would like people to reply to a different email address than the one you used to send your email you would enter it here.

Incoming mail (POP3) is always mail.bam.on.ca
Outgoing mail (SMTP) is always mail.bam.on.ca

Account name is your user name (i.e. baxxxx).
Password is your password.

If you have more than one way to connect to the internet, select the connection you'd like to use to send and receive email from the drop down box after checking the Always connect to this account using box.

You won't have to change these settings unless they don't look like the ones below.

Same with these. They should look like this already.

Now just click OK and you'll be all set to send and receive email.

NEWSGROUP SETUP

Step #1

When prompted for "Your Name" enter your name as you wish it to appear on news articles you compose, then click Next to continue.

Step #2

Next you will need to enter your email address. Once completed, click on the Next button.

Step #3

Set the "News server" to news.bam.on.ca as in the example below. Also make sure that the "My news server requires me to log on" is not checked. Once completed, click Next to continue with the configuration.

Step #4

If you wish to name your profile something other than the default you can do so here, otherwise click Next to accept the default and continue with the configuration.

Step #5

Unless you are connecting through a network or wish to manually establish the connection, click Next to use the default setting of connecting through your telephone line.

Step #6

Click on "Use an existing dial-up connection", and select "BAM Internet" from the list presented below. Once you have selected BAM Internet, click on Next to continue.

Step #7

Simply click Finish to save all of your settings and your email program will now automatically start. While the interface is intuitive, you can also obtain help from the Help menu option or if you need any assistance you can contact the Help Desk.

Connecting

If you are not already connected to the Internet when running your email and news software, you may be presented with a box similar to the one below. Simply select BAM Internet from the drop-down box and check to save it as the default. Then click OK and your settings will be saved.