Microsoft Outlook Express 6 - Default Port - Setup Guide
Important Points
- First you need to make sure the email address(es) you will be sending from have been authorised for your account in our Control Panel .
- These instructions assume your email account has already been setup and is collecting email correctly.
- Take a note of any settings you change.
- Only change the items specified - you should not need to change either your email address, POP3 server, POP3 username / password.
- These instructions are only for Microsoft Outlook Express 6.x - for other email programs please see How To Setup AuthSMTP or contact us.
- We have instructions for both default SMTP port and alternate SMTP port configurations - alternate port is generally used if your ISP blocks the normal port 25 SMTP access (as many do these days!).
Step One
- Load Microsoft Outlook Express 6.x
- From the main screen open the 'Tools' menu and then select'Accounts...'
![Outlook Express 6 - Step 1 - Go to the Tools menu and click Accounts...](/images/setup/outlook-express-6-1.gif)
Step Two
- Select the 'Mail' tab
![Outlook Express 6 - Step 2 - Go to the Mail tab](/images/setup/outlook-express-6-2.gif)
Step Three
- Click on the email account to modify - this will cause it to become highlighted
- Click on the 'Properties' button
![Outlook Express 6 - Step 3 - Click the Properties button](/images/setup/outlook-express-6-3.gif)
Step Four
- Click on the 'Servers' tab.
![Outlook Express 6 - Step 4 - Go to the Servers tab](/images/setup/outlook-express-6-4.gif)
Step Five
- Change the 'Outgoing mail server (SMTP)' to the SMTP server we supplied with your signup email
- Tick the box next to 'My server requires authentication'
- Click on the 'Settings...' button
![Outlook Express 6 - Step 5 - Change the outgoing mail server to AuthSMTP's and tick Server Requires Authentication then click Settings](/images/setup/outlook-express-6-5.gif)
Step Six
- Select 'Log on using'
- Enter the AuthSMTP username and password we supplied when you signed up
- IMPORTANT: 'authsmtp.username' is an example - if your AuthSMTP username was 'ab12345' enter it as that and *not* as 'authsmtp.ab12345'
- Tick the 'Remember password' option
- Click the 'Ok' button
![Outlook Express 6 - Step 6 - Enter your AuthSMTP username and password](/images/setup/outlook-express-6-6.gif)
Step Seven
- Click the 'Ok' button
![Outlook Express 6 - Step 7 - Click OK](/images/setup/outlook-express-6-5.gif)
Step Eight
- Click the 'Close' button
![Outlook Express 6 - Step 8 - Click close to complete the setup of the AuthSMTP outgoing email relay service](/images/setup/outlook-express-6-3.gif)
Step Nine
- You should now be back to the main Outlook Express 6.x screen
- Close Outlook Express 6.x and then reload
- Check you are online then test to ensure you can send mail correctly
- All done!