Setting Up Your E-mail Program for Retrieving Mail From Your Mailbox
To set up Microsoft Outlook Express:
- Open Microsoft Outlook Express.
- Go to Tools > Accounts.
- Click the Mail tab to open a list of your mail accounts.
- Click the Add > button and select the Mail … item.
- Enter your name as you want it to appear in any messages you send, and click Next >.
- Type your e-mail address that you created through Plesk (for example, your.name@your-domain.com), and click Next >.
- Select the protocol of your incoming mail server.
Although Plesk supports both POP3 and IMAP protocols, we recommend that you select IMAP because this leaves your e-mail on the mail server so that it can later be accessed from other locations and by other methods, for example, browser based Webmail.
- Specify your domain name as the incoming and outgoing mail server (for example: your-domain.com), and click Next >.
- Type your e-mail address in the Account name box (for example: your.name@your-domain.com).
- Type your password. This should be the password that you specified during creation of the mailbox through Plesk.
- Leave the Remember password box checked, if you do not wish to be prompted to enter password each time your e-mail program connects to the mail server to check for new mail, and click Next >.
- To complete setting up your e-mail program, click Finish.
To set up Mozilla Thunderbird:
- Open Mozilla Thunderbird.
- Go to Tools > Account Settings…
- Click Add Account. The Account Wizard will open.
- Leave the Email account option selected, and click Next >.
- Enter your name as you want it to appear in any messages you send.
- Type your e-mail address that you created through Plesk.
For example, your.name@your-domain.com. Click Next >.
- Select the protocol of your incoming mail server.
Although Plesk supports both POP3 and IMAP protocols, we recommend that you select IMAP because this leaves your e-mail on the mail server so that it can later be accessed from other locations and by other methods, for example, browser based Webmail.
- Specify your domain name as the incoming and outgoing mail server (for example: your-domain.com), and click Next >.
- In the Incoming User Name box, specify your full e-mail address (for example, your.name@your-domain.com), and click Next >.
- Enter the name by which you would like to refer to this account (for example, Work Account) and click Next >.
- Verify that the information you entered is correct, and click Finish.
- Click OK to close the Account Settings wizard.