User:Kjkiser2/Configuring Outlook 2003

Setting up your Outlook Express 2003 Email account

1. Open the Tools menu and click Email accounts...
2. Choose the Add a new email account... and click Next.
3. Choose the IMAP button and click Next.
4. Outlook will ask you for some information for configuring your account. Fill in the boxes as follows and click Next:
   

Your name:	Put your name here
Email address:	Put your email address here. Normally it is unityID@ncsu.edu
User name:	Your user ID
Password:	Put your password in here. Check Remember Password if you do not want to re-enter it every time you open Outlook.
Incoming mail server:	This should be unityID.mail.ncsu.edu (e.g. jdoe.mail.ncsu.edu)
Outgoing mail server:	smtp.ncsu.edu

Now click Finish. Your email account should be up and running. If you need to import messages or an address book, open the File menu, choose Import and Export... You will need to find the outlook.pst file (the most recent one) on your computer to import the messages.

This article is provided with the permission of NCSU ResNet (http://www.ncsu.edu/resnet/).