New Email Client Settings

This section is designed to help customers to set up their email account on the three most commonly used email clients, namely: Mac OS X, Outlook Express and Microsoft Outlook Express 2007.

Please find, on the following tabs, the settings that have to be inputted so as to be able to send and receive email thus reducing the probability of spam flooding your inbox.

Setting up your email in:

This tutorial shows you how to set up Microsoft Outlook Express to work with your email accounts.

To set up your email accounts, simply follow the procedure below:

1. Start Outlook Express

2. Choose Accounts from the Tools menu. The Internet Accounts window will open

3. Click the Mail tab. This will show you any email accounts that are currently set up in Outlook Express

4. Click the Add button. A menu will pop up: choose Mail

5. The Internet Connection wizard will appear to guide you through a series of configuration steps for the email address you want to add

6. In the Display name box, type your name as you would like others to see when they receive email from you. Click Next

7. In the E-mail address box, type your complete email address, username@email.sc Click Next

8. The E-Mail Server Names screen will appear. Enter the following information:

9. Click Next

10. The Internet Mail Logon screen will appear. Enter the following information:

11. Click Next. The Congratulations window will appear

12. Click Finish to complete the account setup

13. Double click on the account (pop.seychelles.net) or click on Properties

14. Click on Servers, and tick the box "My server requires authentication" and click on Settings

15. Enter the server information exactly as shown below:

16. Click OK

You're ready to send and receive email!

Setting up your email in:

This tutorial shows you how to set up Microsoft Outlook 2007 to work with your email accounts.

To set up your email accounts, simply follow the procedure below:

1.In Microsoft Outlook, select Tools > Account Settings

2.On the E-mail Accounts window as seen below, select New

3. Now select Manually configure server settings or additional server types, which is situated at the bottom of the window and then click Next

4.Choose Internet E-mail then click Next

5.On the Internet E-mail Settings (POP3) window, enter your information as follows:

Your Name Enter your first and last name or the name of your company/organization etc.

E-mail Address Enter your email address, e.g. username@seychelles.net

Incoming mail server (POP3) Your incoming server is pop.seychelles.net

Outgoing mail server (SMTP) Enter smtp3.seychelles.net for your outgoing mail server. (see screenshot below)

User Name Enter your username only

Password Enter the password you set up for your email account

6. Click on More Settings, Outgoing Server and enter the server details exactly as shown below:

7.Click OK.

8.Click Finish

You're ready to send and receive email!

Setting up your email in Mac OS X

This tutorial shows you how to set up Mac OS X to work with your email accounts.

To set up your email accounts, simply follow the procedure below:

Note:If you do not yet have any email accounts set up in Macintosh Mail, you may automatically see a screen asking for information about your email account. If this occurs, skip the first three steps below.

1.On the Mail menu, click Preferences

2.Click the Accounts icon

3. Click the plus sign (+) in the lower left-hand corner

4.Set the Account Type to POP

5.In the Description box, type your email address

6. In the Email Address box, type your email address again

7.In the Full Name box, type the name you would like others to see when they receive email from you

8. In the Incoming Mail Server box, type email.sc

9.In the User Name box, type your email address again

10.In the Password box, type your email address password

11.Click Server Settings

12.In the Outgoing Mail Server box, please type in the server information exactly as shown below. Click OK

13.Close the Accounts window

You're ready to send and receive email!