Most customers choose
to send and receive their e-mail using a POP3 mail client.
Popular POP3 mail programs include Eudora, Netscape's Messenger,
and Microsoft's Outlook and Outlook Express. Advantages to
using POP3 are the ability to read mail "offline" after downloading
it, and the ability to read mail in HTML-format (if desired).
In order to send and receive e-mail using a POP3 client,
there are 4 basic pieces of information you'll need to know.
They are:
- Username - to check your account's main mailbox,
this should be set to your account username. To check
extra POP boxes you might have purchased, you should use
the username you chose for that box at the time it was
requested. (NOTE: Most POP3 clients will let you set your
return address to something else, so your username will
not appear as the "From" address of e-mails you send if
you do not want it to.)
- Password - again, with the main account mailbox,
this should be set to your account password. And for extra
POP boxes, it should be set to the password you have chosen
for that box.
- POP3 (Incoming Mail) Server - this is the server
from which you receive your mail. You may use either of:
mailX.pair.com
mail.example.com
In the first example, you should replace X with the
number of the server your account resides on. You can
get that information from the Welcome Message you received
when your account was opened (if you don't have it handy,
contact us and
we can help). In the second example, you should replace
"example.com" with one of the domain names hosted in
your account.
If you are accessing a Virtual Mailbox, the mail.example.com
format should specifically be used.
- SMTP (Outgoing Mail) Server - this should be
set to the outgoing mail server provided by your ISP.
While different e-mail software may have dialog boxes with
different organizations, each should ask for this same basic
information. If you are having trouble, try searching for
SMTP and POP in the help files for your mail client.
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