How to Set up Outlook Express to Log In When Sending Email.

 

Step 1:
Open up Outlook Express and left click on the "Tools" menu item at the top of the window.

Step 2:
When the menu opens up, drag the cursor down the menu till the "Accounts" item is highlighted and left click on "Accounts"

Step 3:
A new window entitled "Internet Accounts" is going to appear with several tabs at the top of the new window. Left click on the "Mail" tab as shown in the figure below (1). You will see your Nittany Link email connection listed here. left click on it to highlight the Nittany Link email connection (2) and then left click on the "Properties" button to right of the Internet Accounts window (3).

Step 4:
Once you click on "properties" you will see a new window entitled Internet Account Name Properties where Internet Account Name isthe name for your Nittany Link email account in Outlook Express. In the example above, Internet Account Name is mail.nittanylink.com. On the properties window left click on the "servers" tab at the top of the window and continue to Step 5.

Step 5:
On this step you are going to place a check mark on the box that is labeled "My Server Required Authentication in the section "Outgoing Mail Server" at the bottom of the window. Once you check the checkbox a "Settings" window is going to become clickable on the right side of this window. Please left click to open the "Outgoing Mail Server" window.

Step 6:
On this step you are going to make sure that in the section "Logon Information" that "Use same settings as my incoming mail server" has a dot next to it. If it does, click OK otherwise put a dot next to "Use same settings as my incoming mail server" and click OK to close the "Outgoing Mail Server" window. Click OK again to close "mail.nittanylink.com Properties window and finally clock "Close" on the "Internet Accounts" window.

 

You are now ready to handle our change to email server setup.
Thank you.