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Start up Outlook.
In the main menu at the top of the Outlook screen, go to Tools–>Account Settings. A new window will pop-up with some options. With the “E-Mail” tab active, click on “new” the icon.
Another new window will appear prompting you to enter information about how Outlook will connect to your hosted email account and how it will appear to others receiving email from you.
User Information: Enter your name or other name as you’d like it to appear when sending email from this account.
E-Mail Address: Enter the email address of the account you are setting up.
Server Information: The account type is POP3, incoming mail server: pop.secureserver.net, Outgoing mail server (SMTP): smtpout.secureserver.net
Logon Information: Enter your username and password. Check the “remember password” box. Leave the “Require logon using Secure Password Authentication (SPA)” box unchecked.
Click on the “More Settings” button. With the “General” tab active, complete the information requested. Once complete, you’ll need to look at the next three tab windows to make sure your settings are correct.
Choose the “Outgoing Server” tab to activate it’s window. Check “My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication”. Also if it’s not already ticked, check “Use same settings as my incoming mail server”.
Outlook Outgoing Server Settings
In the “Connection” tab window, you shouldn’t need to change anything. It should already be set to connect using your local area network (LAN). If not, tick the box next to this setting.
Outlook Connection Settings
Finally, activate the “Advanced” tab and set the Incoming server (POP3) to “110″ and the Outgoing server (SMTP) to “80″. Make sure the “This server requires an encrypted connection (SSL)” box is unchecked.
“Use the following type of encrypted connection” should be set to none.
The “Delivery” section settings should be set as follows: Check the box for “Leave a copy of messages on the server”, then check “Remove from server after “2″ days.
Outlook Advanced Settings
Click on the OK button to accept your settings. Now click on the “Test Account Settings” button to make sure everything is setup correctly. If you still receive errors, you’ll need to double check all your settings to make sure they are correct according to your hosting company. If you don’t receive any errors, you should now be officially set up in Outlook to begin sending and receiving email.
To download Thunderbird, go to http://www.mozillamessaging.com . To install Thunderbird for Windows, simply click on the “Download Thunderbird Icon”. If you are using Mac or another operating system, or you want to install Thunderbird in a different language, click on the link below icon, “Other Systems & Languages” . After you’ve finished downloading and installing Thunderbird, you’ll be prompted to setup a new account to get started. For the account type, select Email Account and then click the Next button.
Thunderbird New Email Account
On the Identity screen, enter your first and last name the way you want it to appear for recipients of your email. Next enter your Red Circle email address.
Thunderbird Identity
On the Server Information screen, choose POP for server type and then enter your incoming and outgoing mail server names as shown below:
Thunderbird Server Information
Your Incoming and Outgoing user names are your full Red Circle email address.
Thunderbird User Name
Enter the name you’d like your email account to be called in Thunderbird. Usually you’ll just use your Red Circle email address.
Thunderbird Account Name
Enter your email account password provided to you by Red Circle and hit OK.
Thunderbird Password
Once Thunderbird starts up, In the main menu at the top of your screen, click on Tools —–> Account Settings. Once the Account Settings dialog box pops up, click on Outgoing Server (SMTP) in the left menu. Next select your email address and click on the Edit button. A new window will appear prompting you for settings. Change the port number from the default of 25 to 80. Click OK.
Thunderbird Outgoing Server
Now choose Server Settings from the left menu. Make sure the settings below match your settings. Once they are the same, click OK.
Click on the “Get Mail” icon in top left corner of the main menu and if you are able to send and receive emails, you should now be set up and ready to begin using Thunderbird with your Red Circle email account.
