E-mail Configuration of Microsoft Outlook Express Win95/98/NT (multi-user)
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Here are the instructions for setting up Outlook Express to handle the sending and receiving of e-mail for multiple e-mail accounts being accessed by the same computer.

Section #1  Add the first e-mail account:

  1. Open Outlook Express
  2. Click Tools, Accounts, Mail, Add, Mail
  3. Enter the full name of the owner of the first e-mail address
  4. Enter the first e-mail address
  5. Enter mail.imagenisp.com in both the incoming and outgoing fields
  6. Enter the username of the first e-mail address in the POP account name field
  7. Enter the password of the first e-mail address in the Password field
  8. Enter the first e-mail address in the Internet mail account name field
  9. Specify Connect using my local area network (LAN)
  10. Click Finish

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Section #2 Create a folder to deliver the messages to:

  1. Using the right mouse button click Inbox
  2. Using the left mouse button click New Folder
  3. Under Folder name: specify the first e-mail address
  4. Click OK
  5. If the instructions are followed correctly you will see a new folder under the inbox folder with the name of the first e-mail address, specified in Step 3 above

Section #3 Re-direct the e-mail to it's own folder:

  1. Click Tools, Inbox Assistant
  2. Click Add
  3. Check the Account box
  4. Select the first e-mail address created in Section 1
  5. Check the Move To box
  6. Click Folder, select the folder created in Section 2.
  7. Click OK, and OK

Section #4 Repeat Sections #1 - #3 for each additional e-mail address