This is probably blindingly obvious to most people, but here goes. I have a
conventional e-mail account which I use Outlook Express to access. Can I use
OE to access my new web-based e-mail account? Do I just add it as another
account? What are the POP and SMTP thingys when I get to the box for incoming
and outgoing mail? What do I put in there?
Cheers

Web-based will probably be http, not pop.
What company?
--
Ron Sommer

"ChrisD" wrote in message
...
: This is probably blindingly obvious to most people, but here goes. I have
a
: conventional e-mail account which I use Outlook Express to access. Can I
use
: OE to access my new web-based e-mail account? Do I just add it as another
: account? What are the POP and SMTP thingys when I get to the box for
incoming
: and outgoing mail? What do I put in there?
: Cheers

Yes. Blindingly obvious you did not RTFM the Help pages of the web-mail service. Try searching them for 'POP3'.

You will be surprised to learn you are not alone.

"Ron Sommer" wrote in message ...
Web-based will probably be http, not pop.
What company?
--
Ron Sommer

"ChrisD" wrote in message
...
: This is probably blindingly obvious to most people, but here goes. I have
a
: conventional e-mail account which I use Outlook Express to access. Can I
use
: OE to access my new web-based e-mail account? Do I just add it as another
: account? What are the POP and SMTP thingys when I get to the box for
incoming
: and outgoing mail? What do I put in there?
: Cheers

RTFM??? Sorry, you've got me there. It's an Orange account because I was
Freeserve and then it became Wanadoo and now it's Orange. I used them because
I thought that my monthly broadband subscription would cover it and I could
just swop accounts over. Apparently you can't but by then I'd set up this new
one - it's free anyway . I've searched their web pages in vain and I know
what you mean about POP3 becuase I found the old Freeserve web page really
helpful. But the Orange one isn't and even though I e-mailed them and asked I
just got a bog standard reply.

"Capomaestro" wrote:

Yes. Blindingly obvious you did not RTFM the Help pages of the web-mail service. Try searching them for 'POP3'.

You will be surprised to learn you are not alone.

"Ron Sommer" wrote in message ...
Web-based will probably be http, not pop.
What company?
--
Ron Sommer

"ChrisD" wrote in message
...
: This is probably blindingly obvious to most people, but here goes. I have
a
: conventional e-mail account which I use Outlook Express to access. Can I
use
: OE to access my new web-based e-mail account? Do I just add it as another
: account? What are the POP and SMTP thingys when I get to the box for
incoming
: and outgoing mail? What do I put in there?
: Cheers

ChrisD wrote:
RTFM??? Sorry, you've got me there. It's an Orange account because I
was Freeserve and then it became Wanadoo and now it's Orange. I used
them because I thought that my monthly broadband subscription would
cover it and I could just swop accounts over. Apparently you can't
but by then I'd set up this new one - it's free anyway . I've
searched their web pages in vain and I know what you mean about POP3
becuase I found the old Freeserve web page really helpful. But the
Orange one isn't and even though I e-mailed them and asked I just got
a bog standard reply.

"Capomaestro" wrote:

Yes. Blindingly obvious you did not RTFM the Help pages of the
web-mail service. Try searching them for 'POP3'.

You will be surprised to learn you are not alone.

"Ron Sommer" wrote in message
...
Web-based will probably be http, not pop.
What company?
--
Ron Sommer

"ChrisD" wrote in message
...
This is probably blindingly obvious to most people, but here goes.
I have
a
conventional e-mail account which I use Outlook Express to access.
Can I
use
OE to access my new web-based e-mail account? Do I just add it as
another account? What are the POP and SMTP thingys when I get to
the box for
incoming
and outgoing mail? What do I put in there?
Cheers

RTFM: He was being sarcastic; as in , Read The F..ine Manual.
IF it's possible to do, you'll have to get the incoming and outgoing (POP3
and SMTP) addresses from your ISP. If you can "pop" your mail to your
machine, all that information should be somewhere in your webmail FAQs or
setup or Help sections.
Once you get the POP and SMTP settings, and their ports to be used on,
then it's "just" setting up another email account. Look for instructions at
your ISP.

HTH
Pop`

"ChrisD" wrote in message
...
RTFM??? Sorry, you've got me there. It's an Orange account because I was
Freeserve and then it became Wanadoo and now it's Orange. I used them
because
I thought that my monthly broadband subscription would cover it and I
could
just swop accounts over. Apparently you can't but by then I'd set up this
new
one - it's free anyway . I've searched their web pages in vain and I know
what you mean about POP3 becuase I found the old Freeserve web page
really
helpful. But the Orange one isn't and even though I e-mailed them and
asked I
just got a bog standard reply.


Chris, RTFM is one way of saying read the manual.

Now you talk about Orange webmail, they do not and never have been available
in OE even the fsmail.net accounts did not work.

What sort of account did you want to swap over, but could not?

All my old fsmail accounts still are accessible from the orange web site.

Get back.
--
Regards Steve.
MS-MVP. OE. [DTS]

I have an fsmail.net account but it's tiresome having to sign in to it all
the time so I thought that OE might be able to open it, as OE fires up
automatically. I want to abandon my old freeserve.co.uk account because it's
been spoofed and I have loads of returned items every day.

"mac" wrote:


"ChrisD" wrote in message
...
RTFM??? Sorry, you've got me there. It's an Orange account because I was
Freeserve and then it became Wanadoo and now it's Orange. I used them
because
I thought that my monthly broadband subscription would cover it and I
could
just swop accounts over. Apparently you can't but by then I'd set up this
new
one - it's free anyway . I've searched their web pages in vain and I know
what you mean about POP3 becuase I found the old Freeserve web page
really
helpful. But the Orange one isn't and even though I e-mailed them and
asked I
just got a bog standard reply.


Chris, RTFM is one way of saying read the manual.

Now you talk about Orange webmail, they do not and never have been available
in OE even the fsmail.net accounts did not work.

What sort of account did you want to swap over, but could not?

All my old fsmail accounts still are accessible from the orange web site.

Get back.
--
Regards Steve.
MS-MVP. OE. [DTS]

Hmm (http://setup.orange.co.uk/FAQ/default.html) but then IANAGU (I am not a GPRS user).

But not being an Orange subscriber either (http://web.o2.ie/personal/help/conne...t/outlook.jsp), I could not say
what the names of the servers would be. Other POP3 accounts can be added so one would assume the details for Orange are accessible
from the Orange handset.

BTW, the above link is *not* navigable via the provider's website (Google to the rescue).

"ChrisD" wrote in message ...
RTFM??? Sorry, you've got me there. It's an Orange account because I was
Freeserve and then it became Wanadoo and now it's Orange. I used them because
I thought that my monthly broadband subscription would cover it and I could
just swop accounts over. Apparently you can't but by then I'd set up this new
one - it's free anyway . I've searched their web pages in vain and I know
what you mean about POP3 becuase I found the old Freeserve web page really
helpful. But the Orange one isn't and even though I e-mailed them and asked I
just got a bog standard reply.

"Capomaestro" wrote:

Yes. Blindingly obvious you did not RTFM the Help pages of the web-mail service. Try searching them for 'POP3'.

You will be surprised to learn you are not alone.

"Ron Sommer" wrote in message ...
Web-based will probably be http, not pop.
What company?
--
Ron Sommer

"ChrisD" wrote in message
...
: This is probably blindingly obvious to most people, but here goes. I have
a
: conventional e-mail account which I use Outlook Express to access. Can I
use
: OE to access my new web-based e-mail account? Do I just add it as another
: account? What are the POP and SMTP thingys when I get to the box for
incoming
: and outgoing mail? What do I put in there?
: Cheers