Hi Tim/Christie,
Squirrelmail is a web interface to an IMAP mail server which provides functionality similar to a web client (e.g. Outlook Express). However, in instances where SM service is provided, it is not a given that you will also have access to this same account within an email client. The reverse is also true: you can't just access web-based email in an email client unless the service is specifically setup to allow this (I don't know of any popular web-based email services such as Hotmail or Yahoo that allow this).
In instances where Squirremail is provided as a means to check your email, obviously you don't have to configure anything - this is one of the significant perks of a web based system. Configuring an email client, as you have discovered, requires knowing some settings. However, there is no way we can tell you what those settings are based on how you interact with Squirrelmail, they are completely different means of handling email.
On Dec 1, 2004, at 11:55 PM, Tim Cook wrote:
I have my website up and running and have yet to figure out how to get my email working. I am trying to set it up in Outlook Express. I have already did the autoconfiguration.
Now, please bare with me as I am totally lost here. I know nothing of the info they are requesting in order to make this work.
Here is a break down of the info I need, but do not know which hat to pull it out of.
Ok. I first go to Outlook Express and click the TOOLS tab at the top of the page. Then click ACCOUNTS. I then choose ADD to add a new email address. Choose my display name, Click NEXT and type in my email address. This is the email address that I am trying to get to work, right? Ok....
I hit NEXT and am then asked whether my incoming mail server is IMAP, POP3 or HTTP. I believe it is IMAP. Correct??? I click IMAP and move down to the first text box where it asks for my INCOMING MAIL SERVER. I have no idea what to put here. I know it is mail.ispserver.com but do not know what to type instead of "ispserver". I use MSN. Is this what I put??? It then asks me for my OUTGOING (SMTP) MAIL SERVER. Again, I do not know what to put here.
Moving along... I hit the NEXT button and am then asked for the account name and password that my internet service provided has given me. Again, I use MSN, so do I use my MSN account info and password?
I have tried every combination I could possibly think of. I do not know what IMAP I have what addies to use or even where to find them. I have searched all over the OE page, Squirrelmail page as well as the SavingsHosting website that I purchase my domain from and could find nothing to help me. I have chatted with MSN, emailed several, etc....... I've been told by MSN to use HTTP (not POP3 or IMAP), told by SAVINGSHOSTING that all I had to do was do the autoconfig, which did not set everything up.
Please guide me! I need to know EXACTLY what to type into those textfields. Or atleast where I can find that info. Please don't say "Put your so-and-so address here" when I do not know what the so-and-so address is.
On the verge of going insane.... Christie
BTW.. Just to see if it worked... I did hook up my hotmail acct in Outlook Express and it works perfectly. I used the HTTP option for it though. But it does work! So I know that my problem with my other is not knowing what address to use and where to use them.
-------------------------------------------------------
SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide
Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users.
Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/
--
squirrelmail-users mailing list
Posting Guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/wiki/wiki.php?MailingListPostingGuidelines
List Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
List Archives: http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user
List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995
List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
-------------------------------------------------------
SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide
Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users.
Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/
--
squirrelmail-users mailing list
Posting Guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/wiki/wiki.php?MailingListPostingGuidelines
List Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
List Archives: http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user
List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995
List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
