StormDesigns.com

Following Screen Shots Apply to email settings using
Windows XP and MicroSoft Outlook Express software.
Other Mail Software (Apple Mail) coming soon!

For those of you experienced in configuring your email clients the following data may include all of the information you will require:
Name:	How you want your name to appear to recipients
ie.	Zelda Schmidmeier
User ID:	Should be your full email address including domain name
ie.	zschmid@schmidmeier.com
Incoming Server	(AKA pop3 server) mail.yourdomainname.com
ie.	mail.schmidmeier.com
Outgoing Server	(AKA SMTP server) mail.yourdomainname.com
ie.	mail.schmidmeier.com
Password	If you set up your computer to remember this info, please make sure your computer is secure.
ie.	••••••• (don't tell anyone - shhhh!)
webmail	Please visit myemail.stormd.com as a means of collecting your email remotely.
Admin	Please visit myadmin.stormd.com to add email accounts or change server settings (use with caution)
Authentication!	This is important because a lot of people have trouble with this idea. Our server requires authentication! What that means, is that our server requires a user id and password in order to send out email. If your outlook client is not set up to use authentication you will NOT BE ABLE TO SEND OUT EMAIL! The setting that applies means that authentication is ON (but NOT SSL authentication aka secure authentication) and it uses same info as incoming mail server (which is your full user id including name@domain.com) and your complete, case sensitive password. Some mail software allows you to select "Use same settings as incoming mail" which may be easiest. Contact us if you need assistance with this or if you have any challenges in sending or receiving your email.

1. Launch Outlook, depending on your computer, there may be various options for this, and there may be more than one copy of outlook and it's related settings on your system. However you commonly launch outlook, be consistent and always try to do that the same way.

2. Under the tools menu you will either need to expand the menu (two down arrows on a blue button) or click on "Email Accounts...".

3. Next through the genie (dialog window) that appears, click on "view or change existing accounts" and select the "Next >" button.

4. from herre click on "Add" and select "POP3" and Next.

5. The following page needs several pieces of information, add your name, email address, incoming server (mail.tbmusic.net) and outgoing mail server (mail.tbmusic.net).

6. The logon information is very important, your user name on our server is your FULL EMAIL ADDRESS. and you should know your password.

7. I commonly suggest NOT selecting that the computer remember your password as that commonly means that people will forget their password. It is often better to use it regularly so that you know it when or if you need it.

8. DO NOT SELECT (leave unchecked) the Log on using Secure Password Authentication. This does not apply to standard email services, but DO click on "More Settings".

9. From here we suggest that you give the account a "Mail Account Name" you will associate with this email account, such as "LeChana's TB Music". and that your organization name and reply email address are set appropriate to your account.

10. (VERY IMPORTANT) Click the "Outgoing Server Tab" and select (Check) "My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication. Also the button for "Use same settings as outgoing mail server" should be checked.

11. Last you may want to review the "Advanced" tab if only to review the "Delivery" settings. Sometimes it is a good idea to "Leave a copy of messages on the server" for 3 - 5 days - "just in case". If left longer than that, you can greatly increase the risk of over-filling the quota of your mailbox, but this will allow some time in case your computer has a problem and you need to see mail that was recently sent and being worked with.

12. Click OK and you should be ready to send and receive email through this email acccount.

13. You may wish to review the process again and possibly set this new email as your "default" which will then automatically use this as the initial email that you'll address "from".

When you create a new message, it will be one of the addresses from which you can choose to select mail. You may choose to create a signature for that email address as well as address specific filters and rules. when you create a new message, the from line should indicate this address, or have an arrow from which you can select this account from any others established in your outlook software.