This article explains how to set up Microsoft Outlook to collect your e-mail from your ServeLink site and download it to your computer using the POP3 protocol.  You will have already created an email account in the server control panel.  The set up dialog to send and receive mail with Microsoft Outlook 2003 can be found within Outlook at Tools > E-mail Accounts:



Choose the  "Add a new e-mail account" radio button and press "Next":



Choose the "POP3" radio button and press "Next":



The next screen should be filled out like this, using the mail server name of your own site which will be like mail.yoursitename.com as the "Incoming Mail Server (POP3)" setting. 

Many major ISPs insist that you use their mail servers to send mail, so it's easiest to do that for the "Outgoing mail server (SMTP)" setting, there is more help with outgoing server names here

Be sure to use your full e-mail address as the user name. 



Press "Next" again and you're done.  If you need to use our mail servers to send the mail then read on.





Using our SMTP servers
There are just a couple of extra steps if you wish to use our SMTP servers, assuming your ISP will permit SMTP traffic to pass on port 25.  First, back at the main set up screen, set the "Outgoing mail server (SMTP)" setting to be the same as the "Incoming mail server (POP3)" that you set earlier:



Then press the "More Settings" button, and choose the "Outgoing Server" tab in the dialog that pops up. Complete that screen like this and press "OK":