Setting up E-mail Clients

Setting up E-mail Clients

WorkgroupMail may be used in conjunction with any POP3 enabled e-mail client. This includes Outlook, Outlook Express and most other Internet enabled mail clients.

Once WorkgroupMail is configured so that it can communicate with the ISP and all the user accounts have been set up in the WorkgroupMail administrator, you are now ready to set up the e-mail clients. All e-mail clients will provide you with a way to specify the SMTP (outgoing mail) and POP3 (incoming mail) servers and to enter an account name and password to gain access to the POP3 account. To configure the e-mail client to work with WorkgroupMail, you should specify the four pieces of information as follows:

SMTP Server (Outgoing mail) This should be set to the IP address of the computer running WorkgroupMail.

POP3 Server (Incoming mail) This should also be set to the IP address of the computer running WorkgroupMail.

Account name If you double click on the user in the WorkgroupMail administrator, whose e-mail client you are configuring, the User property sheet will be displayed. At the bottom of the Details page you will see Local POP3 information. The contents of the Account Name field is what you should enter into the Account Name field of the mail client settings.

Password If you double click on the user in the WorkgroupMail administrator, whose e-mail client you are configuring, the User property sheet will be displayed. At the bottom of the Details page you will see Local POP3 information. The contents of the Password field is what you should enter into the Password field of the mail client settings.

Once this information has been entered, you should be able to check for new mail in the mail client. You should also be able to compose a message and send it. You will see it appear as a Sent Message in the WorkgroupMail administrator.


SMTP Server (Outgoing mail)	This should be set to the IP address of the computer running WorkgroupMail.
POP3 Server (Incoming mail)	This should also be set to the IP address of the computer running WorkgroupMail.
Account name	If you double click on the user in the WorkgroupMail administrator, whose e-mail client you are configuring, the User property sheet will be displayed. At the bottom of the Details page you will see Local POP3 information. The contents of the Account Name field is what you should enter into the Account Name field of the mail client settings.
Password	If you double click on the user in the WorkgroupMail administrator, whose e-mail client you are configuring, the User property sheet will be displayed. At the bottom of the Details page you will see Local POP3 information. The contents of the Password field is what you should enter into the Password field of the mail client settings.