Set-up for Outlook Express 5/6
Check your mail settings.
It is essential that email settings are correct when sending mail. Installing the Karoo software should automatically set up an email account for you. To check that the details for an existing email account are correct follow the steps below.
1. Select 'Tools', then 'Accounts' from the Outlook Express menu bar.
2. Highlight the appropriate account (which will usually be listed as 'pop.karoo.co.uk') by clicking on it with your mouse, then select 'Properties'.
3. From the Properties box, click on the 'General' tab at the top. Make sure that the name, organisation, email address, and reply to address that you want to appear on your emails is correct. The account is usually labelled 'pop.karoo.co.uk', but this is not important.
4. Now click on the 'Server' tab at the top.
- The outgoing mail server (SMTP) should be set to smtp.karoo.co.uk
- The incoming mail server (POP) should be set to pop.karoo.co.uk
- In the 'Incoming Mail Server' section, 'Logon using' should be selected, and you should enter your username and password in the boxes provided.
- Your username and password were chosen when you set up your account with Karoo.
- As a guide, if your email address was, for example, 'myname@username.karoo.co.uk', your username would be 'username@username.karoo.co.uk'. Your password is case sensitive, so you must enter it in lower case letters.
- 'Logon using Secure Password Authentication' should not be selected.
- In the 'Outgoing mail' section, the 'My server requires authentication' option should not be selected.
5. Now click on the 'Connection' tab at the top.
Using Newsgroups in Outlook Express
1. Set up your news account
- To use newsgroups, you need to set up a Karoo News account in Outlook Express:
- Click on the 'Tools' menu and select 'Accounts'.
- Now click on the 'News' tab.
- Click on the 'Add' button on the right-hand side and select 'News'.
- You will have to fill in a series of boxes and press 'OK' to each one.
- For your name and email address, enter your name and your Karoo email address. These will identify you if you post messages to the newsgroups.
- For News (NNTP) server, enter 'news.karoo.co.uk'
- Enter a friendly name (say, 'Karoo News').
- And finally select to connect using a phoneline and select your Karoo connection from the next box.
You should now be able to access Karoo newsgroups.
2. Read newsgroups
- To read news, first download the list of Karoo newsgroups:
- Make sure you are connected to Karoo, then click on the 'Tools' menu in Outlook Express.
- Select 'Newsgroups' - this will start Outlook Express downloading the list of newsgroups.
- You can now select which groups to display.
