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Checking Your
Email from Home: Outlook Express for Macintosh
Outlook Express is a free email client that comes with Microsoft Internet
Explorer. It is also our recommended email client.
Please note: these instructions require Outlook
Express version 5.0.6. If you do not have this version, you can download the latest
from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/.
Once you have a version of Outlook Express installed, you
should have an Outlook Express icon on your desktop. Open Outlook Express.
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Go to the Tools menu and choose the Accounts
option.
If you do not see an Accounts option under the Tools menu, you do
not have version 5.0.6 of Outlook Express. Download and install it, then go
through this instruction again.
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A window will open up listing your email
accounts. To create an account for your HDS email, click the New button.
![[Illustration of Accounts window]](../images/doc_images/oe_mac_accounts_1.jpg)
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Another small window will open up. Select IMAP in the
Account type drop-down list. Click OK.
![[Illustration of New Account window and the Account type drop-down menu]](../images/doc_images/oe_mac_imap_2.jpg)
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Choose the Account
Settings tab. Enter a name for your Outlook Express Account. Under
Personal Information, enter your name as you would like it to appear on
messages. Then enter your full HDS email address. In the Receiving mail
section, enter your username (without the "@hds.harvard.edu"),
the name of the HDS email server, which is mail.hds.harvard.edu, and
your password. Finally, in the Sending mail section, enter
mail.hds.harvard.edu as the name of the SMTP server. Then click the button
that says "Click here for advanced sending options."
![[Illustration of the Edit Account window]](../images/doc_images/oe_mac_edit_account_3.jpg)
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At this point, another window will open up. Put a check mark in the box next to "SMTP
server requires authentication." Leave all other options as they are.
By selecting "Use same settings as incoming mail server," you
will not need to enter your username and password again.
![[Illustration of the SMTP settings window]](../images/doc_images/oe_mac_smtp_4.jpg)
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Close the window.
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You will be returned to the previous window.
Click OK.
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You will be returned the Accounts window. Close
it.
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You should now be back to the regular Outlook
Express window and should be ready to send mail.
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