Setting up POP mail account in Opera & Netsacpe

[videobruce 0]

I have a mail account with Verizon DSL but they don't support Opera or Netscape V6.2 (only V4.73). I'm confused between the damn acronyms used in POP mail (pay, non web based or whatever you want to call it).

 

Anywhere I can go to learn about the terms and how NOT to get them mixed up which is easy to do. There seems to be numerous entries of 'name' in the so called wizards used that gets confusing. My personal name, my nickname, the username Verizion gave me, or my e-mail name???

I use Opera all the time but their help doesn't really answer the questions I have. I am always missing something and can't get it to work.

 

I have grown tired of the poor web based services between being slow, not sending jpegs properly all the time, limiting your mail attachments size and not being to interact with web page e-mail links that use POP mail.

[Sampson 0]

Netscape and Opera are browsers. While they have email components, you are not limited to them, nor do you ever have to use them. There are email programs, many are shareware, that you might find easier to use.

 

But, if you have a Windows machine, you have Outlook Express as a given. Almost every email service gives a step by step instruction on how to use it. It's there so experiment with it.

 

In Outlook Express, each email service you have is called an account. As far as the wizards, forget the names. You will usually need only four pieces of information - 1)your email address (always has the @ sign in it), 2)the password for the email address, 3) the incoming server parameter (pop), and 4)the outgoing server (smtp) parameter.

 

Numbers 1 and 2 should be no challenge to you. Numbers 3 and 4 are the confusing part because every email server wishes to be addressed differently. Ususally on the website of the service, they will provide the parameters. For example, for Verizon, if you are on the Atlantic bell system, the incoming (pop) might be mailbox.atlanticbell.net or is could be mail.verizon.net. The provider will give you the parameter. For the outgoing server (smtp) it might be smtp.verizon.net. How you address the server can only be known if you look it up at the website providing the service. For every email account you have, how you address the server for that account will be specific to it.

 

The last thing you need to know is the Connection. In your case because it is DSL, your default account is the one you have with Verizon and you would choose Local Area Lan. If you have other accounts, you can add them, giving the address, password, the specific incoming and outgoing servers, but for connectivity, choose any open connection (not dialup) We you seek your email, it will first go to Verizon, then to every account listed one after another through the original Verizon connection.

 

This is probably as clear as mud. But experiment with Outlook express, it isn't rocket science. (It is just as confusing though at times as you noted.)