Blue Knights® - Ontario VIII

Huronia Chapter

Ontario VIII e-mail access

To access your email via your internet browser, go to http://bk-ontarioviii.org/webmail/ and then enter your entire email address as the user name and then enter your password.

To set up your Microsoft Outlook Express to check your Ont VIII email account, follow the steps below.  Microsoft Outlook is the same steps.  The incoming and outgoing mail server names are both mail.bk-ontarioviii.org

Netscape set-up is listed below the Outlook set-up.

To configure a new Outlook Express account, follow the instructions below.

1. Launch Outlook Express

   

    

2. Click Tools --> Accounts, The Accounts window appears

    

3. Click the Mail tab
   
   

    

4. Click the Add button then choose Mail, the Internet Connection Wizard appears

   
   
   

    

5. As your Display Name, enter the name you want others to see in the from: field when you send Email, then click Next
   
   

    

6. Enter your Email address (username@rogers.com), then click Next

   

    

7. Do not change the value beside My incoming mail server is a. It should remain set to POP3.
8. Input pop into the Incoming mail (POP3) server field. Set your incoming mail server to pop.
9. Input smtp into the Outgoing mail (SMTP) server field.
10. Click Next
    
    Note: If you are running a home network your Email settings need to be slightly different than those listed above. Click here to obtain your network-compatible Email and News settings.
    
    

     

11. Enter your Email ID in the Account Name field. Your Email ID is the portion of your Email address before "@rogers.com". In this case, the Email address is "johnnyq@rogers.com" so the Email ID is "johnnyq".
12. Enter your email account password (which is cAsE sEnSiTiVe). The new Email account password can be found on your Transition Guide surface mailing. The password is also the last 8 digits of your account number. When entered, the password is displayed as a series of asterisks (****), and you can set Outlook Express to remember your password if you don't want to type it in every time you check for new messages)
13. Ensure the Log On Using Secure Password Authentication box is not checked
    
14. Click Next
    
    

     

15. Click Finish, the Internet Connection Wizard will close
    
    
    
    
16. The Internet Accounts window should still be open. If it is not, click
    Tools --> Accounts to open it.
17. Click the Mail tab, the Mail Accounts window appears
    
    
    
    
18. In the large window where the mail accounts appear, click on the name of the account you just added, then click the Properties button, the account properties window appears
    
    
    
    
19. Click the Servers tab
    
    
    
    
20. Check the box beside My server requires authentication, then click the Settings button. The Outgoing Mail Server window appears
    
    
    
    
21. Select Use same settings as my incoming mail server and click OK. The account properties window re-appears
    
    
    
    
22. Click Apply, then OK to close the properties window. The Internet Accounts window will reappear.
    
    
    
    
23. From the Internet Accounts window, click on your newly created @rogers.com Email account, the account will highlight.
24. With your new @rogers.com Email address selected. click on Set As Default. Your Rogers.com Email address is now your default mail account.
25. Click Close to exit the Internet Accounts window, your Email conversion is complete.

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Last modified: February 11, 2007