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Configuring your email client: Thunderbird

2009-02-03T21:30:06Z

This article will take a quick and in depth look into setting up Thunderbird with your Brick Studios email.

Info you will need:

• Your domain name, e.g. brickstudios.com
• Your email address.
• Your email password.

1. Open Thunderbird.

2. From the Tools menu, choose Account Settings…

3. Click the Add Account button.

4. Select Email account and click the Next Button.

5. Enter Your Name as you want it to appear.
Enter your full email address username@your-domain-name.com in the ‘Email address:’ field.
Click on the Next button.

6. Select POP3 or IMAP
Enter mail.your-domain-name.com in the ‘Incoming Server:’ field.
Click on the Next button.

7. Enter your full email address username@your-domain-name.com in the Incoming User Name field.
Click on the Next button.

8. Enter the name you want to refer to this email account in the Account Name field.
Click on the Next button.

9. You are almost done setting up your email. Click Next

10. Highlight the Outgoing Server (SMTP) Click on the Edit button.

11. Select the Use name and password check box
Fill in your entire email address in the User Name field.
Click on OK
Close the Account Settings window

12. Congratulations, you have completed the setup of your Thunderbird email program.

Configuring your email client: Outlook 2007

2009-02-02T20:53:03Z

This article will take a quick and in depth look into setting up Outlook 2007 with your Brick Studios email.

Info you will need:

• Your domain name, e.g. brickstudios.com
• Your email address.
• Your email password.

1. Open Outlook 2007.

2. Click the Tools menu, and select Account Settings.

3. Click on the Email tab and click on the “New…” button.

4. Next, select POP3, IMAP or HTTP and click Next.

5. On the Auto Account Setup window check the Manually configure server settings or additional server types and click Next.

NOTE: Brick Studios does not support the Auto Account Setup on our mail servers, so you should not use the Auto Account Setup feature.

6. Select Internet E-mail option and click Next.

7. Fill in the following fields:  
• Enter Your Name as you want it to appear.
• Enter your full email address username@yourdomainname.com  in the Email Address field.
• Select POP3 or IMAP.
• Enter mail.yourdomainname.com in the Incoming mail (POP3, IMAP) server: field.
• Enter mail.yourdomainname.com in the Outgoing mail (SMTP) server field.
• Enter your username username@yourdomainname.com in the Account name field.
• Enter your email password in the Password field.

8. Perform the following steps:
• Click on More Settings… 
• Click on the Outgoing Server tab.
• Check My outgoing server (SMTP) Requires Authentication
• Make sure Use same setting as my incoming mail server is also checked.
• Click on OK.

9. Click the Test Account Settings button and you should see all items with green check marks.
Click the Close Button to close the test window.  
Click OK to save your settings.

10. Congratulations. You have finished the setup of your email account.  
Click Finish to close the setup wizard.

Setting Up an Email Account on an iPhone or iPod Touch

2009-02-02T20:52:17Z

This article will take a quick and in depth look into setting up an iPhone or iPod Touch with your Brick Studios email.

Info you will need:

• Your domain name, e.g. brickstudios.com
• Your email address.
• Your email password.

You can set up and make changes to an email account directly on the iPhone or the iPod Touch. You will simply need the standard email account information: username, password, and the incoming and outgoing mail server host information for your domain, e.g. mail.your-domain-name.com.

Enter account settings directly on iPhone

1. If this is the first account you’re setting up on the iPhone or the iPod Touch, tap Mail. Otherwise, from the Home screen choose Settings > Mail > Accounts > Add Account.

2. Choose your email account type. For setting up email to work with your Brick Studios service choose Other.

3. Select server type - IMAP or POP, and enter account information.

Fill in your information:
• Name
• Address username@your-domain-name.com
• Description
• Incoming Mail Server Host Name mail.your-domain-name.com
• User Name username@your-domain-name.com
• Password

Fill in your information:

• Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP) Host Name mail.your-domain-name.com
• User Name username@your-domain-name.com
• Password
• and Tap Save to save the entered information.

5. Upon successful completion of the mailbox setup you are taken back to the Mail Settings screen.

6. If you used the IMAP setting follow the additional steps below:

To download the Inbox folders such as the Sent Items, from the Home screen choose Settings > Mail > choose your account.

And click on Advanced, then for the IMAP Path Prefix enter INBOX in all capital letters.

You may also want your iPhone or iPod Touch to store your “Sent” and “Draft” messages on the server you can also change this setting in the advanced settings area.

Configuring your email client: Outlook 2003

2009-02-02T20:50:31Z

This article will take a quick and in depth look into setting up Outlook 2003 with your Brick Studios email.

Info you will need:

• Your domain name, e.g. brickstudios.com
• Your email address.
• Your email password.

1. Open Outlook 2003.

2. Click the Tools menu and select E-mail Accounts….

3. Click Add a new e-mail account and then click Next.

4. Select POP3 or IMAP and click Next.

5. Fill in the following fields:

• Enter Your Name as you want it to appear.
• Enter your full email address username@your-domain-name.com in the Email address: field.
• Enter your username username@your-domain-name.com in the Account Name: field.
• Enter your email password in the Password field.
• Enter mail.your-domain-name.com in the Incoming mail (POP3, IMAP) server: field.
• Enter mail.your-domain-name.com in the Outgoing mail (SMTP) server: field.

6. Perform the following steps:
• Click on More Settings…
• Click on the Outgoing Server tab.
• Check My outgoing server (SMTP) Requires Authentication.
• Make sure Use same settings as my incoming mail server is also checked.
• Click on OK.

7. Click the Test Account Settings button and you should see all items with green check marks. Click Close to close the test window.

8. Click Next to save your settings.

9. Congratulations. You have finished the setup of your email account. Click Finish to close the Setup Wizard.