Setting Up E-Mail (Windows 95/98)

To set up any Internet mail application, you only need to know three things - your e-mail address, the address of your mail server, and your login information.

Your Email Address: This is made up of your username, followed by "@spectranet.ca". So, if your username were jqpublic, then your email address would be jqpublic@spectranet.ca
Mail Server Addresses: Variously known as a Mail Server, Incoming Mail Server, Outgoing Mail Server, POP3 Server, or SMTP Server.
Incoming / POP3: in.spectranet.ca
Outgoing / SMTP: out.spectranet.ca
Your Login Information: You log in to the mail server using the same username and password with which you dial in. So, if you were assigned the username jqpublic and your password was password (not recommended), then you would log in to the mail server as jqpublic with the password password.

Microsoft Internet Mail

If this is the first time that Microsoft Internet Mail has been run, then you should see a Setup Wizard, which will guide you through the setup process. To complete the Wizard, enter the following information at each step.

Name: your name, as you would like people to see it when you e-mail them.
E-mail address: your_id@spectranet.ca (Click Next)
Incoming Mail (POP3): in.spectranet.ca
Outgoing Mail (SMTP): out.spectranet.ca (Click Next)
E-mail Account: your_id
Password: your password. (Click Next)
If you use a modem to connect to the Internet, select "I use a modem to access my email", and select "Spectranet" under "Use the following Dial-Up Networking connection". (Click Next)
Click Finish.

If you have not yet set up your Spectranet connection, then you will not see Spectranet in the drop-down menu. To add it, click on the "Add" button, and follow the setup directions here. Don't do this if Spectranet is already available; it will only confuse things later on.

If the Wizard does not appear, you will have to configure the account manually. If this is the case, you may have to replace old settings with the proper Spectranet addresses. To do this, click on the Mail menu, and select Options. Once the options are on the screen, click on the Server tab, and use the information listed above. To ensure that Internet Mail is using the proper dial-up connection, go to the Connection tab, and change the settings to match the last item in the Wizard setup, above.

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Microsoft Outlook Express (v4.0)

If this is the first time that Microsoft Outlook Express has been run, then you should see a Setup Wizard, which will guide you through the setup process. To complete the Wizard, enter the following information at each step.

Name: your name, as you would like people to see it when you e-mail them. (Click Next)
E-mail address: your_id@spectranet.ca (Click Next)
My incoming mail server is a POP3 server.
Incoming Mail (POP3 or IMAP): in.spectranet.ca
Outgoing Mail (SMTP): out.spectranet.ca (Click Next)
Select Log on using.
POP account name: your_id
Password: your password. (Click Next)
Account name: in.spectranet.ca will suffice. (Click Next)
If you use a modem to connect to the Internet, select "Connect using my phone line". (Click Next)
If you have set up your Spectranet connection, select "Use an existing dial-up connection", select Spectranet, and click Next. Otherwise, select "Create a new dial-up connection", and follow the instructions found here. (Click Next)
Click Finish.

If the Wizard does not appear, you will have to configure the account manually. If this is the case, click on the Tools menu, and select Accounts. When the Internet Accounts window is displayed, click on the Mail tab. To remove old mail accounts, highlight them and then click "Remove". To set up a new Spectranet account, click "Add" and select Mail... from the menu that pops up. A Wizard will begin, which matches the steps listed immediately above. To manually modify the properties for your Spectranet mail account, click on it and then select "Properties". The information listed above can be found on the General, Servers, and Connection tabs.

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Netscape Navigator Mail (v2 & 3)

Netscape Navigator comes with its own integrated e-mail package, which has many of the same features as Microsoft Internet Mail. To set up Netscape Mail, simply run Netscape, pull down the Options menu, and select Mail and News Preferences. When the Preferences window comes up, select Servers at the top, and fill in the server names as shown below. Make sure to put your username in the "POP3 User Name" field.

If you want Netscape to check mail for you whenever you are online, set "Check for Mail" to "Every", and specify how often you want to check for new mail. If this is not set, Netscape will only check your mailbox when you press the "Get Mail" button. Please note that this will only work while you are online with Spectranet, as Netscape has no way of dialing in for you.

After filling in Servers, select Identity at the top and fill in your name and email address. Click OK when finished.

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Netscape Communicator Mail

Netscape Communicator offers an integrated Internet package, including the Navigator browser, a news reader, a hypertext composer, and the Messenger e-mail client. Since Messenger does not have its own setup wizard, you'll have to enter the necessary information manually. The following instructions provide a quick, easy, and mostly harmless way to set up Communicator (v4.5 and up) as your e-mail client. Earlier versions of Communicator have a slightly different structure once you get into the Mail preferences, but once it's in front of you it shouldn't be too hard to figure out what goes where.

Click on Edit, and then click Preferences
Click on the "+" beside Mail and Newsgroups (located in the vertical menu at left).
Click on Identity.
Fill in your name and e-mail address.
Click on Mail Servers.
Click on Add.
Server Name: in.spectranet.ca
Server Type: POP3 Server
Enter your username in the "User Name" field. If you would like Communicator to save your password after the first time you use it, check off "Remember password".
Click OK.
Outgoing mail (SMTP) server: out.spectranet.ca
The "Outgoing mail server user name" is not required.
The rest of the options can be left at their default settings. Click OK to finish the process.

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Eudora

Eudora Pro and Eudora Light (freeware) offer simple alternatives to using your browser as a mail-reader. They are self-contained e-mail packages which operate independently from Internet Explorer or Netscape. Free downloads of Eudora Light are available from Qualcomm, and from our own download site.

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Other Mail Programs

Spectranet does not recommend or offer technical support for any program other than those listed above. However, if you are using something else, such as Microsoft Exchange Server, Pegasus Mail or PINE, then you should be able to set them up using the information given above.