Accessing your RYA Online e-mail account via Outlook Express By default access to RYA Online's e-mail accounts is via the webmail service through your web browser. You can however access your RYA Online e-mail account via a POP3 mail client. Please Note that if you use a POP3 mail client to access your RYA Online e-mail account, you will only be able to send e-mail when you dial in to RYA Online's system direct. Due to the need for anti-spam rules (to stop unsolicited e-mail being relayed off our server) the RYA Online mail server will only accept e-mail for sending that comes from a valid IP address on the RYA Online system. We do not supply and so therefore can not support Eudora software, however we have compiled the following instructions to help you configure Eudora to access your RYA Online e-mail account. (The following instructions are for Outlook Express version 5. If you are running any other version of Outlook Express, then these instructions will only be a guideline.) 1) Open your copy of Outlook Express, go to the Tools menu and click Accounts. 2) Click on the Add button and select Mail. 3) You will be presented with the Your Name screen. Set the Display Name as your name then click the Next button. 4) You will be presented with the Internet E-mail Address screen. Tick the I already have an e-mail address that I'd like to use box and set the E-mail Address as your e-mail account@rya-online.net then click the Next button. 5) You will be presented with the E-mail Server Names screen. Set the My incoming mail server is a to POP3 and make the both the Incoming Mail Server and Outgoing mail server post.rya-online.net then click the Next button. 6) You will be presented with the Internet Mail Logon screen. Set the Account Name as your e-mail account (without the @rya-online.net) and set the Password as your password. Please note the account and password are case sensitive and must be entered exactly as they were setup. If you type it in uppercase and it should be lowercase, or visa versa, it will fail. If you want Outlook Express to remember your password then tick the Remember Password box, if you want Outlook Express to prompt you for your password every time you check mail, leave it un-ticked then click the Next button. 7) You will be presented with the Congradulations screen. Click the Finish button. 8) You will now see a post.rya-online.net entry. Click to highlight it then click on the Properties button. 9) You will be presented with the General screen (see Fig 1). Fig 1 10) Set the Organisation as your organisation, or RYA Online User and set the Reply address the same as the E-mail address then click on the Servers tab at the top of the screen. 11) You will be confronted with the Server screen (see Fig 2). Fig 2 12) The add mail wizard will have configured this automatically, just double check the settings are as per the screen shot above, then click on the Connection tab at the top of the screen. 13) You will be presented with the Connection screen (see Fig 3). Fig 3 14) Tick the box Always connect to this account using and in the drop down box below find the Dial Up Networking connection RYA Online, then click on the check Advanced tab at the top of the screen. 15) You will be presented with the Advanced screen (see Fig 4). Fig 4 14) Increase the Server Timeouts to Long (5 minutes). Just drag the bar to the far right, then click on the check Advanced tab at the top of the screen. If you want copies of your messages left on the server then tick the Leave a copy of messages on server box, note however that if you set this on, specify a time to keep the e-mails for, using the Remove from server after box. Click on the OK button to complete. You need to close down and restart Outlook Express for the changes to take afftect. Outlook Express is now setup to access your RYA Online e-mail address. If you have any difficulties with Outlook Express, please contact Microsoft's helpline, as RYA Online do not supply or support this software in any way.