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Setting Up Outlook 2007

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Hello Everyone

Here are the instructions for setting up Outlook 2007 to get email from your REW hosted email account.

If you haven't previously set up Outlook it will prompt you with the New Mail Account Wizard when you open it. If it doesn't, Go to the Tools menu -> Account Settings.

Step 1

On the E-mail tab click the New button.

Step 2

Check the Manually configure server settings or additional server types and click next.

Step 3

Check Internet E-mail and click next

Step 4

User Information: Enter your Name as you would like it to appear on outgoing mail and your email address.

Server Information: Enter your mail servers. These will be mail.yourdomain.com. Select POP3 for your incoming server.

Logon Information: Enter your user name. This…

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Posted: 3 months ago, Comments: 0, Average Rating: 5 Views: 317

Setting Up Outlook 2003

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Hello Everyone

Here are the instructions for setting up Outlook 2003 to get email from your REW hosted email account.

If you haven't previously set up Outlook it will prompt you with the New Mail Account Wizard when you open it. If it doesn't, Go to the Tools menu -> Email Accounts.

Step 1

Select Add a new email account.

Step 2

Select POP3 as the account type.

Step 3

User Information: Enter your Name as you would like it to appear on outgoing mail and your email address.

Server Information: Enter your mail servers. These will be mail.yourdomain.com.

Logon Information: Enter your account name. This is your full email address. Enter your password.

Step 4

Click More Settings

Under the Outgoing Server tab check My outgoing server requires…

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Posted: 3 months ago, Comments: 0, Average Rating: 5 Views: 335

Email FAQ

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Hello Everyone

Here are some frequently asked questions about email hosted with REW on our servers at Rackspace. If you are still hosted on the old Planet servers your settings will be slightly different.

How do I get to webmail?

We actually have two different webmail programs.

Horde is the preferred option as it is supported by our server company. To access your Horde webmail go to webmail.example.com/ (where example is your domain name). Then sign in with your full email address (john@example.com) and your password.

SquirrelMail is much simpler than Horde and some find it easier to use. To access your SquirrelMail webmail go to www.example.com/webmail (where example is your domain name). Then sign in with your full email address (john@example.com)…

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Posted: 3 months ago, Comments: 0, Average Rating: 5 Views: 539

Setting Up Outlook Express

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Hello Everyone

Here are the instructions for setting up Outlook Express to get email from your REW hosted email account.

If you haven't previously set up Outlook it will prompt you with the New Mail Account Wizard when you open it. If it doesn't, Go to the Tools menu -> Accounts. Go to the Mail tab and click the Add button on the right and select Mail.

Step 1

Enter your Name as you would like it to appear on outgoing mail.

Step 2

Enter your email address.

Step 3

Enter your mail servers. These will be mail.yourdomain.com. Select POP3 for your incoming server.

Step 4

Enter your account name. This is your full email address.

Enter your password.

Click Finish.

Step 5

Now we need to change some other settings. In the Tools menu go to…

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Posted: 3 months ago, Comments: 0, Average Rating: 5 Views: 294

Setting Up Mozilla Thunderbird

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Hello Everyone

Here are the instructions for setting up Mozilla Thunderbird to get email from your REW hosted email account.

If you haven't previously set up Thunderbird it will prompt you with the Account Wizard when you open it. If it doesn't, Go to the Tools menu -> Account Settings. Click the Add Account button.

Step 1

Select Email account and hit next.

Step 2

Enter your Name as you would like it to appear on outgoing mail.

Enter your email address.

Step 3

Enter your mail servers. These will be mail.yourdomain.com. Select POP3 for your incoming server.

If you have previously set up email accounts you will not be able to set your Outgoing server here. See Step 7 at the bottom for how to do this.

Step 4

Enter your user name. This is…

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Posted: 3 months ago, Comments: 0, Average Rating: 5 Views: 302

REW Email Password Policy

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For the security of the servers and your mail we have some rules about email passwords. Please keep these in mind when requesting a new password.

Any password for an email account must meet ALL of these requirements.

1) must be 6 - 14 characters long

2) must contain at least 1 lower case letter (a - z)

3) must contain at least 1 upper case letter (A - Z)

4) must contain at least 1 number (0-9)

5) must contain at least 1 symbol !@#$%^&* or bracket ()

Please keep these rules in mind when requesting a new email password.

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Posted: 3 months ago, Comments: 0, Average Rating: 5 Views: 298

Spam Prevention

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The eternal question, How do I get less spam?

Well let’s talk about how spammers get your email address.

  • Simple email names on well SEO’d domains. For example having info@myhighrankingdomain.com will get you a ton of spam. Bots user dictionary lists and will just sent spam to every name in the dictionary list at a domain. Having a well SEO’d domain will just get you found faster by bots. So try to avoid using simple words like info or webmaster and first names like joe or mike or bob. A good idea would be to use your first initial and your last name. This is much less likely to be in spammers dictionaries.
  • Don’t have your email as plaintext on your website. An email in plain text on a website is far too easy for a bot to find and add to a…
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    Posted: 4 months ago, Comments: 1, Average Rating: 5 Views: 330

    Server Upgrade - Web 1

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    Greetings to all REW clients

    In an effort to improve performance of Web1 - We have been looking at all our options and we have decided that upgrading the processors on this server will give you the most bang with the least downtime.

    We will be replacing the single single-core AMD Opteron 250 with two dual-core Opteron 270 chips. This is currently planned for 3:00 AM Central time on Friday April 11, 2008. The server is expected to be down for 30 minutes or less. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

    We look forward to a much faster server for you and your visitors. If you are unsure of what server you are on please post in the forum with your domain name and someone will check for you.

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    Posted: 4 months ago, Comments: 1, Average Rating: Views: 316
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