The following instructions can be used to connect your ecumenism.net or oecumenisme.ca email accounts to your Microsoft Outlook Express. You will require a login ID and password that are not specified in these instructions. Contact the for these details. The outgoing mail servers are also not specified here. Outgoing mail service is provided by your local dial-up service provider.

Step 1

1. Open Outlook Express and click on the Tools menu and select Accounts.

Step 2

2. Select the Mail tab.

Note: if you already have a Microsoft Outlook or Microsoft Exchange email account configured, you can select "Import" to load the existing account configurations.
Step 3

3. Click on the Add and select Mail.
Step 4

4. The setup wizard should now appear. In the field labeled Display Name please enter your Full Name as you would like it to appear on emails sent from this account. Remember: you can set up multiple accounts, each one with different display names.

Click Next.
Step 5

5. In the next window, you should see an area for your email address.

a) Select "I already have an e-mail address that I'd like to use".

b) In Email Address, enter the email address assigned to you by the webeditor (e.g. username@oecumenisme.ca).

Click Next.
Step 6

6. a) Incoming mail: mail.oecumenisme.ca or mail.ecumenism.net

6. b) Outgoing mail: Check with your ISP for the Outgoing mail (SMTP) server. This is the SMTP server of your dial-up or high speed connection. It may be in the format smtp.ispdomain.com or pop.ispdomain.com.

CCE staff: check with Ann Herbert for appropriate SMTP server.

Click Next.
Step 7

7. a) Account Name: The account name is your email address with the @ exchanged for #.
       e.g. username#oecumenisme.ca

7. b) Password: This is the password for the mailbox. It was assigned to you by the webeditor. If you wish to change it, please email .

Click Next.
Step 8

8. Click Finish.
Step 9

9. Click Close.
Note #1: if you should subsequently want to change or correct any of the details that you have entered for this account, begin with steps 1 and 2, which will open the above dialogue box. Then select "Properties" and modify the account as necessary.

Note #2: if you have multiple email accounts, ensure that you select one as your default. To do this, highlight it, and then press "Set as default". The default email account will be used when you compose an email. Setting a default does not mean that you cannot send from the other accounts. You can send any email from any account.