New account with new Domain

[EmmaMC]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) I am trying to set up a new entourage email account using a new recently purchased domain. I am putting in (e-mail address removed) for incoming and out going mails but when i verify details it tells me both are not right. Do I have to have set up the hosting for the website before being able to set up the email account or do I need to set up the email address at somewhere like GMail first and then will I be able to do it???? Any help appreciated.

 

[Diane Ross]

I am trying to set up a new entourage email account using a new recently
purchased domain. I am putting in (e-mail address removed) for incoming and out
going mails but when i verify details it tells me both are not right. Do I
have to have set up the hosting for the website before being able to set up
the email account or do I need to set up the email address at somewhere like
GMail first and then will I be able to do it???? Any help appreciated.

You do need a host for your new domain name. Usually the site where you
purchased will offer some suggestions.

--
Diane Ross, Microsoft Mac MVP
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[Barry_Wainwright_[MVP]]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

I am trying to set up a new entourage email account using a new
recently purchased domain. I am putting in (e-mail address removed) for
incoming and out going mails but when i verify details it tells me both
are not right. Do I have to have set up the hosting for the website
before being able to set up the email account or do I need to set up
the email address at somewhere like GMail first and then will I be able
to do it???? Any help appreciated.

You don't need to set up the web site before using the mail, but the
mail host does need to be set up correctly.

There are two common methods for this to be done with purchased domains
- the most common by far is that you set the mail to be forwarded to
another address at the web site where you purchased the domain. this is
the 'quick & easy' method, most commonly used by cheap domain
resellers. If you don't have another suitable mail account, you can
always forward to a new, free gmail account.

If you have control of your own mail server (or if your domain host
provides one), you can set the MX records for the domain DNS to point
to the mail server. then, you need to set up the 'sending mail server'
and 'receiving mail server' addresses in the Entourage account settings
with those mail server addresses.

Not many of the cheap domain resellers will give specific Entourage
instructions, bu if you can find the address of the mail servers the
set up is fairly straight forward. They usually look like
'mail.servername.com' for the receiving mail server and
'smtp.servername.com' for the sending mail server, but there are many
other variants.

--
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