Switching Your Email To OnALot.com and Keeping Your Contact List

When you switched to OnALot.com, you dropped your old ISP's email name, but you want to keep your contact list

This is actually pretty easy to do. Just follow these directions.

1. Open Outlook Express. Close any error messages that might show up
2. Click on File
3. Click on Identities and then Manage Identities.
4. If you see Main Identity, click on it to highlight it, then click on Properties.
5. Enter your name as you would like others to see it, then click on OK. Do not click the Require Password button.
6. Click Close
7. Click on Tools
8. Click on Accounts
9. Click on the Mail Tab
10. Click on Add and then on Mail
11. Enter your name as you would like others to see it. Click Next
    
    Note: for the rest of these instructions, only use lowercase letters. No capitals!
    
12. Enter your new Onalot email name as: yourname@onalot.com. Click Next.
13. The first line is POP3
14. The Incoming Mail Server is pop3.onalot.com
15. For the Outgoing Mail Server use smtp.onalot.com
    Note: For our Paden customers, use smtp.valornet.com instead
    

    If you host your own domain with us, use pop3.yourdomain.com and smtp.yourdomain.com

16. Click Next
17. Enter your email name. (Such as you@onalot.com or you@yourdomain.com).
18. Enter your password. Check the Remember Password button
19. Do NOT check the Log On Using Secure Password Authentication (SPA) box.
20. DO check the box that says "My server requires authentication."
21. Click Next
22. If it asks you to import at this time, say no
23. Click Finish
24. You are now back at the main Outlook Express page. At the top, click on Tools
25. Click on Accounts
26. Click the Advanced tab at the top.
27. Change the Outgoing Mail (SMTP) number to from 25 to 2501.
28. Click Apply
29. Click OK
30. Click Close
31. Repeat the above for all of your new Onalot accounts.

Note: Your old ISP's information is still in Outlook Express. When you quit them, you have to delete their information. To do this, follow these instructions:

1. Open Outlook Express
2. Close any error messages
3. Click on Tools
4. Click on Accounts
5. Click on the Mail Tab
6. You will see your old ISP's information on one line, and OnALot.com's information on another line
7. Click on the old ISP line to highlight it, then click on Remove at the right.
8. Click Close
   

Helpful Settings

Now that Outlook Express is set up, here are some settings that will make it perform better for you.

1. Click on Tools
2. Click on Options
3. At the top, click on General
4. Put a check in the “When starting, go directly to my ‘Inbox’ folder”
5. At the top, click on Maintenance
6. Put a check in the “Empty message in the ‘Deleted Items’ folder on exit”
7. At the top, click on Connection
8. Make sure the “Hang up after sending and receiving” box is NOT checked.
9. Click Apply
10. Click OK
    

Testing Your New Email Accounts

The fastest way to check your email account(s) is to send yourself a test message.

1. Click on Create Mail
2. Enter your email address in the To field
3. Enter Test as the Subject
4. Enter anything you like in the body of the message
5. Click Send
6. After it’s sent, wait 30 seconds and then click on the Send / Receive button.
7. The email you just sent should come back to you.

You’re done. If you have any problems, just give us a call!