Setting up your pop3 email

ZimbabweOnLine POP3 email allows you to work offline to reply and write as many emails as you want without getting charged any internet calls.Your in comming email will be downloaded from our mail servers as soon as you make an internet connection .
Your out going mail will also be sent upon connection.

Any mail client such as MS Outlook Express, Eudora, Pegasus Mail and ClickMail can be used to use our email service.Almost all these clients are avaliable free of charge over the internet. Your email client must be configured (set) properly in order to send and receieve email. Configuration differs from one email client to another, but they all require the same basic settings. If you have problems configuring your email client please contact our webmaster.Configuration details for Outlook Express are found below.

Using mail clients will give you access to a much more robust spellchecker than the ones generally found in web-based email services. Filtering and blocking unwanted emails is much more advanced.

Some mail clients to be used with ZimbabweOnLine can even read your email for you .They allow you to manage multiple emails addresses.

Simple Setting for ZimbabweOnLine

User/Account Name :

Password : use your password

Email Address :your email address e.g helper@zimbabweonline.info

Incoming Server (POP3) : mail.compila2.net

Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP) : mail.compila2.net

You can also read your POP3 online

When asked for your email address : use your user name instead (which starts with zimb )before @zimbabweonline.net. Then enter your normal password.Read your Pop3 online now


Configuring Outlook Expess

Firstly open Outlook Express and then

Go to 'Tools

Select 'Accounts

Select 'Mail'

Select Add - Mail.

This will then start an Internet Connection Wizard which will walk your through the configuration. The screens will be as follows or similar.

First Screen

- Display Name: When you send an e-mail to someone, what you put here shows in their e-mail program as the name of the person who has sent them that e-mail..eg(Tapiwa Shas)

Second Screen

- E-mail Address: This is the address you have created - enter your ZimbabweOnLine email address such as :you@zimbabweonline.info This shows the recipient of your e-mails the e-mail address of you, the sender.

Third Screen

- Incoming Mail Server (POP3): this should be entered as 'mail.compila2.net'.

- Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): also should be entered as'mail.compila2.net'.

Fourth Screen

- Account Name / User Name: This should start with 'zimb'given to you upon sign up.

- Password: The password you specified when you created the POP3 account.

Fifth Screen

- Finish. Click OK and your account is created. Once created, the account it will then appear in the 'Internet Accounts - Mail tab within Outlook Express.