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Title: Seting up IDNet email accounts
Post by: john7 on Sep 29, 2020, 18:42:45
You must excuse my spelling etc as I am dyslexic. We are moving to IDNet next week and now have access to setting up e-mails. but I am not too sure what to do, I have setup, though I am unclear how an e-mail account for my log on address. Should I have done that or should that be deleted?
I had though you could set up a basic part of the address than add users in from of that. So that XXXXXX@innet  could be johnXXXXX@idnet. But I don't see how you can do that. Do I have to set it up as john@idnet (unlikely I know) or?
Title: Re: Seting up IDNet email accounts
Post by: Simon on Sep 29, 2020, 19:59:13
Basically, each email account is xxxxxx@idnet.com and you set up each one individually.  You can either then use https://webmail.idnet.com/ to access your emails, or an email client such as Outlook or Thunderbird
Title: Re: Seting up IDNet email accounts
Post by: john7 on Sep 29, 2020, 22:20:16
Thanks, is there anyway of importing e-mail contaxts into the webmail?
Title: Re: Seting up IDNet email accounts
Post by: zappaDPJ on Sep 29, 2020, 22:36:42
Click the 'Contacts' tab on the right and then 'Import' on the left. The two supported formats are CSV and vCard.
Title: Re: Seting up IDNet email accounts
Post by: john7 on Sep 30, 2020, 11:14:54
Thanks done that now but further problem. I am using W10 with Outlook 2010. As far as I can find out TLS 1.2 is enabled but I can get outlook to send a test e-mail but its failing to get "Log onto incoming mail server (POP3): Outlook cannot connect to your incoming (POP3) e-mail server. If you continue to receive this message, contact your server administrator or Internet service provider (ISP)."

I have tried just about every port, Authentication and enabled and disabled any and everything in the Outlook new account but no good. I thought it would be sending via existing ISP that would be the problem not  loging on to Incoming Mail.
Title: Re: Seting up IDNet email accounts
Post by: Simon on Sep 30, 2020, 11:40:44
Does this help?

https://www.idnet.com/support/guides/email/settings.php

Or this?

https://www.idnet.com//support/guides/email/outlook.php
Title: Re: Seting up IDNet email accounts
Post by: john7 on Sep 30, 2020, 11:50:39
Retried am able to send test but still "Log onto incoming mail server (POP3): Outlook cannot connect to your incoming (POP3) e-mail server. If you continue to receive this message, contact your server administrator or Internet service provider (ISP)."

The Outlook one is for a latter verion than 2010 and misses out the "More Settings" you have to use in 2010 but I did just try the basic inputs but it needed the ports and other settings to get the test send to work.
Title: Re: Seting up IDNet email accounts
Post by: Ray on Sep 30, 2020, 11:56:08
John what are you using as  your incoming email server? my Idnet email account is using securemail.idnet.com for incoming mail.
Title: Re: Seting up IDNet email accounts
Post by: john7 on Sep 30, 2020, 12:13:31
I have no idea whats been going wrong, support said the wrong password was recoreded on there server. I used the webmail password from lastpass (webmail has been working) and its now working in Outlook. What totally confuses me is I pasted this password onto my word doc that had all the setup information and it was the same password as I had there. As I copied and pasted the password from the dashhboard into the webmail to set it up as well as into Outlook I nam lost as to whets been going one but whatever its now working in Outlook!

Many thanks for your help.
Title: Re: Seting up IDNet email accounts
Post by: Simon on Sep 30, 2020, 13:49:27
Copying and pasting passwords sometimes produces odd spaces where there are not supposed to be spaces.  Glad you've got it sorted now though.   :thumb: