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How do I set up email accounts in Outlook Express?

29 January, 2008 16:01:00 NewsreadeR

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If you prefer to use Outlook Express follow the instructions below to set up your email programme to send and receive mails from your Sky account.

Before you start setting up an email account, you will need to enable POP in your MySky Account

How to enable POP on your Sky Email Account

Configure your email program:

1. Open Outlook Express.
2. Click the Tools menu, and select Email Accounts....
3. Click Add and then click Mail...
4. Enter your name in the Display name: field and click Next.
5. Enter your full Sky Email address (username@sky.com) in the Email address: field and click Next.
6. Enter the following information in the Incoming mail (POP3, IMAP or HTTP) server: field:

POP3 - pop.tools.sky.com
IMAP - imap.tools.sky.com

7. Enter 'smtp.tools.sky.com' in the Outgoing mail (SMTP) server: field.
8. Click Next.
9. Enter your Sky Email username (including '@sky.com') in the Account name: field.
10. Enter your Sky Email password in the Password: field and click Next.
11. Click Finish.
12. Highlight pop.tools.sky.com or imap.tools.sky.com under Account and click Properties.
13. Click the Advanced tab.
14. Under Outgoing Mail (SMTP), tick the box next to This server requires a secure connection (SSL).
15. Enter '465' in the Outgoing mail (SMTP): field.
16. Under Incoming mail (POP3 / IMAP), tick the box next to This server requires a secure connection (SSL).

This port should change to either 995 for POP3 or 993 for IMAP.

17. Click the Servers tab and tick the box next to My server requires authentication.
18. Click OK.

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Comments (45 posted):

ivanwaterman on 13 February, 2008 17:01:05

I have done this and still nothing, can't receive or send emails via outlook express

sashaelliott on 13 February, 2008 21:41:40

what happens if you dont have a sky email account? My email provider is supanet.com but i use sky and my broadband provider. I used to have my out going server as smtpsky.com but it no longer works... any sugestions?

Zico on 15 February, 2008 18:54:43

ivanwaterman - You have to log onto the Sky.com website and go into your email first. Inside the Google/Sky mail page goto Mail Settings then Forwarding and POP. There is a setting here to say Enable POP mail. Once you have done that, the above settings should work with Outlook Express.

sashaelliott - Your incoming email settings should stay the same but your outgoing settings need to be updated to the new smtp.tools.sky.com outgoing settings (along with authentication etc.)

Bob on 09 May, 2009 23:56:37

I couldn't get this to work at first then realised my mistake, obvious as it was when at instruction line 9. i wasn't entering @sky.com doh!

Hope this helps

Dee on 14 May, 2009 12:21:05

Thank you Bob. I've been trying for the past hour to set up outlook and thanks to your tip I now have mine working too..thank you

Dave on 22 May, 2009 19:10:07

I can receive emails but I cannot send them. A message appears stating "the TCP/IP connection was unexpectedly terminated by the Server, Account pop.tools.sky.com. Error no. 0x800ccc0f
Can anyone help?

Kit on 08 June, 2009 14:35:58

Help please? We have sky for our broadband but it's a shared student house, nobody seems to have the account information. Just putting in the smtp.tools.sky.com doesn't let me send emails, that's all I need, my webmail is getting full! Please someone help? What do I add, what do I do?

Dave Ellis on 11 June, 2009 18:48:55

I use wi-fi from my landlady's router. She recently changed from Wanadoo to Sky and now I can't send e-mails from OE on my laptop but I am still receiving them.
Any remedies?

john mckay on 29 June, 2009 16:14:57

I have followed instructions time after time but unable to use outlook express .any ideas

PHYLLIS ROBINSON on 06 July, 2009 16:10:57

in my tools there is not an e.mail account section, so what else could it say ,this is driving me mad i am 63 years of age and really not able to cope with this i really wished i had never changed from ntl,

Bob Dennell on 27 July, 2009 11:36:58

I feel the same way as Phyllis about NTL - I have checked OE settings umpteen times, tried Zico's tips and it still doesn't work

Darren Chappell on 30 July, 2009 21:16:55

Outlook 2007 configured in literally 10 minutes...

Good tutorial - Thanks

jonny shepherd on 15 August, 2009 02:16:25

i've tried this so many times but whenever i click the send/rec button it asks me for username and password. after i put this in and click OK, it pops up again. this just repeats and repeats. any suggestions?

john harris on 17 September, 2009 21:03:56

Have tried installing Outlook Express as that was the system I had always used, before moving out of cable area, and having to install Sky
Have paid a professional to get OE to work and despite him going through process with Sky team, totally unable to get OE Nightmare. Why?

rosemary dixon on 19 October, 2009 21:39:43

ref trying to configure Outlook, i've tried this so many times but whenever i click the send/rec button it asks me for username and password. after i put this in and click OK, it pops up again. this just repeats and repeats. any suggestions?

julie on 03 November, 2009 13:17:39

Hi, what you need to do is go to my sky, then manage additional user, then set up a additional user, fill the form in as yourself giving yourself another username and password,
then enter the new username and password on your outlook setting and it should work,
then i set myself as the main user in my sky ,billing center, upgrade.
I then deleting the old one.
hope that helps :)

Derek Jones on 16 November, 2009 16:44:21

Just moved everthing over from BT to Sky and all went perfect, also e-mail to OE, not sure why that worked but it has.

Hilary Evans on 20 November, 2009 17:50:54

Hi, just read all the comments, I too am total fed up that I can't get out look express. I have done all the long list of things sky say, but it is no good. I will try what Julie suggests a new username and password, then I shall throw the towel in, Sky are hopeless at helping. Hilary

Derek Davidson on 26 November, 2009 09:51:28

Have spent hours trying to solve the problem with Outlook Express and getting no where. Sky technical Dept less than useless. Wish I had stayed with my old provider as this is causing me real problems.

roger french on 13 December, 2009 12:55:44

As previous comment SKY ARE ABSOLUTELY USELESS. Ive tried always to set up E,mail using OUTLOOK EXPRESS but SKY TECHS could not help either. Cant wait to part company from sky and back to Cable

R French on 13 December, 2009 15:47:10

My mate whose a computer buff has just spent the best part of 5 hours trying to sort out Outlook Express as my e,mail account and has failed. this is a conspiracy on SKY,s part to get you to use sky e,mail. the sooner I leave the better.

neil jackson on 18 December, 2009 09:22:21

just spent an hour sorting this out with outlook express.!! eventually noticed that in the sky account settings part that both pop3 and imap were enabled. disabled imap, saved. removed account from outlook and redid just in case and hey presto it worked !!!! sky mail now deliverd to my pc through outlook express. :)

Pauline Whitlaw on 07 January, 2010 13:08:05

I've just swapped from BT to Sky as well and the only way I can receive/send emails on Outlook Express is to forward all my emails from MySky to my other email address through our business website which is also forwarded to Outlook. I've been told this isn't totally reliable though as it's going through 2 portals but I'm still angry at wasting so much time on the phone with Sky that I thought I'd better cool off for a few days before trying again. The technical helpdesk are totally useless they even said it was a Microsoft problem but couldn't tell me why and I hate to imagine how much my bill is going to be as I was routed to M'soft in the USA and still got nowhere as they didn't know what I was talking about!

ANDREAWILSON on 11 January, 2010 22:21:26

TRIED TO SET UP PASSWORD FOR EMAIL CANT DO IT HELP

on 14 January, 2010 16:04:43

dear sir why has my account gone from 87 pounds to 103 pounds after all the trouble ive be through early on if you check your records faithfully w.salter

Daron Herbert on 20 January, 2010 18:28:28

I have tried the unlock method and setting up a new account but neither work - i am still being asked for username and password repeatedly. Help please!

Gerry Pearson on 29 January, 2010 10:46:29

Just connected to Sky and don't like the Email page at all the colour is too light and the click boxes are spread all over the place. Tried to set up with Outlook Express and failed have been to professional computer wizards and they can't set it up. Spent £45 so far and have tried asking sky but its like asking my 6month old grandson. It is disgraceful that a massive company like sky can't help or design a better Email page in the first place. I have been with Tiscala for years and never had a single problem. COME ON SKY READ SOME OF THESE COMMENTS OR YOU WILL START LOOSING CUSTOMERS BIG TIME.

Michael (SKY) on 07 February, 2010 22:46:44

I work for sky in the newcastle department and emails is one of, if not THE biggest issue for most customers and most advisors. If you call up and ask for your email address to be sync'd using the sync tool then it will work. steps you need to do: go to sky.com and log in with user and pass, if your in then you need to go to outlook and remove ALL email accounts, at this point ring sky and ask to sync your email address, once sync'd restart pc, after restart then you need to add a whole new email in outlook using same user and pass you used for sky.com before pc restart. once it is added using all correct settings as top of this page (including @sky.com part in username) then you will be able to access all emails fine. i'm the email wizard there at newcastle call centre for sky ;)

mark on 23 February, 2010 08:24:28

well iv bin trying so long to set up outlook, this site worked for me every things working fine {sending and reciving} mail thanks.

gillian huntley on 05 May, 2010 15:23:03

Michael....why are you the only person at Sky who seems to know how to fix my problem .....have made several calls to sky, some of which have been for over an hour....I passed on the exact instructions that you posted about the sync tool and they said that it doesnt exist! AAAARGHH! All I want is my email to come to my windows mail and my i phone....I am not asking for much! Please help

jay on 10 August, 2010 22:07:22

The below comment left by Bob on 09 May, 2009 23:56:37 worked for me ive spent ages trying to figure why it wouldnt work hope this works for others.

couldn't get this to work at first then realised my mistake, obvious as it was when at instruction line 9. i wasn't entering @sky.com doh!

Hope this helps

mark (sussex) on 16 August, 2010 20:23:50

Worked a treat after deleting my original account and setting it up from scratch using the above instructions.
Thanks

Azeem on 23 August, 2010 23:01:39

Hi - I sorted my OE problem by unchecking the 'Log On Using Secure Password Authentication' checkbox in the 'Servers' tab of the account's properties in Outlook Express

Lisa Roberts on 24 August, 2010 22:43:25

Thanks so much - set up straight away!

meli on 30 August, 2010 08:03:57

pls, i have an account in skybroadband.com.ph and i want to start sending message from outlook express 2007. ols tell me how i can do this ok

i will apprecaite yr urgent response

thanks

Willie Boyd on 23 September, 2010 21:50:21

Very good instructions - worked first time for me. Thanks

Webbo on 28 September, 2010 18:33:37

Hi, I had a problem with a new email address I added to my existing Sky profile. When I set it up in Outlook Express it just kept asking for username and password. As I already had 2 Sky email addresses setup in OE I was very confused until I read the message above about from Micheal in Newcastle. I rang Sky and asked them to "sync" my email addresses which they did and then OE worked perfectly as soon as they had done it. I didn't have to delete any email accounts from OE, it was one simple phone call to Sky.

Chris on 23 October, 2010 18:55:17

Thankyou,thankyou,thankyou....I have been struggling with this for 3 days.....did it exactly as you said and hey presto it worked.

Graham Galer on 03 March, 2012 12:52:43

I use Windows Mail, and want to continue to use my Demon address. How do i do this?

Also - I've asked this question before during the past week, but can never find my way back to see if anyone has answered it.

Alan on 08 March, 2012 16:45:19

After muckin about with sky email I put a search in for "sky email settings for outlook express" because the outlook format is what I am familiar with, and after trying unsuccsesfully to do it myself I waas directed to this forum . Following the instructions given lo and behold before I had finished the emails sent to sky downloaded to my outlook express account , A BIG THUMBS UP and Thank you.........

Debra Derry on 26 April, 2012 18:27:03

i have moved from bt to sky for broadband and phone but need the details to be able to receive my bt e-mail into outlook. I do not have a sky e-mail account and do not want to set one up. I jus want to continue to use my bt e-mail accounts with out the hassle of having to create a new one. Help!!!

Phil on 28 April, 2012 14:01:32

Many Thanks, folowing your set up guide I now have Outlook for my mail.

jo on 17 August, 2012 19:53:16

I have a Sky email account and have used all the settings above to configure this account in Outlook Express 2010. However, its my gmail account that appears instead. I have tried to remove the account & add the sky account, but the only account that ever works in the gmail account! Can anyone help?

Lynn on 02 September, 2012 20:45:28

I have a friend with a Sky.com account but everytime a friend tries to email me the emails do not get through, everyone elses to me is fine. Any ideas

Debra Derry on 15 October, 2012 19:58:14

I have a bt mail account which I can receive mail into outlook but I have tried so many different options to be able to sent but can't. We moved to sky when we moved house back in March. So outgoing should be sky but no luck.

PLEASE SOME ONE GET ME AN IDIOT GUIDE SO I CAN SEND MAIL USING SKY PLEASSSSSSSSSSSS.