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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!