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Opera Mail
is an E-mail client (program) that is built-in to the Opera web browser.
The following step-by-step instructions were written for
Opera Mail version 9.20. The
steps for other versions of Opera Mail
might be different.
TO CONFIGURE OPERA MAIL...
If you have not used or configured Opera Mail prior to now, please go to the Opera
Mail web page located here:
http://www.opera.com/support/tutorials/mail/
...and click on their link: “Setting up an account and importing messages” to get
Opera Mail to work with your Internet Service Provider (ISP).
For assistance with the many features of the Opera Mail program, Using Opera Mail is
a web-based tutorial at the Opera web site. This takes you step-by-step through
such topics as the Mail Panel, the Message Window, offline access, and much more.
The rest of this page is how to get Opera Mail working with an E-mail account that
is a part of your web site hosted on my web hosting service.
The following steps assume that you have already got Opera Mail
working (sending and receiving mail) with your ISP’s E-mail accounts.
Wherever you see “
MyDomain
” in the following steps, you should type whatever your domain name is. A domain name does include the .com or the .net or the .org
part, but it does not include the http:// or the www. parts. For example, the
domain name of this web site is bestbydesign.com
- On the Opera Menu bar, click on “Tools” then on “Mail and chat accounts...”
then you should see a popup window titled: “Manage Accounts”.
If you have not previously set up an account to work with your ISP, then you
will see a popup window titled: “Account needed”, and asking you if you
would like to create an account before proceeding. Click on “Yes”, then set up
Opera to work with your ISP. When you are done, come back to this page to
set up Opera Mail to work with an E-mail account that is a part of your web
site hosted on my web hosting service.
- In the popup window titled: “Manage Accounts”, click on the “Add...” button.
- In the “New account wizard” window, click once on “Regular e-mail (POP)” to
select it, then click on the ”Next >” button.
- In the “Real name” space, either enter your name or just keep the name that
might already be in the box. This is the name that your mail recipient will see
as a part of the “From” address when they open the mail.
- In the “E-mail address” space, enter your full E-mail address in the form of:
YourName@YourDomain. For example: Chep@MyCat.com This is the E-mail
address that your mail recipient will see as the “From” address when they open
the E-mail.
- In the “Organization” space, enter the name of your business or organization, if
any, or just leave it blank.
- Click on the “Next >” button.
- In the “Login name” space, enter your full and complete E-mail address in the
form of YourName@YourDomain For example: Chep@MyCat.com
- In the “Password” box, enter the password for this specific E-mail account. This
password might be the password I sent to you if this is an E-mail account I
created for you, or the password might be the password you used if this is an E
-mail account you created by using your vDeck Control Panel.
- Click on the “Next >” button.
- In the “Incoming server” space, there might already be the Incoming server of
your ISP from when you previously set up an account to work with your ISP.
Delete whatever might be in the box and enter mail.yourdomain For example:
mail.mycat.com
- Click on “Use secure connection (TLS)” so there is NOT a check in the adjacent
box.
- I recommend that you click on “Leave messages on server” so there is NOT a
check in the adjacent box.
- In the “outgoing server” box, there might already be the outgoing mail server of
your ISP from when you previously set up an account to work with your ISP;
which is what should be in the box. Your outgoing mail (the E-mail that you
send) goes through your ISP’s outgoing mail server.
If you ever change ISPs (for
example, taking a notebook computer on a business trip to another city or
state), you will probably have to change this setting.
Some examples of outgoing mail servers are (these might not be current or
correct):
- mail.cableone.net
- mail.bellsouth.net
- smtpauth.earthlink.net
- mail.megagate.com
- smtpauth.peoplepc.com
- mail.xfoneusa.net
- Click on the “Finish” button. You might (or might not) be back at the “Manage
Accounts” window which should list your previously set up accounts, and the
new account you just created.
Congratulations! You have configured the basic settings for your E-mail account. Now
to “fine tune” the account’s settings.
If the “Manage accounts” window is not displayed, then on the Menu bar, click on
“Tools” then click on “Mail and chat accounts...”
- In the “Manage accounts” window, click once on the account you just created to
select it, then click on the “Edit...” button.
- In the “Account properties” window, click on the “General” tab.
- In the “Account name” box, you can give this account any name that you so
desire to help you remember what this account is, or is to be used for. For
example: Sales, or Customer Support, or Tom’s account, or Search engines, etc.
- In the “Account category” box, you can select an appropriate category from the
dropdown list, or type-in a new category, or leave the box empty.
- In the “Full name” box, you can either keep the name that is in the box, or
change it to whatever you prefer. This is the name that your recipients will see
in the mail’s From: line.
- In the “Mail address” box, you can either keep the E-mail address that is in the
box, or change it to whatever address you prefer, usually (but does not have to
be) the same address that was used to send the E-mail. This is the E-mail
address that your recipients will see in the mail’s From: line.
- In the “Organization” box, you can either keep the name that is in the box, or
change it to whatever you refer.
- In the “Reply-to” box, enter an E-mail address of your choice; usually (but not
necessarily) the same as the address that sent the E-mail. The Reply-to address
is where the E-mail will go, when the recipient clicks on the “Reply” button in
their E-mail program.
- (Optional) In the “Automatically Cc” box, enter an E-mail address to which you
always want to send a courtesy copy of every E-mail sent from this particular E
-mail account.
- (Optional) In the “Automatically Bcc” box, enter an E-mail address to which you
always want to send a blind courtesy copy of every E-mail sent from this
particular E-mail account.
- Click on the “Servers” tab. There are two sections under the “Server” tab.
In the “Incoming POP server” section...
- In the “Server” box should be mail.yourdomain For example: mail.mycat
.com
- In the “Port number” box should be 110 (one hundred ten)
- In the “Secure connection (TLS)” box, there should NOT be a check.
- In the “Authentication” box should be “Auto”.
- In the “Username” box should be the full E-mail account address. For
example: Chep@MyCat.com
- In the “Password” box should be some astericks: ***** If you were not sure
whether you entered the password correctly when you were creating this
E-mail account, now is your opportunity to enter the password again.
In the “Outgoing SMTP server” section...
- In the “Server” box should be the name of your ISP’s outgoing mail server.
If you ever switch to a different ISP, then you will have to change the
name in this box as specified by your new ISP.
- In the “Port number” box should be as specified by your ISP; usually (but
not always) 25. AOL users, this number will be different; please read this.
- In the “Authentication” box should usually be “None”, but your ISP might
require Authentication using one of the options in the drop-down box.
- In the Username and Password boxes, these are usually blank (empty) if
Authentication is None. But if your ISP requires some form of
authentication, then you must enter your Username and Password that are
on file with your ISP. This is not the same as the username or password
that you use for your E-mail account on my mail server!
- Click on the “Incoming” tab.
- I recommend that you click on “Leave messages on server” so there is NOT a
check in the adjacent box.
- For the rest of the settings on the “Incoming” tab, it is entirely your choice and
preference to check them or not. Click on the “Help” button for more
information.
- Click on the “Outgoing” tab.
- In the “Default encoding” box, the default of iso-8859-15 is usually sufficient. If
you know about the various character encodings, or if you have some specific
reason to do so, then you can change to some other setting.
- For the rest of the settings on the “Outgoing” tab, it is entirely your choice and
preference to check them or not. Click on the “Help” button for more
information.
- Click on the “OK” button to save all your settings and return to the “Manage
accounts” window.
Congratulations! You have completed fine-tuning the settings of your E-mail account.
And it took only 33 numbered steps.
Repeat these steps for every E-mail account that you want to create/configure.
If you use America Online (AOL) as your Internet Service Provider (ISP), then be sure
to read this, too.
revised: April 15, 2007
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