Troubleshoot Your Mail Account

If you have problems getting your email, there are several things you can do. The first, of course, is to check your account information:

The Description is anything that will tell you which account this is.The Email Address and Full Name describe your mail to those you send it to so they know who it's coming from.

  • The Incoming Mail Server is information that you have to get from whoever hosts that particular email account. I have six or seven email accounts, not one of which is with my ISP. So I need to get the Incoming Mail Server of each of the hosts where I have the email coming from.

  • Keep in mind that some

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