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How to Access Your Hobbs/Herder Email Account
with Outlook Express
January 18, 2006
Overview: This document will show you an alternate way of accessing your Hobbs/Herder email
by downloading it directly to your desktop-based email program. The instructions provided here
are for Microsoft Outlook Express, but the general instructions can be applied to most email
applications.
Background: In general, when you sign up for hosting and email services with Hobbs/Herder, we
will set up an “email forwarder” that will send your email to an account you already use. In some
situations, it would be advantageous to access this email directly through a desktop application
like Microsoft Outlook and avoid forwarding altogether.
Reasons for this include:
- bypassing problems with spam filters wrongly rejecting this forward mail as spam.
Hotmail, Comcast, and AOL are notorious for filtering this type of mail.
- having a centralized place for you to receive all mail
- making it easier to send out email with your primary “branded” email: i.e.
joe@joesmith.com vs. Jsmith2932@aol.com
To setup H/H Mail through Outlook Express:
1. First you will need to launch Outlook Express
2. From the main menu, select Tools > Accounts
3. First, we will want you to obtain “SMTP” setting from your current email
account setup. Hobbs/Herder does not currently support sending emails
(SMTP) with our server.

From the list, select your primary email account and click Properties.
4. Click on the Servers Tab and write down the server listed under the
Outgoing Mail (SMTP) box.
Note: If you do not have an email account already setup, you may be able to use the
SMTP server from the company that is providing your Internet connectivity. Please refer
to your Internet Service Provider to obtain these settings.
5. (Optional) If the “My server requires authentication” box is checked,
please click on the Settings button. Copy down the settings for Account
Name, Password, and note whether “Log on using Secure Password
Authentication” is checked or not.
6. Click Cancel to return to a list of Internet Accounts like the graphic above

7. Click on Add > Mail...
8. Type your full name when prompted, click Next
9. Type your email address, click Next
10. On the E-mail Server Names, enter your information as follows:
My incoming mail server is a:
POP3 server
Incoming mail (POP3, IMAP, or HTTP) server
mail.hobbsherder.com
Outgoing mail (SMTP) server
use the information you wrote down earlier from Step 4.
Click Next

11. On Internet Mail Log-on, enter the following
Account: Type your full email address: i.e. joe@joesmith.com
Password: Type the password that Hobbs/Herder provided.
Make sure Remember Password is selected, click next.

12. Click Finished
13. If you found that in Step 5, “your server required authentication” please continue.
Otherwise, you can skip the following step and jump to Step 15.
14. Select the mail account you just created and click “Properties”.
15. In the Properties Window, select the Servers tab.
16. At the bottom of the window, select “My Server requires authentication” and enter the
information you copied down from Step 5.
17. Click Apply and close out of the the account management section of Outlook.
18. Okay, you’ve finished with Outlook. There is one more step you must accomplish to finish
this process. Next you must turning off “forwarding” on your account via Hobbs/Herder’s
web-based mail program.
19. Launch a web browser and go to this URL: http://mail.hobbsherder.com

20. Login using this information:
User ID: Type your full email address: i.e. joe@joesmith.com
Password: Type the password that Hobbs/Herder provided.
Click Log In
21. You will receive a greeting screen, click Continue...
22. From the drop-down menu on the near-right, select Forwarding.
23. If there is an entry in the forwarding box, remove it and click Save. This box needs to be
empty to disable forwarding.

24. Close your browser. You are all set up! Please send yourself a sample email to test your
set up. If you need help, contact us at: webservice@hobbsherder.com