If you recently bought a new computer running Windows 7, you may have noticed
that there is not a email program installed on the system by default. This was a
choice by Microsoft to not ship one due to the rise in popularity of web-based
email clients.
Did you know that Airstream provides you a webmail feature? You can access it
via http://webmail.airstreamcomm.net
by using your full email address as your login and your normal password from
your Internet Service Provider (ISP).
If you'd rather access your email locally on your computer, maintain local
backups or have access to other features that only a locally installed email
program can provide, we recommend using Windows Live Mail from Microsoft.
You can download this
program here. Once the download is finished, double-click the install file
and let the program install. This program comes packaged with other programs,
such as a movie maker, instant messenger, etc. It is not necessary to also
install these other programs to use the mail. So feel free to uncheck the ones
you dont want during the installation process.
Once you have installed the program and run it for the first time it will ask
you to setup your email account. If it doesnt you can do the following:
- Click on the blue menu tab at the top of the screen (located to the left
of the "Home" tab.
- Click on "Options"
- Then on the right side click on "Email Accounts"
- Click the "Add" button to start making the account and continue below.
If the program has already started to ask you to setup your account, or you
followed the instructions above to get to the new email account setup, continue
below:
- The first screen will ask for your "Email address". This is your email
address you received from your ISP when you signed up for the service.
- Then next field will ask for you "Password". This was also provided by
your ISP when you signed up and is unique to you. Make sure you fill it out
exactly as written, upper-case letters count here.
- Place a check-mark in "Remember this password"
- Now fill out your "Display Name". This will be the name that shows up
when you send mail to someone. You can use your first name, or your full
name or the name of your business here.
- Place a check-mark in "Make this my default email account"
- Place a check-mark in "Manually configure server settings"
- Click the "Next" button at the bottom.
- On the next screen, select "IMAP" from the "Server Type" drop down
selection box.
- For the "Server address" enter: mail.airstreamcomm.net
- The "Port" number should be filled in as 143, if not, do that now.
- Make sure "Requires a secure connection (SSL)" is unchecked.
- Make sure the "Authenticate using" selection says "Clear text"
- The "Logon user name" box should already be filled out with your
username. Your username or logon name is simply the beginning of your email
address before the @ sign.
- On the right-hand side, "Outgoing Server Address" should be:
mail.airstreamcomm.net
- The "Port" number for this box should be 587. If not, correct that now
and make sure neither option below this is checked.
- Click the "Next" button at the bottom of this screen and it should tell
you the account has now been added. Click the "Finish" button to complete
this process.
If you have any issues with downloading this program or setting it up, feel
free to contact Technical Support for further
assistance. You can reach us 24 hours a day by
clicking here.
