Setting-Up Your New BooNet Account

Setting Up Netscape Mail and News

1. If you have not already done so, launch Netscape.
2. From the top of the screen, select Edit, and then select Preferences from the bottom of the list that appears.
3. The Preferences screen should appear, from the left-hand pane of the screen double click on Mail & Groups.
4. Next click Identity from the left-hand pane.
5. A list of options should appear on the right-hand pane. In the option box marked Your Name enter your name, as you would like it to appear in your email, family, and colleagues. You can enter just about anything in this field.
6. In the next field enter your email address. You must enter the username you selected plus @boo.net. Your email address should be all one word and all lower case. Here are some examples, info@boo.net, service1@boo.net, jsmith@boo.net.
7. You can ignore the rest of the fields on this screen. Your Reply To Address is the same as your email.
8. Next click Mail Server from the left-hand pane.
9. In the first option box that appears in the right-hand pane, Mail Server user name, enter just your username in all lower case.
10. In the field labeled Outgoing mail (SMTP) server, type boo.net in all lower case.
11. In the field labeled Incoming mail server, type boo.net in all lower case.
12. Make sure the option labeled POP3 (messages and folders are kept locally, on the hard disk) is selected.
13. Make sure the option labeled Leave messages on server after retrieval is NOT selected.
14. Next click Groups server from the left-hand pane.
15. In the first option box labeled Discussion groups (News) server type pnews.boo.net Leave the rest of the options in their default settings.
16. Click OK
17. You are now ready to send and receive mail. The Netscape mail launcher is usually located in the bottom right hand corner of your Netscape Navigator screen.