Lets take a look at the main screen of the program:

In order to create a new e-mail account, you will need to provide some essential information to access the "server" and the particular "mailbox" that you will use.

1. Pick your "user name" that you plan to use for your account, or the assigned user name by the System Administrator, or your Internet Service Provider (ISP).

2. Pick your "password" that you plan to use for your account, or the assigned password by the System Administrator, or your Internet Service Provider (ISP).

3. You will need to know the "name of the server" that your account resides on.
It may be a string of digits separated by periods, or in a form of names
separated by periods.

Once you have all the necessary information ready, you can pick "Accounts..." from the "Tools" menu.

This will bring up the "Internet Accounts" window. In order to create your account, you have to click on the "Add" button, and choose "Mail..." from the list that will appear.

At this point, you will be presented with "Internet Connection Wizard" which will enable you with help in order to complete the full process.

Begin by choosing the way you will want your name displayed when someone is receiving an e-mail you have sent.

Clicking on the "Next" button, and provide your e-mail address. This is the address that will be used in replying back to you. If you have another e-mail address, and you want to use it instead, you can enter it here.

Clicking on the "Next" button, enter the name of the server that you will be using to send and receive e-mail.  It is usually the same name for both functions, but there are two separate fields, in case that some account may be configured in a different way.

In the next window you will need to provide information that will be sent to the server in order to authenticate your logon. It consists of your "user name" ("POP account name") and your "password".

Note: in the password field, you are not going to see what you type except for stars indicating how many characters you have used.

Now you can give your account a meaningful name (may be helpful if you need to handle a few different accounts).

In most cases, you will want to decide when you want to connect to the Internet (the third option: "I will establish my Internet connection manually").  If you want your computer to dial-up to the Internet automatically when you want to check or send e-mail, you may want to choose the first option, "Connect using my phone line."

At this point, you are about done with setting up your account.  Just click on the "Finish" button...

Now, you should see your new account listed in the Internet Accounts window, under the Mail tab. Click on the "Close" button to leave this window

When you click on the "Send and receive" button on the toolbar, following status box will show you progress of the current operation:

If you do not receive any error messages at this point, you are set and ready to use your e-mail account.

KNOWN PROBLEMS
If you are getting an error message such as "CAN NOT CONNECT TO THE SERVER" when attempting to send and receive mail, you can try to replace the SMTP OUTGOING MAIL SERVER UNDER:

TOOLS
ACCOUNTS
MAIL
YOUR MAILCONFIGURATION
SERVER
SMTP OUTGOING MAIL SERVER 

(CHANGE WITH YOUR INTERNET ACCESS PROVIDER OUTGOING MAIL SERVER ACCOUNT you can find it under the same section if you select your internet access provider e-mail account configuration rather than your domain name mail configuration, assuming that you had that account set up in the first place.)

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