Candasurfs Email Account Set Up

To set up your canadasurf.ca outlook account, follow this link: http://canadasurfs.ca/creating-a-new-account

To set up your canadasurfs.net (Gmail) outlook account, follow these instructions:

Before getting started, please make sure you know your canadasurfs.net email address and your canadasurfs.net password.

Start Outlook: from the main Outlook window, go to Tools -> Email Accounts.

On the Outlook popup window, select to "Add a new e-mail account" and click on Next.

On the server type step, select POP3 for the Outlook email account type, then click  Next. There is no need to select the IMAP type, because the Gmail web based account will keep a copy of all emails, just like an IMAP account would do.

On the next screen, you will  specify your Outlook Gmail settings, such as your canadasurfs.net username and password, Gmail server addresses, Gmail server ports and Outlook canadasurfs.net display name.

On the User Information section, enter your Name (it can be anything - this is will be the name/text that people see when you send them an email via your Outlook canadasurfs.net account) and your canadasurfs.net email address.

On the Server Information section, enter the Google Gmail servers:
Incoming mail server: pop.gmail.com
Outgoing mail server: smtp.gmail.com.

As an alternative, you may setup any other outgoing mail server that you have access to, such as your ISP's SMTP server or your own hosted outgoing server. However, if you setup a 3rd party outgoing mail server, you will not have access to send emails via your web based Gmail account panel.

On the Logon Information section, enter your canadasurfs.net User Name (this is your canadasurfs.net email address) and your canadasurfs.net  password. Tick the box "Remember password" in order to make Outlook store the canadasurfs.net password so it will not ask you for it every time Outlook  sends/receives emails through the account.

Click on the "More Settings" button and go to the "Advanced" window tab.

On Incoming server (POP3) field, enter 995 and mark the box "This server requires an encrypted connection  (SSL)".

On Outgoing server (SMTP) field, enter 465 and mark the box "This server requires an encrypted connection (SSL)".

You can change the server timeout period: this defines the time interval that Outlook will wait to establish a Gmail connection before triggering a connection error. The slower your Internet connection is, the greater period you should put. The "Delivery" options are not important for an Outlook Gmail account: no matter what you change here, Gmail will always keep a copy of the email on the Gmail server.

When you are done setting up your Outlook canadasurfs.net Gmail advanced settings, click on OK to return to the Outlook canadasurfs.net  Gmail account window.

To verify your Outlook canadasurfs.net setup, click on the "Test Account Settings" button:  Outlook will attempt to login to your canadasurfs.net account and to send & receive an Outlook test email. If the test succeeds, you will notice the test email in your Outlook Inbox folder. If the test fails, Outlook will prompt you with the error messages - most likely you didn't setup the correct server settings or the canadasurfs.net password is wrong.

Resources

- Gmail POP Access Help Center;
- Gmail auto-configuration tool for Microsoft Outlook 2002 or Outlook Express;
- Microsoft article on using Outlook 2002 or 2003 with a Google Gmail account.