It's quite easy to reconfigure ChoiceMail to connect to BellSouth. Please
follow the instructions below
- BellSouth says On the new platform, you will have to add your domain name
to your current user name (username@domain.com) in order to access your
e-mail
- In ChoiceMail, click on Options | Email Accounts Settings...
-
Select your BellSouth email address from the list on the left
- In the second field on the right, called POP3 source username, change
the entry so that it now includes the domain name
- Click OK
-
BellSouth indicates you need to update your SMTP server settings to include
authentication
For this, you need to make a change both to ChoiceMail AND to your
email client
- In ChoiceMail, click on Options | Configuration...
- In the section called "Outgoing mail server", check the box called
"This server requires authentication"
- Click on the Authentication Settings button - a new dialog will pop
up
- Make sure that the "Use same username and password as incoming server"
checkbox is not checked
- In the Account name and Password fields, provide your complete username
(which now includes the domain name) and your BellSouth Password
- Make sure that the "Log on using Secure Password Authentication" checkbox
is not checked
- Click OK to close the Authentication Settings dialog
- Click OK to close the ChoiceMail Configuration window
- Open your email application and go to the email account settings dialog
(Unfortunately the actual process depends on the particular email program
you are using - you may need to refer to your email program's documentation
for this step
- Select the account that is configured to connect to ChoiceMail - if
you have multiple accounts configured to connect to ChoiceMail you will
need to repeat the steps below for each account.
- (Note - do NOT change the incoming POP3 settings in any of these accounts
- those settings are already configured to communicate with ChoiceMail)
- There should be a section somewhere related to configuring your outgoing
server, sometimes called your SMTP server.
- In that section, you will find a checkbox where you can indicate that
your outgoing server requires authentication - make sure it is checked
- You will have the option to use the same settings as your incoming
mail server - do not use this option - you must specify the settings
explicitly, as you did in step 5 above for ChoiceMail
- Set the username and password exactly the same way as you did in step
5 above
- Click OK to close out of your email account settings.
Everything should now be configured properly