E-mail Setup Help Page

Choose your E-mail program
from below.

Microsoft Outlook Express

Microsoft Outlook 98

Netscape Communicator

Microsoft Outlook 98

These instructions are intended to help our customers who are running Microsoft Outlook 98 or Express configure their software to be able to use there Email with us.

1) Open Outlook 98 or Express
2) From the drop-down menus, select Tools-Accounts

3) Click the Mail tab, then on the Add button and select Mail

4) In the Display name box enter your name as you wish it to appear at the recipient's end

5) Click Next
6) In the Email address box enter your email address (ex: userid@yourdomain.com)

7) Click Next
8) Enter the mail server information, Incoming and outgoing
servers are both mail.ctconnect.net (below is an example).

9) Click Next
10) Make sure Logon using: is selected and enter the information as shown below. Note: your password will echo as asterisks. Be sure you enter your password correctly. Passwords are case-sensitive.

11) Select Next
12) In the Internet mail account name box, enter a "friendly name" for your account.

Note: This can be anything you want. If setting up multiple accounts you may want to give each account a slightly different name, i.e. "Yourdomain.com-Bob", "Yourdomain.com-Mary" etc.

13) Select Next
14) Select Connect using my phone line

15) Select Next
16) Select Use an existing dial up networking connection and make sure the connection name, the one that was created for CTConnect is selected. (below is an example)

16) Click Next
17) Click Finish to save your settings

You are now ready to send and receive email using Outlook 98. For program function and features, consult your Outlook 98 "Help" files, or contact Microsoft Technical Support Online at http://www.microsoft.com/Support/

Netscape Communicator

These instructions are intended to help our customers who are running Netscape Communicator configure their software to be able to use there Email with us.

1) Open Netscape Messenger.
2) Select Edit
3) Select Preferences
4) Select Mail & Groups from the menu. It may be necessary to click
on the (+) sign in order to reveal the sub-groups
5) Select Identity and enter your account information as below:

6) Select Mail Server from the menu
7) Click the Add button to enter the Incoming Mail Server information. Enter mail.ctconnect.net as the Server Name and choose POP3 as the Server type. Enter your username. (Remember if your email address is not @ctconnect.com, you must enter your complete email address in the outgoing mail server user name. (ex. joe@abc.net)) Now click OK and enter the information for your outgoing mail server. The outgoing mail (SMTP) server is also mail.ctconnect.net. Enter your username. (Remember if your email address is not @ctconnect.com, you must enter your complete email address in the outgoing mail server user name. (ex. joe@abc.net))

8) Select Newsgroups Server from the menu
9) Click Add and enter the news server name as news.ctconnect.net.(below is example) Use the defaults for other settings.

10) Click OK

Your Netscape Communicator/Netscape Messenger is now configured to send and receive email and use newsgroups.

For program features and functions, consult the Netscape "Help" files, or contact Netscape Technical Support at: http://help.netscape.com/

Internet Mail Setup

These instructions are intended to help our customers who are running Internet Mail configure their software to be able to use there Email with us.

1) Open Internet Mail
2) Select Mail and Options
3) Click on the Server tab
4) Enter your information as shown in the examples below.
Outgoing & Incoming mail servers are both mail.ctconnect.net

Note: password is echoed as asterisks. Passwords are case-sensitive so be sure and enter your password carefully. Your email password is the same as your FTP password.

5) Click on the Connection tab
6) Make sure I use a modem to access my e-mail is selected and that the Dial-Up Networking connection associated with your customers account appears in the box. If it does not, click on the arrow and select your connection.

Note: during your setup, you may have selected a different name for your connection (i.e. "My Connection", "Home", "Connection to 3360777", "CTConnect" etc.). Select the connection name associated with your account.

7) Click Apply and OK to save your settings.

You are now ready to begin sending and receiving email with Internet Mail. For advanced program features and instructions, consult Internet Mail's "Help" files or contact Microsoft Support Online at: http://www.microsoft.com/Support/

Microsoft Outlook or Exchange

These instructions are intended to help our customers who are running Microsoft Outlook or Exchange configure their software to be able to use there Email with us.

1) Open Microsoft Outlook or Exchange
2) From the drop-down menus, select Tools-Services
3) If Internet Mail appears on the list of services, highlight it and select Properties and go to Step 6

4) If Internet Mail does not appear, select Add

5) After selecting "Add" select "Internet Mail" and click OK then go back to Step 3

6) After selecting Properties, on the Services tab enter your account info as shown in the example below. The mail server is mail.ctconnect.net.

7) After entering the information as above, click on Advanced Options
8) Enter the name of the outbound (SMTP) mail server as shown in the example below. The name of the server is mail.ctconnect.net.

9) Click OK 10) Click on the Connection tab

11) Make sure Connect using the modem is selected. Under Dial using the following connection make sure that your dial-up networking connection is selected. If it is not, click on the down arrow on the right-hand side of the box and select your connection.

Note: during setup you may have chosen another name (i.e. "My Connection", "YourDomain.com", "home", "CTConnect" etc.) for your connection. Just select whatever name is associated with your dialup.

12) Click Apply and OK to save your settings

You are now ready to begin sending and receiving email with Microsoft Exchange or Outlook 97. For program features and functions, consult your Outlook "Help" files or contact Microsoft Technical Support online at: http://www.microsoft.com/Support/

Eudora Lite Setup

These instructions are intended to help our customers who are running Eudora Lite configure their software to be able to use there Email with us.

1) Open Eudora Lite
2) Select Tools and Options (on earlier versions of Eudora select Special and Configuration)
3) On Category select Getting Started
4) Enter your account information as shown below.

Note: be sure to enter the POP account information in the format example: username@pop.yourdomain.com

5) On Category select Hosts
6) Under SMTP enter mail.ctconnect.net (leave other fields blank) (below is an example)

7) Click OK

You are now ready to send and receive email using Eudora Lite 3.0. Once connected to the internet via your dial-up networking software, click on the Check Mail icon and enter your password (the same as your network logon password) to check mail.

For program operation and features, consult the Eudora Lite 3.0 "Help" files or contact Eudora Technical Support at: http://eudora.qualcomm.com/techsupport/

Eudora Pro Setup

These instructions are intended to help our customers who are running Eudora Pro configure their software to be able to use there Email with us.

1) Open Eudora Pro
2) Select Tools and Options
3) On Category select Getting Started
4) Enter your account information as shown in the example below. The mail server is mail.ctconnect.net.

5) On Category select Sending Mail

6) For SMTP server enter mail.ctconnect.net (above is an example)
For Domain enter ctconnect.com
7) Click OK to save your settings

You are now ready to send and receive email using Eudora Pro 4.0. For program functions and advanced operations, consult the Eudora Pro "Help" files or Eudora technical support at: http://eudora.qualcomm.com/techsupport/

Pegasus Mail Setup

These instructions are intended to help our customers who are running Pegasus Mail configure their software to be able to use there Email with us.

1) Open Pegasus
2) From the Tools menu, select Options
3) Under Categories select General Settings
4) Enter your name and reply address as shown in example below.

5) Under Categories select Network configuration
6) Enter your POP3 host (mail.ctconnect.net), User name, Password, and SMTP host (mail.ctconnect.net) as shown in example below.

Note: Your password will echo as asterisks. Passwords are case-sensitive so type it in carefully.

7) Click OK to save your settings. If you are new to Pegasus, you may want to click on the Tutorial button to run the Pegasus tutorial.

You are now ready to send and receive email with Pegasus v. 2.55. For program function and features, consult the Pegasus Mail "Help" files, or contact Pegasus online at: http://www.pegasus.usa.com/