How to make Outlook Express 6 working again in 2021
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                                     Step-By-Step-Tutorial by: CalmCreeper360






Step 1.1
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Install all updates for Windows Xp (including EOS updates untill 2019)

Step 1.2
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Enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 in Internet Options

Step 1.3
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Update your Root Certificates



Step 2:
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Enable full POP3 and/or IMAP in your email providers settings.
For that log into your email account on a browser.


For Microsoft account users:
click on the coghwheel and then type in POP and IMAP into the searchbar.
Then check the radio button saying: "Let devices use POP"


For GMAIL:
Click on the coghwheel
Click on the "Forwarding and POP/IMAP" tab and check the radio buttons saying "Allos POP"
and "Allow IMAP"
Then activate "Unlock CAPTCHA" and "Enable accsess from less secure apps"



[INSERT MORE EMAIL CLIENTS HERE]



Step 3:
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Fill out the credentials which it prompts you to do.

1. [Your Name]


2. [your email adress] 
(on hotmail emails never type @hotmail.com or else settings will automatically be applied
 however, those settings are old and invalid)
(MAKE SURE TO CHANGE YOUR HOTMAIL EMAIL BACK TO @hotmail.com IN EMAIL ACCOUNT PROPERTIES 
UNDER THE "General" TAB ONCE YOURE FINISHED THE "Set up Email Account" WIZARD!!!!!!!)


3.
   a)As your incoming server choose either IMAP or POP3

   b)Type in your email providers incoming and outgoing server adresses.

     
    For Microsoft accounts
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     POP3:
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    Incoming: pop3.live.com
    Outgoing: smtp.live.com


    IF NOT WORKING USE THE FOLLOWING:
   
    Incoming: outlook.office365.com
    Outgoing: smtp.office365.com 


   
    IMAP:
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    Incoming: outlook.office365.com
    Outgoing: smtp.office365.com






   GMAIL:
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   POP3: 
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   Incoming: pop.gmail.com
   Outgoing: smtp.gmail.com


   IMAP:
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   Incoming: imap.gmail.com
   Outgoing: smtp.gmail.com



[INSERT MORE EMAIL CLIENTS HERE]


Step 4
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as your account name put in your FULL email adress.
Outlook will already have something standing there like john.doe (if email: john.doe@gmail.com)
Make sure to put in your whole email adress

VERY IMPORTANT:

Make sure that the box saying "Log on using Secure Password Authentication (SPA)" is NOT checked




Step 5
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Uppon finishing setup wizard click on "Tools" then "Accounts" then click on the "Mail" tab and click on the name of your email account.
Then click on "Properties", then click on the "Servers" tab and tick the box saying "My Server Requires Authentication"




THE NEXT STEP CAN BE DIFFERENT DEPENDING ON IF YOU ARE USING POP OR IMAP
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FOR POP:
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Click on the "Advanced tab and tick the 2 boxes which say "This server requires a secure connection (SSL)"

(MAKE SURE TO TICK BOTH OF THEM)

For the "Outgoing Mail (SMTP)" type in the port 25 (IF THAT DOESNT WORK RETURN TO THE ADVANCED TAB AGAIN AND TYPE IN THE PORT 587)

For the "Incoming Mail (POP3)" type in the port 995



For IMAP: 
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Click on the "Advanced tab and tick the 2 boxes which say "This server requires a secure connection (SSL)"

(MAKE SURE TO TICK BOTH OF THEM)

For the "Incoming Mail (IMAP)" type in the port 993

For the "Outgoing Mail (SMTP)" type in the port 587






(NOTE: The settings in step 5 apply to (almost) every email account wether its a GMAIL or HOTMAIL account)


(Note 2: For some reason the servers REQUIRE you to have TLS 1.1 for the first time you want to connect to them.
 After connecting for the first time tho it would also wotk with TLS 1.0 for some reason
 I have also tried getting this method somehow to work on Windows 2000 and 98SE but it failes.
 It currently ONLY supports Windows XP Servicepack 3.
 

 If you have any suggestions or improvements to this tutorial feel free to edit this Text file as much as you want but make 
 sure to notify me or i430VX before you do that, so that we can reupload a improved version of this file on his file repository.)