Comments on: Setting Up Outlook to Read DreamHost Email in 5 Easy Steps

By: Pete Soloway

Pete Soloway — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:56:29 +0000

I didn’t know Dreamhost even offered POP3. Thanks for the tip.

By: Jill Olkoski

Jill Olkoski — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:41:51 +0000

Sorry, I’m Jill, the author. Cristina, the other woman who said her username/password is not my client – I have no idea whether she is a DreamHost customers or not, and clearly, if she’s getting a username/password error, there’s something else amiss. Again, I’ve done this literally dozens of times and it’s worked, and if you have really specific suggestions as to how to improve, I’m happy to modify once I verify they indeed work. But I’ve never even modified port settings for DreamHost/Outlook – never had to.

By: T

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:36:42 +0000

Clearly they didn’t work for Jill above.

By: Jill Olkoski

Jill Olkoski — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:31:28 +0000

Hi T,
I’m not sure exactly what your issue is with my blog article title – these are the steps to follow for setting up Outlook if DreamHost is your hosting company – these directions have worked for every single one of my clients. I can’t make any claims as to specific port settings for any other hosting company. Can you please explain further? Are you saying that these directions don’t work for DreamHost?

By: T

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:08:31 +0000

If you aren’t providing specific information for each server, you probably shouldn’t indicate “how to set up for dreamhost” on your title, since a lot of hosts use different ports for incoming/outgoing slots.

You’ve provided a general tutorial for setting up any mail account on outlook.

By: Jill Olkoski

Jill Olkoski — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:07:30 +0000

Hi Cristina,
Please keep in mind, this is a blog, not a tech support service – and so I recommend you contact your website hosting company for this specific info.

By: Cristina

Cristina — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 18:39:14 +0000

Hi,

I am not able to set up the email outlook account for my website. It is not recognizing my user name/password. I also don’t know if I have the right port numbers 995 and 465.

Please let me know how to reset my password/user name.
Thanks

Cristina

By: Jill Olkoski

Jill Olkoski — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:50:20 +0000

Hi Linda,
Try downloading FireFTP and following instructions here:
http://www.simplehelp.net/2007/10/15/how-to-use-ftp-from-within-firefox/

There are also instructions here for how to add a WordPress Plugin:
http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/02/11/how-to-install-configure-and-use-wordpress-plugins/

Since most of my clients don’t use FTP, I didn’t want to write a post that would encourage them to FTP into their websites and inadvertently do some damage.

By: Linda Martin-Peoples

Linda Martin-Peoples — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:45:20 +0000

I love your Tutorials Jill…even when they don’t really apply to me!

Could you be persuaded to write one on http://FTP…specifically FileZilla if you are familiar with it? It still “throws” me…

In 5 to 10 easy steps, I would like to be able to add plug-ins and other things (like “Share This”) to my WordPress blog without having to call out to my very busy Techie friends for help!

I am talking “the whole nine yards” here…start to finish…
Starting with, “ok, so you have found this WP plug-in you want on your WP blog”….all the way to …”and there it is…on your WP blog.”

The more elementary, the better…for us more severely “techno-challenged” types!

Thanks a million Jill!
~Linda~