Click on "Tools->E-Mail Accounts"

Select "View or change existing e-mail accounts" if it is not already selected and click on "Next"

Highlight your vail.net account in the e-mail account. This is done by clicking the left mouse button over the account name in the table (it may say "vail.net" or may be some other name you've created in the past).

Click on the "Change..." button to the right of the table

Type 'securemail.vail.net' [or 'securemail.colorado.net' if your email account is on colorado.net] into the box to the right of the "Outgoing mail server (SMTP)". NOTE: ONLY DO THIS FOR Outgoing mail server! DO NOT DO THIS FOR Incoming Mail Server.

Click on the "More Settings ..." button on the bottom of the screen.

Click on the "Outgoing Server" tab

Check the square box to the left of "My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication.

Click the round box to the left of "Log on using"

Fill in your account name to the right of "User Name:". This is usually your email account name WITHOUT the @vail.net or @colorado.net. EG: 'bob' if your email address if 'bob@vail.net'.

Fill in your password to the right of "Password:"

Do not check anything else on this page.

Click on "OK" at the bottom of this page.

Click on "Next"

Click on "Finish"

You may now send/receive email from any Internet connection.

Outlook Express

Click on "Tools->Accounts..."

Click on the "Mail" Tab (if its not already selected)

Highlight your vail.net account in the e-mail account table. This is done by clicking the left mouse button over the account name in the table (it may say "vail.net" or may be some other name you've created in the past).

Click on the "Properties..." button to the right of the table

Click on the "Servers" tab

Type 'securemail.vail.net' [or 'securemail.colorado.net' if your email account is on colorado.net] into the box to the right of the "Outgoing mail (SMTP)". NOTE: ONLY DO THIS FOR Outgoing server! DO NOT DO THIS FOR Incoming Server.

Near the bottom of the screen check the sqaure box in the section for "Outgoing Mail Server" which reads "My server requires authentication". DO NOT check other boxes relating to secure password authentication, only the one directly in the "Outgoing Mail Server" section.

Click on the "Settings ..." button just to the right of this checkbox.

Click the round box to the left of "Log on using"

Fill in your account name to the right of "Acccount Name:". This is usually your email account name WITHOUT the @vail.net or @colorado.net. EG: 'bob' if your email address if 'bob@vail.net'.

Fill in your password to the right of "Password:"

You may check to the sqaure box to the left of "Remember Password"

Do not check anything else on this page (in particular do NOT check "Log on using Secure Password Authentication".)

Click on "OK" at the bottom of this page.

Click on "OK" at the bottom of the remaining popup

Click on "Close"

You may now send/receive email from any Internet connection.