Configuring Simple Mail Transfer Protocol and Post Office Protocol servers for e-mail
To use e-mail, you need to configure Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) and Post Office Protocol (POP) servers on your system.
Both the SMTP and the POP server must be correctly configured.
Configuring the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol server When you configured TCP/IP, the system automatically configured SMTP for you. However, you still need to change a few SMTP properties to ensure that the SMTP server works correctly for e-mail.