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The information you will need to create the account again is your email address and password as well as the incoming and outgoing server names for your provider. Your account name is in most cases your email address. Your display name is the name you would like people to see on the message you send. If connectivity is not an issue you can do a search for the email server names. So, once more you need:

- display name (your name)

- email address

- password

- username (email address)

- incoming server name (POP3, IMAP or HTTP)

- outgoing server name (SMTP)

Some internet service providers require that you use 'authentication'. If this is the case you must make sure to check the authentication check box provided in the wizard during your account set up. This check box is usually located on the server information screen of the wizard. I should mention that you can always access your account information located in your email client to make changes to your information should you need to. If this is something you feel comfortable doing then all you need to do to locate your information is to find it. This is almost always done by clicking on the TOOLS button at the top of the page and then clicking ACCOUNTS on the menu that drops down. Look for a MAIL tab and click that. (Have you backed up your contacts?)

Once you have clicked the mail tab you will see more tabs relating to server names as well as other account information. It is within this tabbed area that you can look for any mistakes you may have made when you initially set the account up. Or maybe the server names for your internet provider have changed. You can change that here too.

As you can see you need very little information. Setting up an email account in Windows mail or any other program is not difficult. All email clients have a wizard that will walk you through the steps of setting up the account. The most common connectivity or account related errors you will see are 0x800CCC91, which is due to a wrong or misspelled username that was entered during setup, and 0x800ccc0f which is lost internet connection. These are just two of the most common error codes seen. There are others that relate to things like attachments being to large or time outs due to filtering. There are a lot of things that can get in the way of you sending and receiving email and we have only briefly discussed the two that are seen the most.

Remember that if your issue is not related to connectivity you can easily find the server names you require to set up the account for the first time or to re-create it. There are a great many resources out there to help you with your issue. The trick is finding the right answers in a timely manner. If you need specific help then check the resource section for this article. It contains directions to specific email answers. No matter what the issue you are having with your email. A word of sage advice. Back up your contact list right now. Back up all those messages that you are hanging on to. You never know when something unfortunate may happen to your computer or your email program in general. Consider backing up your email information every six months. Put it on a disk or a thumb drive. Export it. Just do not lose it!