computer dummy!!!!!!!!!a question

4wheeler

i am trying to scan and e-mail straight from my printer or picture file. problem is i need to enter the incoming address and smtp outgoing address,i did this using my local internet provider,keep getting error messages which i do not understand. i may need to use my e-mail provider which is thru excite.com but do not have the addresses. i also tried using outlook express and get the same results. it is a pain being stupid. any help out there. thanks in advance

Big Timber

Try and specify what you mean by using your printer??? Are you trying to send a scanned picture through email? I'll try and help you out if you can give me some more details.BT

Big Sky Redneck

Your ingoing and outgoing addresses are pretty common to the ISP name, example; mail.earthlink,com for both incoming and outgoing mail. If you are trying to scan a document or picture to email you need to have a folder on your hard drive to scan it to, there are really simple ways to do that and your scanning software will walk you thru that. Once you have the doc or pic scanned to the drive you may then open outlook and click on attatch pic or file. Your scanning software may even allow you to send the scan directly to outlook express. Excite an Yahoo mail among lots of others need no configuring to use. If you are using outlook express, open outlook and click on tools, then go to accounts and click add then mail. Follow the directions and you will come to a window wanting addresses, there is where you enter the incoming and outgoing address, pretty simple. Your ISP may have givin you a starter disc that should do all of that for you.

4wheeler

thanks 7mm that worked. i knew how to copy files and send e-mail but i wanted to use my lexmark 83 thru the scan control program which is alot easier and faster.