Office Mail has just been installed and has no settings yet.

Click on Tools, settings to bring up the settings screen. So far so good.

Our first user is called Bob. Click on Add, and then enter the username bob and the password bob. Pretty original. Note that usernames and passwords should be lowercase - makes life easier when configuring your email client.

Then click OK.

We can now see our user bob. There is important information at the bottom of this screen which will be useful when configuring our email client (like Outlook), but we'll come back to this later.

Let's now give Bob an email address. This allows Office Mail to deliver Bob's mail to Bob. As it happens, Bob already has an email address, bob@burrotech.com. Please don't email Bob though, as he doesn't actually exist! Click on the Local Distribution tab.

Add the email address bob@burrotech.com and state that email to that address should be sent to user bob.

Office Mail will now recognise any email to bob@burrotech.com will be sent to user bob. This applies to email collected from an external source (ie external mail) or sent from another local user (internal).

Click on OK to confirm the changes we have made, and suddenly we can see that the user bob has a message! This is a welcome message generated automatically by Office Mail, so all we have to do now is go and collect it using Bob's email client - Outlook Express.