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Go into Outlook Express or Outlook and go Tools -> Accounts... Click the mail tab and you should see your different mail accounts. I have 4 of them. Select an account and then hit the properties button. Inside Mail Properties hit the "Servers" tab and you should see your incoming and outgoing mail names. Write them down or remember them. My mail names are "mail". Now we have to find the IP of your mail server. Just go to a dos prompt and type in tracert and put your mail server behind it. For example my mail server was "mail" so I typed in tracert mail. For examples sake, if you mail servers name was penguin you would type in tracert penguin and so on. The last hop will be the IP of your mail server. Back in Outlook or Outlook express go to your mail properties, as you did in step 1. Just replace the incoming mail and outgoing mail names with the IP of the mail server. Voila! Faster email. Remember to do this for all of your mail accounts.
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