Primus Saver Email Address Setup

[ClaireStan]

A relative has chosen primus saver for her broadband. How do we setup her email acct. have tried primus website and cannot find anything

[Buenchico]

Primus certainly don't make things easy, do they? They're actually the same company as Planet Talk but most people probably won't know that, so they'd never think of looking on the Planet Talk website to find out how to set up a Primus email account. However that's where the information is actually hidden away!
http://www.planet-talk.co.uk/forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=82

[Old_Jim]

You need an email client - that's a program to get your email. If you don't have one, download Microsoft Live Mail from the Microsoft site. This link takes you to where you can download a bundle of Microsoft apps, but you can unselect everything other than Live Mail. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows-live/essentials-other#essentials=overviewother

Once it's installed, the first time you run Live Mail it will prompt you to set up an email account. Type in your email address and password and it will do the rest for you.

[Buenchico]

>>>You need an email client

Er, no you don't! While businesses continue to use email clients, the vast of majority of individuals now access their email accounts via the web. (Only a minority of people continue to use email clients such as Outlook Express, Windows Live Mail or Thunderbird).

Primus doesn't even seem to what to let users know how to configure an email account with a mail client. (The 'automatic setup' feature, built into some email clients, only works with a fairly small number of email services). In the now somewhat unlikely event that the questioner's relative actually wants to use a mail client, the relevant details are as follows:
Incoming server: pop3.primusbroadband.co.uk ; Incoming Port: 110
Outgoing Server: smtp.primusbroadband.co.uk ; Outgoing Port: 25
Outgoing server authentication: On