Hello Dominicw,
If you have Hal 5.0 you can go into "General Options" and then select the "Internet" tab. Then you should see the fields to enter email account information. But it looks like that Hal will only work with POP3 E-mail type servers. If you have an ISP then the email service with that ISP must be a POP3 type in order for Hal to work.
What is POP3?...well, if you have AOL, I am pretty sure that is not POP3. Hotmail is a web-based POP3, but the last that I heard was that it does not work very well with other integrated applications. However, I did hear that EarthLink is one of the best ISP POP3's out there. Below is a link to CyberBuddy Email Setup Information and I also posted an unformatted list of the same information below the link.
Good Luck,
Rich_A
http://thecyberbuddy.com/Page28.htmlHere are some mail servers for some popular email services. Note that these are subject to change.
ISP Incoming Mail Server Outgoing Mail Server
Earthlink mail.earthlink.net mail.earthlink.net
Mindspring mail.mindspring.com mail.mindspring.com
MSN (May not work) pop3.email.msn.com smtp.email.msn.com
Prodigy pop.prodigy.net smtp.prodigy.net
Worldnet postoffice.worldnet.att.net mailhost.worldnet.att.net
ATT Worldnet postoffice.worldnet.att.net mailhost.worldnet.att.net
Geocities mail.geocities.com
Nettaxi pop1.nettaxi.com
ForFree pop.forfree.at
AmexMail pop.amexmail.com
SoftHome pop.SoftHome.net
Pacific Bell Internet postoffice.pacbell.net
GTE.net mail.gte.net
IX.netcom popd.ix.netcom.com
LVDI net mail.lvdi.net
Illuminet pop.illuminet.net
MCI popserver.sfu.ca
Gibralter Data Services pop.gibralter.com
Sprint Canada pop3.sprint.ca
SprintMail pop.a001.sprintmail.com
Bell Canada pop1.sympatico.ca
Frontier Net mail.frontier.net mail.frontier.net
Heartland mail.hcis.net mail.hcis.net
Sympatico ca pop6.sympatico.ca smtp1.sympatico.ca
Cox Cable pop.east.cox.net smtp.east.cox.net