Setting up outlook

Setting Up Your POP or IMAP Email Address in Microsoft Outlook

This tutorial shows you how to set up Microsoft Outlook 2003® to work with your e-mail account. This tutorial focuses on setting up Microsoft Outlook 2003, but these settings are similar in other versions of Microsoft Outlook. You can set up previous versions of Microsoft Outlook by using the settings in this tutorial.

To Set Up Your E-mail Account in Microsoft Outlook

1. In Microsoft Outlook, from the E-mail Accounts menu, select Tools.

2. On the E-mail Accounts wizard window, select Add a new e-mail account, and then click Next.

3. For your server type, select POP3 or IMAP, and then click Next. Our servers respond to both POP and IMAP configurations. The difference between these two setups is as follows; if you want to download the email from the server to your computer and delete it from the server permanently, use POP. If you want to leave it on the server and simply view the email in Outlook, use IMAP. IMAP is typically used by cell phones to retrieve mail because it takes up less space on the device. Note that you are depending on the server to keep your mail and you can eventually run out of room.

4. On the Internet E-mail Settings (POP3/IMAP) window, enter your information as follows:

Your Name

Whatever you want people to see as your name.

E-mail Address

Your complete email address.

User Name

Your email address, again.

Password

Your email account password.

Incoming mail server (POP3)

POP or imap, mail.yourdomain.com.

Outgoing mail server (SMTP)

Same as above. Note if you are in a residential dsl environment, you may be forced to use your providers outgoing mail server. As an example, AT&T blocks port 25 (outgoing mail) so you must configure this entry with mail.bellsouth.net. See note below

Click More Settings.

NOTE: "mail.mydomain.com" is an SMTP server. In order to use this server to send e-mails, your internet provider must allow outgoing SMTP traffic. If your Internet Service Provider (ISP) allows it, you can use the outgoing mail server for your outgoing email. If not, Contact your Internet Service Provider to get this setting. They will provide an outgoing email server.

5. On the Internet E-mail Settings window, go to the Outgoing Server tab.

6. Select My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication.

7. If you did not change the SMTP section, select Use same settings as my incoming mail server. If you need to use your ISP provided SMTP server, click on the radio button labeled Log on using and enter settings given to you by your provider.

8. Click OK.

9. Click Next.

10. Click Finish.

NOTE: As a courtesy, we provide information about how to use certain third-party products, but we do not endorse or directly support third-party products and we are not responsible for the functions or reliability of such products. Outlook 2003® is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. All rights reserved.