Setting Up Your E-mail in Microsoft Entourage

This tutorial shows you how to set up Microsoft Entourage to work with your e-mail account. This tutorial focuses on setting up Microsoft Entourage 2004, but these settings are similar in other versions of Microsoft Entourage. You can set up previous versions of Microsoft Entourage by using the settings in this tutorial.

To Set Up Your E-mail Account in Microsoft Entourage

1. Open Microsoft Entourage 2004.
2. Select Tools > Accounts.
   
3. Click "New."
   
4. If the "Account Setup Assistant" window displays, click "Configure account manually."
   
5. Select POP for the account type and click OK.
   
6. On the Edit Account window, enter your information as follows:

   Account name

   Enter a name for your account, for example: My Mail, Work, or Home.

   Name

   Enter your first and last name.

   E-mail address

   Enter your e-mail address.

   Account ID

   Enter your e-mail address, again.

   POP server

   Enter pop3.<mydomain.com> as your incoming server (Replace <mydomain.com> with your web site domain, this is usually the part after the @ symbol in your email address)

   Password

   Enter the password for your e-mail account.

   SMTP server

   Enter smtp.<mydomain.com> for your outgoing mail server. (Replace <mydomain.com> with your web site domain, this is usually the part after the @ symbol in your email address)

   NOTE: If your Internet Service Provider (ISP) does not allow you to connect to an external SMTP server, you will have to use the outgoing mail server for your Internet Service Provider. Contact your Internet Service Provider to get this setting.

   
7. Click "Click here for more advanced sending options."
8. Select "SMTP server requires authentication" and "Use same settings as receiving mail server ." Click OK.