Setting Up Your E-mail in Microsoft Outlook

This tutorial shows you how to set up Microsoft Outlook 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. Open Microsoft Outlook.
2. Select Tools > E-mail Accounts.
   
3. On the E-mail Accounts wizard window, select "Add a new e-mail account" and click Next.
   
4. For your server type, select "POP3" and click Next.
   
5. On the Internet E-mail Settings (POP3) window, enter your information as follows:

   Your Name

   Enter your first and last name.

   E-mail address

   Enter your e-mail address.

   User Name

   Enter your e-mail address, again.

   Password

   Enter the password for your e-mail account.

   Incoming mail server (POP3)

   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)

   Outgoing mail server (SMTP)

   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.

   
6. Click "More Settings."
7. On the Internet E-mail Settings window, select the "Outgoing Server" tab.
8. Select "My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication."
9. Select "Use same settings as my incoming mail server".
   
10. Click OK.
11. Click Next.
    
12. Click Finish.