eMail Setup in Microsoft Outlook

Roger Wheatley on January 27, 2010 in Tutorials | 1 comment

Here is how to set up Microsoft Outlook to work with your email account (which is part of your hosting service). The version used is Microsoft Outlook 2003, but these settings are similar in other versions of Outlook as well, (previous versions of Outlook use the same settings).

1. Select Tools/eMail Accounts.
2. Select “Add a new eMail account” and click Next.
3. Select “POP3″ and click Next.
4. On “Internet eMail Settings (POP3)” window, enter your information as follows:

Your Name
Enter your first and last name.
eMail Address
Enter your web hosting related email address.
User Name
Enter your web hosting related email address, again.
Password
Enter the password you set up for your web hosting related email account.
Incoming mail server (POP3)
Your incoming server is yourdomain.com, where “yourdomain.com” is the actual name of your domain.
Outgoing mail server (SMTP)
Enter smtp.yourISP.com for your outgoing mail server. Use the outgoing SMTP address your ISP provider gave you. (If you use Roger’s High Speed Internet, then you should enter: smtp.broadband.rogers.com). Click “More Settings”

1. On the Internet eMail Settings window, select the “Outgoing Server” tab.
2. Select “My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication.”
3. Select “Log on Using” and enter the username and password for outgoing email (SMTP) provided by your ISP.
4. Select the “Advanced” tab and change the “Outgoing server (SMTP)” port to the port number your ISP gave you. If you are a Roger’s High Speed Internet client, your (SMTP) port number will be 587. If you wish to leave mail on the server for a few days, select the “Leave a copy of messages on the server” option and select a reasonable number of days.
5. Click “Okay”, click “Next”.
6. Click “Finish”.

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