Setting Up Your POP 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 and then click Next.
4. On the Internet E-mail Settings (POP3 window, enter your information as follows:

Your Name

Your first and last name.

E-mail Address

Your email address.

User Name

Your email address, again.

Password

Your email account password.

Incoming mail server (POP3) mail.yourdomainname.com

 

Outgoing mail server (SMTP) mail.yourdomainname.com

Click More Settings.

NOTE: “Some internet service providers like bigpond block your SMTP port 25 in which case you can change it from 25 to 26 or you can use the outgoing mail server for your Internet Service Provider. Contact your Internet Service Provider to get this setting. Please be advised that if your SMTP port 25 is blocked you will not be able to send email.

5. On the Internet E-mail Settings window, go to the Outgoing Server tab.
6. Select My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication.
7. Select Use same settings as my incoming mail server. If you changed the user name and password in the SMTP relay section of your Manage Email Accounts page, select Log on using and enter the user name and password.
8. Go to the Advanced tab, and then change the Outgoing server (SMTP) port to 25 or 26.
9. Click OK.
10. Click Next.
11. Click Finish.