HOW CAN I SET UP EMAIL IN OUTLOOK?
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Requirements
Before you start, be sure you have these handy:
- Your domain name: example.com
- Your email address: username@example.com For more information, please read this article: Creating a POP/IMAP email account.
- Your email password.
Configure Outlook 2011
- Open Outlook 2011.
- If this is your first time using Outlook 2011, you'll see a welcome banner like the one in Figure 1.
Figure 1: Click image for a larger view.
- If you are adding another email account to Outlook, from the top menu, click on Tools. Then click on Accounts. See Figure 2.
Figure 2: Click image for a larger view.
- If this is your first time using Outlook 2011, you'll see a welcome banner like the one in Figure 1.
- Click on the Email Account icon, see Figure 3.
Figure 3.
- This window is where you enter your email information, see Figure 4 below.
Figure 4: Enter your email account information in this window.
- Enter Your Name as you want it to appear.
- Enter your full email address username@example.com in the Email address: field.
- Select POP3 or IMAP. We recommend IMAP. Learn more about the differences here.
- Enter your full email address, username@example.com, in the User Name field.
- Enter your email password in the Password: field.
- Next, we'll configure your Outgoing server settings. Click on the More Options... button. For Authentication, select Use Incoming Server Info. To avoid common authentication issues with Outlook, we strongly advise using SSL and port 465 for SMTP connections. Click OK to save your settings.Figure 5.
Configure Outlook 2010
1. Open Outlook 2010. 2. Click File, then Add Account. See Figure 1 below.![](https://mediatemple.zendesk.com/hc/article_attachments/202379320/Outlook_Add_Account.jpg)
Manually configure Outlook 2010
1. Open Outlook 2010. 2. Click File, then Add Account. See Figure 1 below.![www.office.com/setup](https://mediatemple.zendesk.com/hc/article_attachments/202379320/Outlook_Add_Account.jpg)
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- Enter Your Name as you want it to appear.
- Enter your full email address username@example.com in the Email address: field.
- Select POP3 or IMAP. Learn more about the differences here.
- Enter your full email address, username@example.com, in the User Name field.
- Enter your email password in the Password: field.
- Click on More Settings... see Figure 5 for the location of this button.
- Click on the Outgoing Server tab. Check My outgoing server (SMTP) Requires Authentication. Make sure Use same setting as my incoming mail server is also checked. Click on OK. See Figure 6 as reference.
![www.office.com/setup](https://mediatemple.zendesk.com/hc/article_attachments/202379740/Outlook_More_Settings_02.jpg)
Configure Outlook 2007
- Open Outlook 2007.
- Click the Tools menu, and select Account Settings.
- Click on the Email tab and click on the New... button.
- Next select Microsoft Exchange, POP3, IMAP or HTTP and click Next.
Manually configure Outlook 2007
- Select Internet E-mail option and click Next.
- Fill in the following fields:
- Enter Your Name as you want it to appear.
- Enter your full email address username@example.com in the Email address: field.
- Select POP3 or IMAP.
- Enter your username username@example.com in the "Account name:" field.
- Enter your email password in the Password: field.
- Perform the following steps:
- Click on More Settings...
- Click on the Outgoing Server tab.
- Check My outgoing server (SMTP) Requires Authentication.
- Make sure Use same setting as my incoming mail server is also checked.
- Click on OK.
- Click the Test Account Settings button and you should see all items with green check marks... Click the Close Button to close the test window. Click OK to save your settings.
- Congratulations. You have finished the setup of your email account. Click Finish to close the setup wizard.
Configure Outlook 2003
- Open Outlook 2003.
- Click the Tools menu and select E-mail Accounts....
- Click Add a new e-mail account and then click Next.
- Select POP3 or IMAP and click Next.
- Fill in the following fields:
- Enter Your Name as you want it to appear.
- Enter your full email address username@example.com in the "Email address:" field.
- Enter your username username@example.com in the "Account Name:" field.
- Enter your email password in the Password field.
- Perform the following steps:
- Click on More Settings...
- Click on the Outgoing Server tab.
- Check My outgoing server (SMTP) Requires Authentication.
- Make sure Use same settings as my incoming mail server is also checked.
- Click on OK.
- Click the Test Account Settings button and you should see all items with green check marks. Click Close to close the test window.
- Click Next to save your settings.
- Congratulations. You have finished the setup of your email account. Click Finish to close the Setup Wizard.
Configure Outlook Express and Outlook 2002
- Open Outlook or Outlook Express.
- Click the Tools menu, and select Accounts...
- Click Add and then click Mail...
- Enter your name in the Display name: field, and click Next.
- Enter your full email address (example: username@example.com) in the E-mail address: field and Click Next.
- Enter your username, username@example.com (same as your email address) in the Account name field. Enter your email password in the Password: field, and click Next.
- As for the Import screen: if you do not want to import information click Do not import at this time and click Next.
- Click on Finish. You MUST do the next steps to be able to send email via your server.
- Click the Tools menu, and select Accounts...
- Highlight mail.example.com under Account, and click Properties.
- Click the Servers tab, and check the box next to My server requires authentication. Then click on the Settings button.
- Verify the Login Information is set to use same settings as my incoming mail server then click OK.
- Click OK for the properties window now.
Troubleshooting
If you experience an issue sending email, you can try the following: Click on More Settings... Click the Advanced tab, and change the Outgoing server (SMTP) port to the alternate port of 465, with SSL encryption, then click on OK.![www.office.com/setup](https://mediatemple.zendesk.com/hc/article_attachments/202349374/Outlook_More_Settings_Advanced_tab.jpg)