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 most of the previous versions of Microsoft Outlook by using the settings in this tutorial. If you are using Outlook 2000, please refer to our Outlook Express / Outlook 2000 tutorial instead

To Set Up Your E-mail Account in Microsoft Outlook

1. In Microsoft Outlook, select Tools > E-mail Accounts.
   
2. On the E-mail Accounts wizard window, select "Add a new e-mail account" and click Next.
   
3. For your server type, select "POP3" and click Next.
   
4. 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 you set up for your e-mail account.

Incoming mail server (POP3)

Your incoming server is mail.mydomain.com, where "mydomain.com" is the name of your domain.

Outgoing mail server (SMTP)

Enter smtp.mydomain.com for your outgoing mail server.

Click "More Settings."

NOTE: "smtp.mydomain.com" is an SMTP relay server. If your ISP requires you to use their SMTP server, you must contact them in order to get this information and use it accordingly in place of smtp.yourdomain.com. Contact your Internet Service Provider to get this setting.


5. On the Internet E-mail Setting window, select the "Outgoing Server" tab.
6. Select "My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication."
7. Select "Use same settings as my incoming mail server".
   
8. Select the "Advanced" tab and change the "Outgoing server (SMTP)" port to 2525.
9. Click OK.
   
10. Click Next.
    
11. Click Finish.