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. 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 username, for windows servers this can be 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 or mydomain.com (your admin will send you which it is), where "mydomain.com" is the name of your domain.

   Outgoing mail server (SMTP)

   Your outgoing server is mail.mydomain.com or mydomain.com (your admin will send you which it is), where "mydomain.com" is the name of your domain.

   *Some ISPs will make you use their SMTP servers to send mail to keep you from spamming. Some of these include Cox and SBC. You will have to contact them for the proper settings to work with their networks.

   Click "More Settings."

   
   
   
   
5. On the Internet E-mail Settings window, select 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. Click Next.
   
   
   
   
   
9. Click Finish.