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 2007, 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 > Account Settings...
   
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. Chose Manually configure server settings or additional server types

   Click "Next"

   
5. Internet E-mail

   Click "Next"

   
   
6. 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.

   Account Type:

   Choose pop3

   Incoming mail server (POP3)

   Enter mail.yourdomain.com for your incoming mail server.

   Outgoing mail server (SMTP)

   Enter mail.yourdomain.com for your outgoing mail server.

   User Name

   Enter your e-mail address, again.

   Password

   Enter the password you set up for your e-mail account.

   
7. Click Next
   
8. Congratulations!