Setting Up Your E-mail in Microsoft Outlook

May 31st, 2008 by the office chic Tutorials

While many may be very well versed in setting up their Outlook email accounts, I have noticed a lot of clients lately who have it installed but weren’t using it. It seems the common explanation was setting up email accounts.

So here is, what I hope is an easy explanation on setting up your email accounts. If watching a video tutorial is more your style, scroll down to the bottom of the page to the link to TOLRA’s video tutorials.

Hopefully once you get acquainted with Outlook you will discover how it can streamline your life. Many mobile phones, iPods, client management systems & other software now sync up with it. In other words, you can have your whole life at your fingertips 24/7 if you wanted. Giving you way more time for the fun things in life.

LETS GET STARTED …..

Open Microsoft Outlook & select Tools > E-mail Accounts.
On the E-mail Accounts window, select “Add a new e-mail account“. click Next.
For your account, select “POP3” and click Next.
On the Internet E-mail Settings (POP3) window, enter your information as follows:
- On the Internet E-mail Settings window, select the “Outgoing Server” tab.
- Select nothing on this window.
- Select the “Advanced” tab and change the “Outgoing server (SMTP)” port to 25.
- Click OK.
- Click Next.
- Click Finish.
Your Name

Enter your first and last name.

E-mail Address

Enter your e-mail address.

User Name

Enter your e-mail address, again. If you have problems with your email address when testing your email account, replace the “@” with a “+”. example: name+domainname.com instead of name@domainname.com

Password

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

Incoming mail server (POP3)

[your domain name] for your incoming mail server.

Outgoing mail server (SMTP)

Enter [ISP Mail Account] for your outgoing mail server (i.e. mail.bigpond.com). If you have a dedicated IP with your ISP, you can use [your domain name]
Click “More Settings.”