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Setting Up Your E-mail Account in Microsoft Outlook

How to set up Microsoft Outlook to work with your e-mail account. This document 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

In Microsoft Outlook, select Tools > E-mail Accounts.

Select Tools -> E-mail Accounts
On the E-mail Accounts wizard window, select "Add a new e-mail account" and click Next.

Add a new e-mail account
For your server type, select "POP3" and click Next.
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.yourdomain.com, where "yourdomain.com" is the name of your domain.

Outgoing mail server (SMTP)

Your outgoing server is mail.yourdomain.com, where "yourdomain.com" is the name of your domain.
Click "More Settings."

Add a new e-mail account
On the Internet E-mail Settings window, select the "Outgoing Server" tab.
Select "My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication."
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. The following example assumes you did not change your SMTP relay section/password in previous" Manage Email Accounts" page.
Select the "Advanced" tab and change the "Outgoing server (SMTP)" port to 25.
Check with administrator.
Click OK.
Click Next.
Click Finish.

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