Setting Up Your POP Email Address in Microsoft Outlook 2007

This tutorial shows you how to set up Microsoft Outlook 2007® 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, from the top menu go to 'Tools' > 'Account Settings'.
   
2. On the E-mail Accounts wizard window, on the 'E-mail' tab select 'New...'
   
3. On the bottom left click the box that says 'Manually configure server settings or additional server types'
   

4. click the 'Internet E-mail' radio button



4. On the Internet E-mail Settings (POP3) window, enter your information as follows:

Your Name

Your first and last name.

E-mail Address

Your email address.

User Name

Your email address, again.

Password

Your email account password.

Incoming mail server (POP3)

mail.yoursite.com

Outgoing mail server (SMTP)

mail.yoursite.com

Then Click More Settings.



5. On the 'General' tab fill out your information



5. On the Internet E-mail Settings window, go to the Outgoing Server tab.
6. Select My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication.
7. select Use same settings as my incoming mail server.
   
8. Go to the Advanced tab, and then change the Incoming server to '110' and the Outgoing server (SMTP) port to 26 or 25
9. Click OK.
   
10. Click Next.
    
11. Click Finish.
    

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