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Email Application Setup - Outlook 2010 for Windows
This guide will show step-by-step instructions for setting up E-mail on Outlook 2010 for Windows. While it can be used for other versions of Outlook, some screens and steps might vary.
Adding a new account:
- Select the 'File' menu
- Select Info
- Click the Add Account button
- Choose Manually configure server settings
- Click Next
- Choose Internet E-Mail
- Click Next
Account Settings
- Enter your name as you want it to appear on your outbound email messages
- Enter your full email address
- Enter your full email address also as the User Name
- Enter your email password
- Your mail server is mail.YourDomain.com, eg mail.example.com (where YourDomain.com is your own domain name)
- The Outgoing Mail Server is the same as your incoming mail server
More Settings
- Click the More Settings button
- Click the Outgoing Server tab
- Check the "My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication" checkbox
- Check "use the same settings as your incoming mail server"
- Click the Advanced tab
- If you are using POP3 with SSL, click the checkbox and enter 995 as your port. Otherwise leave the default port at 110
- If you are using POP3, you may choose when messages are removed from the server
- If you are using IMAP with SSL, click the checkbox and enter 993 as your port. Otherwise leave the default port at 143
- If you are using SMTP with SSL, click the checkbox and enter 465 as your port. Otherwise change the non-default port to 26
- Click the OK button
Testing Settings
- While on the E-mail Accounts screen, click the Test Account Settings button
- This will both check your settings and send a test email to yourself to confirm that everything is working. If you receive any errors, please check your configuration
- Click the Close button on the Test Account Settings window
- Click Next on the E-mail Accounts window
- Click the Finish button
Outlook 2010 is now correctly configured to send and receive emails
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