Setting up your email with Microsoft Outlook 2007

This tutorial will show you how to set up your email account through Microsoft Outlook 2007 on a standard internet connection.

NOTE: If you are connecting to the Internet through a DSL connection, or otherwise know that your ISP requires you to authenticate (confirm your identity) prior to sending email out, please follow the “Configuring Your Email in Microsoft Outlook 2007 on a DSL Connection” tutorial.

Before you begin, be sure that you have the following:

• Your email account name and password.
• The name of your outgoing mail (SMTP) server provided by your ISP (Internet Service Provider).

1. Open up Microsoft Outlook 2007
   
2. In the upper-left hand corner, click on the Tools menu, and then find and select Account Settings. This will open the Account Settings dialogue box.
3. The Account Settings dialogue box will open to the E-mail tab. Go ahead and click on the New button.
4. Select the Manually configure server settings or additional server types option, and then click the Next button.
5. Select the Internet E-mail option, and then click the Next button.
6. This is the screen where we will be entering the bulk of the information regarding your email account. First, look to the User Information highlighted in the graphic below in the green area. In the Your Name field, type the name that will be displayed on all outgoing email messages. People who you send email to will see this as your name when receiving email from you. Beneath the Your Name field, type the complete email address into the E-mail Address field.
   

   Make sure all your email account information is spelled correctly, and remember that your passwords are all case-sensitive.

7. Next, look to the Logon Information section in the same graphic above highlighted by the red area. In the User Name field, type in your full email address. In the Password field, type in your email account’s password. The password is case sensitive, so be sure that it’s typed in correctly.
8. Now let’s move to the Server Information highlighted in the graphic above in the yellow area. Make sure that POP3 is selected in the Account Type drop-down box, and then in the Incoming mail server field, type in your incoming mail server name. Unless we’ve told you specifically otherwise, this will always be mail.[insert your domain here]. For instance, if your domains was widgets.com, your incoming mail server would be mail.widgets.com.
9. Now you’ll need to pull out some of the information provided by your ISP.  In the Outgoing mail server (SMTP) field, place the name of your outgoing mail (SMTP) server provided by your DSL provider.
10. Now, let’s finish up. Click the Next button.
11. Click Finish, and you’re all done!

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