Outlook 2010: Setting up your e-mail account

1) Start Outlook

2) Click “File” in the top, left-hand corner, and then click the “Add Account” button.

3) Input your basic details into the boxes. Your Name is whatever you want your name to be displayed as in the e-mails you send, and the E-mail Address and Password are the one’s that were provided to you.

Make sure that “Manually configure server settings or additional server types” is checked, and click Next

4) Make sure that Internet E-mail is selected, and then click Next

5) Your basic details are already input on the settings window, but make sure that POP3 is selected.

Your Incoming mail server and Outgoing mail server (SMTP) are both the same; your domain, preceded by ‘mail.’ – so, for example, if your domain was “bobsmith.com”, your mail servers would be “mail.bobsmith.com”.

Also, the User Name and Password are the same as your e-mail address and password provided to you. Make sure Remember password and Require logon using Secure Password Authentication (SPA) are checked.

6) Before you click “Next” again, click the “More Settings…” button, and fill in the “Outgoing Server” settings. Check “My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication”, choose “Log on using” and then input your details (the same as your incoming/outgoing server details. Now hit “Okay”.

7) Now hit “Next” – the server will test your e-mail details, and if they are correct, then you will have successfully configured your e-mail account! If you would like to add another account, then just click the “Add another account…” button, or, just click “Finish”.

If you have any issues with setting up your e-mail account, then please feel free to get in touch, and we’ll help you as best we can to get your account setup.