Setting up an email account on Microsoft Outlook Print

This is a guide for setting up an email account on Microsoft Outlook 2010 although the steps are fairly similar on any other version of Outlook.

1. Navigate to the file tab and click on Add Account.
2. The email setup wizard pops up. Click on Next to continue.
3. Select Internet E-mail option and then click Next.
   
4. Select Manually configure server settings or additional server types and then click Next.
5. Enter your name in the appropriate field. Then enter your full Email address (e.g [email protected]) in the E-mail Address field. (Note! You must first create this email address within your hosting service and make sure it's available.)
6. In the Incoming mail server and Outgoing mail server field enter your domain name in this way: mail.yourdomain.com (e.g mail.rackset.com)
7. In the Login Information section enter the username and password associated with your email account. The username is usually the full email address. (e.g john@rackset.com). Make sure to check to box to"Remember password".
8. Click More Settings.
9. In the Outgoing server tab check the box for My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication and then select the first option, Use same settings as my incoming mail server.
   
10. Click on the Advanced tab.
    
11. Set the Incoming server (POP3) port number to 110 and the Outgoing server(IMAP) port number to 25 or 587.
12. Click on OK to save the settings.
13. Click on Test Account Settings.  You should see the report for a test message being successfully sent and received. Once it has been completed, click on the Finish button.
14. Your email account has been set up and is ready to be used.