How do I setup a new email account in Microsoft Outlook?

Posted August 24, 2004

In Outlook;

Tools > Email Accounts > Add new account

Check the Pop3 option for pulling in email from the web

The “next” button to go to the next screen and add the information requested; name, password, outgoing and incoming addresses, which can sometimes be the same. I know this isn’t specific, but here is an example of the format

Incoming Mail server: mail1.amazon.com
Outgoing Mail server: mail1.amazon.com

Also make sure to type in the name of your email account.

When you have filled in this information click,”More Settings”

In here, go to the “Advanced” tab and click the SSL for both the outgoing server (SMTP which stands for Simple mail transfer Protocol) and incoming server (pop3). Check to mail sure that POP3 is set to 110, and SMTP is set to 465. Don’t ask me why, I don’t know exactly.

Also, Click the Outgoing Server tab.

Check “My outgoing SMTP server required authentication”

You have just set up an email account that is also secure so that your information can be significantly if not impossible to access by third parties during transmission.