Last Updated on April 22, 2020 by Next Century
Follow this guide to setup your email account in Microsoft Outlook 2010
Open Microsoft Outlook 2010
Click File
Select Info from the drop down menu
Click Account Settings
Select the Add and remove accounts option from the drop down
Under the Email tab click on New
Modifying the settings for an existing account?
If making changes to an existing account, under the Email tab you will see a list of email accounts that exist within Outlook 2010, double click on the email account you wish to make changes to, then skip to skip the next stepSelect Email Account radio option and complete the following information:
- Your Name: The name you wish displayed when people receive your emails
- Email Address: The email address you are sending email from
- Password: The password used for this email account
- Re-type Password: The password used for this email account
Select Manually configure server settings or additional server types then click Next
Select the Internet Email radio option and click Next
Complete the Settings information:
- Your Name: The name you wish displayed when people receive your emails
- Email Address: The email address you are sending email from
- Account Type: Select POP3 or IMAP from the drop down
POP or IMAP?
Read the POP vs IMAP article for more information about the two types of protocols.Incoming mail server: provided by your email host
- Outgoing mail server: provided by your email host
- User Name: Your full email address
- Password: The password used for this email account
It is up to the end user to decide if they wish to create a new Outlook Data File or not, this choice does not affect the connection to the servers.
Click More Settings and select the Outgoing Server tab
Select My outgoing mail sever (SMTP) requires authentication and Use same settings as incoming mail server
Select the Advanced tab
Users can choose whether to use SSL or not, both are supported on most servers.
Without SSL Encryption
This server requires an encrypted connection (SSL) = Unselected
Change the Outgoing server (SMTP) number to 587
Use the following type of encrypted connection = NoneWith SSL Encryption
This server requires an encrypted connection (SSL) = Selected
Change the Outgoing server (SMTP) number to 465
Use the following type of encrypted connection = SSLUsing SSL?
Enabling SSL on shared email services may cause some warnings to appear in your email software.Click OK > Next and then click on Finish
This completes the setup of your email account in Outlook 2010