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Setting up Microsoft Outlook 2003 with Your Email Account

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Last Updated: February 26, 2009 4:47 PM

You can set up Microsoft Outlook® to work with your POP or IMAP email account. This article focuses on setting up Microsoft Outlook 2003, but these settings are similar in other versions of Microsoft Outlook. You can set up previous versions of Microsoft Outlook by using the settings in this tutorial.

To Set Up Your Email Account in Microsoft Outlook

  1. In Microsoft Outlook, select Email Accounts from the Tools menu.
  2. On the Email Accounts wizard window, select Add a new e-mail account and click Next.
  3. For your server type, select POP3 or IMAP and click Next.
  4. On the Internet Email Settings window, enter your information as follows:
    Your Name
    Enter your first and last name.
    E-mail Address
    Enter your email address.
    User Name
    Enter your email address again.
    Password
    Enter the password you set up for your email account.
    Incoming mail server
    For POP accounts, enter pop.secureserver.net for your incoming mail server, or enter imap.secureserver.net for IMAP accounts.
    Outgoing Mail Server
    Enter smtpout.secureserver.net for your outgoing mail server.
  5. Click More Settings.

    NOTE: smtpout.secureserver.net" is an SMTP relay server. In order to use this server to send emails, you must first activate SMTP relay on your e-mail account. Log on to your Manage Email Accounts page to set up SMTP relay. If you do not have SMTP relay set up and your Internet Service Provider (ISP) allows it, you can use the outgoing mail server for your Internet Service Provider. Contact your Internet Service Provider to get this setting.


  6. On the Internet Email Settings window, select the Outgoing Server tab.
  7. Select My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication.
  8. If you did not change the SMTP relay section, select Use same settings as my incoming mail server. If you changed the user name and password in the SMTP relay section of your Manage Email Accounts page, select "Log on using" and enter the user name and password. The following example assumes you did not change your SMTP relay section in your Manage Email Accounts page.
  9. Select the Advanced tab and change the Incoming Server port to 110 for POP accounts. For IMAP accounts use port 143 or 993 if you have SSL enabled.
  10. Change the Outgoing Server SMTP port to 25, 587, 80 or 3535.
  11. Click OK.
  12. Click Next.
  13. Click Finish.

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