| This tutorial will teach you, step by step how to setup Outlook 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013, Express and Mozilla Thunderbird with your Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, Hosting, and other email accounts. | |
| Microsoft Outlook is a part of Microsoft Office, if you don't have it then you should install it or use free alternatives like Mozilla Thunderbird. | |
All the Outlook settings are very similar
All the Outlook settings are very similar. Only the server settings will change.
At first you will only have to provide your name, email, user name (that is usually your email) and password.
Then all you will need, is to know your server's email provider settings.
These are the server settings for the most common email providers:
Gmail settings
You will need to enable POP in Gmail:
1 - Log in to Gmail
2 - Click on the Configuration button at the top of the page
3 - Select Settings
4 - Select Forwarding and POP/IMAP
5 - Enable POP and select what you wish to occur wen accessing POP emails.
These are the Outlook settings necessary to configure Gmail in Outlook:
Incoming mail Server (POP3): pop.gmail.com | port 995 | with an SSL encrypted connection
Outgoing mail Server (SMTP): smtp.gmail.com | port 465 | with an SSL encrypted connection | requires authentication
Hotmail / Outlook.com settings
You will need to enable POP in Hotmail:
1 - Log in to Hotmail
2 - Click on the Configuration button at the top of the page
3 - Select More mail settings
4 - Select Connect devices and apps with POP
5 - Enable POP and select what you wish to occur wen accessing POP emails
These are the Outlook settings necessary to configure Hotmail in Outlook:
Incoming mail Server (POP3): pop3.live.com | port 995 | with an SSL encrypted connection
Outgoing mail Server (SMTP): smtp.live.com | port 587 | with an TLS encrypted connection | requires authentication
Yahoo settings
You will need to enable POP in Yahoo:
1 - Log in to Yahoo
2 - Click on the Configuration button at the top of the page
3 - Select Mail Options
4 - Select POP & Forwarding
5 - Enable POP and select what you wish to occur wen accessing POP emails
These are the Outlook settings necessary to configure Yahoo in Outlook:
Incoming mail Server (POP3): pop.mail.yahoo.com | port 995 | with an SSL encrypted connection
Outgoing mail Server (SMTP): smtp.mail.yahoo.com | port 465| with an TLS encrypted connection | requires authentication
Hosting settings
These are the most common settings BUT you should ONLY use the ones provided by your Hosting service.
Incoming server (POP3): mail.yourwebsite.com | port 110 | No encrypted connection
But in it can also be mail.anotherserver.com | port 995 | encrypted connection: SSL
Outgoing server (SMTP): mail.yourwebsite.com | port 587 | No encrypted connection
But in it can also be mail.anotherserver.com | port 465 | encrypted connection: SSL
Requires authentication with your username (your email) and password (provided by your hosting provider)
Never leave copies of messages in the server otherwise your server account will keep pilling up emails until its full, resulting in errors and preventing you from sending and recieving emails (and deleting them from your Outlook's inbox will make no difference)
Other email accounts settings
These are the most common settings BUT you should ONLY use the ones provided by your email provider.
Incoming server (POP3): mail.server.com | port 110 | No encrypted connection
But in it can also be mail.anotherserver.com | port 995 | encrypted connection: SSL
Outgoing server (SMTP): mail.server.com | port 587 | No encrypted connection
But in it can also be mail.anotherserver.com | port 465 | encrypted connection: SSL
Requires authentication with your username (your email) and password (provided by your email provider)
Never leave copies of messages in the server otherwise your server account will keep pilling up emails until its full, resulting in errors and preventing you from sending and recieving emails (and deleting them from your Outlook's inbox will make no difference)