Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Steps To Setup A Pop/IMAP Email Account In Outlook

If you are planning to use Microsoft Outlook as your primary email application, you would require setting up a new email account. Outlook would help you to store your personal as well as well as contact information. Here, due to the advanced features like calendars, journals, task manager, etc. you would be able to schedule all your important tasks and events. At any point of time, you can view your personal information that is stored in personal storage tables or PST files. Hence, Outlook proves to be an essential email application, especially for the business entrepreneurs.

Some of the users who contacted Outlook tech support said they faced issues while setting up an email account in Outlook. So, if you do not know how to setup email in Outlook, use the following instructions provided by Outlook tech support to do so.
  • In the first step, you need to open Microsoft Outlook application in your system. Now, you need to click on the File option, followed by the Add Account button.
  • Now, you need to click on Manual setup or additional server types and then on the Next button.
  • In the next step, you need to click on POP or IMAP followed by Next.
  • Now, you need to enter the required information in the given spaces. You need to type in your name, and then your email address.
  • Now, you can choose the specific account type as IMAP in order to setup the account.
  • In the next step, you need to type in the incoming and outgoing mail servers. For example, it should be like mail.example.com where example.com would represent your actual domain name.
  • Now, you need to type in your email address into the User Name field followed by your password. At any point of time you can also contact Outlook tech support to know about how to setup email in Outlook.
  • You need to now click on the More Settings options and then on the Outgoing Server tab.
  • In the next step, check the My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication option, and then click OK, followed by Next.
These steps would help you to successfully set up a POP/IMAP e-mail account in Outlook 2013. For more information regarding the features of this email application, please contact our Outlook technical support team.

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