How to Configure Outlook

Posted by Jonh On Tuesday, February 26, 2008 0 comments

Generic Instructions:
Note: An example account name was used through the instructions. Please substitute your POP3 email address information for the account used in the instructions.

The example address is: name@domain.com
Account name is: name@domain.com
Domain is: domain.com

Configuration Steps:

1. Start your email program.

2. Find the Options/Accounts menu where you can input a new account. Look for key words such as your incoming/POP3 Server or outgoing/SMTP Server.

3. Go through the steps to add a new account to your email program, so that whenever you check mail using this email program it will check your POP3 email account.

4. When you are asked to enter specific information regarding your new account, use the following as a reference:

Your Name: Enter your name as you'd like it to appear in the From field on your emails.
User name/Account Name/Subdomain/Alias: Enter the whole email address (yourname@yourdomain.com)
Email address: Enter your POP3 email address .
Incoming/POP3 Server name: POP3.ChangeIP.com
Outgoing/SMTP Server name: SMTP.ChangeIP.com
Password: Enter your POP3 account password.

5. If you are unsure about what to enter in a specific field within your email program, please email Support@ChangeIP.com. Please include your email program name, your domain name, and the areas that you are unsure about so that we can help you solve the problem.

Follow the steps detailed below to use Microsoft Office Outlook to send/receive Email.

  1. Start Microsoft Office Outlook On the Tools menu, Select EMAIL ACCOUNTS.
  2. Select ADD NEW E-MAIL A/c and click NEXT
  3. Choose POP3 and click NEXT.
  4. Enter NAME of COMPANY OR PERSON and Add E-mail Address [name@domainname.com] .
  5. Mention INCOMING MAIL SERVER as (mail.domainname.com / domainname.com) and OUTGOINGMAIL SERVER as (mail.domainname.com / smtp.domainname.com).
  6. Specify USER NAME as Complete email account for E.g.: name@domainname.com, Enter PASSWORD: ****** and Select On REMEMBER PASSWORD [If you wish to avoid entering password every time] – Recommended
  7. Go to MORE SETTINGS choose Outgoing Server, select My Outgoing Server Requires Authentication.
  8. Further Select the 2nd point, "LOG On Using" and specific user name as (email@domainname.com) and Enter password and check Remember Password for your convenience and Click "OK".
  9. Your Email account is successfully incorporated - to check this click on Test Settings. You should not get any error in this test and a test mail will be received in your Inbox in some time.
  10. Once All tests are completed successfully. Click Close to continue and then Next.
  11. Click Finish to save the settings you have made.
  12. Click send/receive mails to get a test mail from Microsoft Office Outlook Test Center.
  13. You have successfully incorporated your email account with Microsoft office Outlook.

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