Setting Up Your POP or IMAP Email Address in Microsoft Outlook 2013
This tutorial focuses on setting up Microsoft Outlook 2013, 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.
- Open Microsoft Outlook 2013
A window welcoming you for the first time will pop up. Click Next to proceed with your setup.
- Configure Your Email Account
When the next window appears, tick Yes and click Next once again.
Then, choose the option for “Manual setup or additional server types”, enter your email address, password, and proceed to the next window.
- On the screen below, choose POP or IMAP and click Next to proceed.
- Enter the corresponding settings in the following forms. Choose your desired account type (POP or IMAP), fill in both incoming mail server and outgoing mail server with the information you got from your control panel, and insert your full email address on the user name column along with the password.
Then, click More Settings.
- In the next popup window, navigate to the Outgoing Server tab and tick the box behind “My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication”. Then, select “Use same settings as my incoming mail server” as seen below.
- Then, go to the Advanced tab. Fill in the server port numbers and encrypted connection as seen below, then click OK.
| Secure SSL/TLS Settings (Recommended) | Non-SSL Settings (NOT Recommended). |
|---|---|
|
Incoming Server: IMAP Port: 993 POP3 Port: 995 |
Incoming Server: IMAP Port: 143 POP3 Port: 110 |
|
Outgoing Server: SMTP Port: 465 |
Outgoing Server: SMTP Port: 587 |
- After that, click Next and Outlook will test your account settings to see if things are going well. It will look like the screen below if it succeeds.
- Then, just click Close and a window prompting that the setup process has finished will appear.
- Just click Finish to be directed to Microsoft Outlook 2013 interface as seen below.
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