Setting up Outlook is not hard!

Let’s get started with Outlook for your office or personal email. If you are not tech savvy and can’t understand this technical jargon, here are easy steps with pictures on Outlook Email Setup.

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Outlook Email Setup Process

Step 1

Open the Outlook application from the start menu or click on the app on your smartphone.

Step 2

Click on Tools and then Account Settings

Step 2

Once the new window comes up in Outlook, Click on NEW.

Step 3

Select Manually Configure server settings or additional server types in the next window and click on Next.

Step 4

Select Internet E-mail in the Outlook window and click on Next.

Step 5

Enter your name and e-mail address for user information. Select POP3 for the account type and enter pop.mail.com as the incoming server and smtp.mail.com as the outgoing server.

Enter your mail.com e-mail address and password as login credentials. Click on More Settings. Replace the text in your Outlook window “YOUREMAIL.COM” with your email address.

Incoming mail server: mail.YOUREMAIL.COM

Outgoing mail server: mail.YOUREMAIL.COM

Step 6

Select the Outgoing Server tab. Check My outgoing server requires authentication.

Step 7

Select the Advanced tab. Next to the Incoming server, enter 995 and check. This server requires an encrypted connection (SSL).

Enter 587 next to the Outgoing server and select TLS as the encrypted connection type (a).

If a copy of your e-mail should stay in your mail.com mailbox, check Leave a copy of messages on the the server (b). Click on OK (c) and on Next (d).