How To Configure Your Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express To Work With Your Web-Based Email Account

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This Microsoft Outlook Configuration Tutorial is a step-by-step guide on how to configure your Microsoft Outlook email client in order to make it work with your web-based email account. Please note that the settings shown is for PowerSuccessHost.net host, you can fill in the settings accordingly to your own web host.

Step 1: Open Outlook, and click on the Tools menu. Please, select E-mail Accounts…

Step 2: Select the option Add a new e-mail account. Click ‘Next’

Step 3: Select the type of account you would like to create (IMAP or POP3)

Step 4: Fill in the Internet E-mail Settings fields as follows (ask your host provider if you do not have:

Your Name – Enter your name as you would like it to appear in the From: field of all outgoing mail
E-mail Address – Enter the email address which the others will use to send email messages to you.
Incoming mail server (POP3/IMAP server): mail.yourdomain.com
Outgoing mail server (SMTP server): mail.yourdomain.com
User Name: please use the full e-mail account name. Example: you+yourdomain.com (or you@yourdomain.com) instead of you.

Step 5: Click on the More Settings… button

Choose the Outgoing Server tab and check the My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication checkbox.
Check the option Use same settings as my incoming server.

Step 6: Choose the Advanced tab

Here you can choose if you wish to Leave a copy of the messages on the server or not.

Please check with your host provider whether to use secure authentication option.

Note : for Outgoing server (SMTP) port, please check with your host provider for the correct port to use.

For Outlook Express steps, is similar as above steps but the interface would be a little bit different, however I have drafted out the simple steps by steps as below :

Step 1: Open Outlook Express, and click on the Tools menu. Select Accounts.

Step 2: Click Add account and select Mail.

Step 3: Enter your name as you would like it to appear in the From: field of all outgoing mail.

Step 4: Enter the email address which the others will use to send email messages to you.

Step 5: Incoming mail server (POP3 server): mail.yourdomain.com
Outgoing mail server (SMTP server): mail.yourdomain.com
Please, set the SMTP port to 26 (or 25)

Step 6: Username: please use the full e-mail account name.

Example: you+yourdomain.com (or you@yourdomain.com) instead of you.

Step 7: Click Finish.

Step 8: Now click once on the newly created account, and choose Properties.

Go to the Servers tab and check My server requires authentication. Please check with your host provider whether to use secure authentication option.

If you want the messages to be kept on the server, choose the Advanced tab and check Leave a copy of messages on server, click OK.

Step 9: You are done!

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