Minneapolis Web Design:Setup Your Outlook Corporate or Workgroup Email Account

How To.... Setup Your Outlook Corporate or Workgroup Email Account

If Microsoft Outlook^® has been installed with the Corporate or Workgroup option follow these steps to retrieve your messages from your pop mail account:

Open Outlook
Go to the menu option entitled "Tools", then select the option "Services"

Click the "Add" button on the screen under "Services" and another window will appear:
This will bring you to the properties screen where you will enter personalized information regarding yourself and your mail account. Enter all fields as the apply:
Click the tab at the top of this screen entitled, "Servers". From here you will enter the pop mail account routing address: mail.yourwebsite.com in the incoming and outgoing server addresses. Also enter your username in the "Account Name" box as well as your password: (i.e. yourname@yourdomain.com). Be sure to select the box under, Outgoing Mail Server, that states, "My server requires authentication". Select "OK" to finalize your changes.
After these steps have been completed you will need to log out of Outlook (close and restart Outlook) for the changes to take affect.
Perform a send and receive, your email messages will begin to populate your inbox, and your email account setup has been completed!

If you are a client hosting your website with us, feel free to contact us if you have any trouble with setting up your email account. We are always here to help!