Setting Up The Outlook 2013 Program

You may be using the Microsoft Outlook program to handle your email messages. Outlook is a very good email client program that is very much user friendly and offers a number of features. This guide provides the step-by-step instructions to setup email in Outlook 2013 program for Windows operating system. These steps can be used for other versions of the Outlook program also, but some of the steps may vary slightly.

Steps To Add A New Account

• Turn on your computer, open the Outlook program, choose the File menu, and then select Info. 
• Click on the Add Account button. 
• Select Manual setup or additional server types. 
• Click on the Next button. 
• Select IMAP or POP. 
• Click on the Next button. 

Account Settings

• Type in your Name as you wish it to appear in the email messages that you send. 
• Type in your email address. 
• Type mail.example.com as the Incoming Mail Server. 
• The Outgoing Mail Server is same as the Incoming Mail Server. 
• For the User Name field, type in your email address. 
• Type in your email password. 

More Settings

• Select the More Settings button. 
• Click on the Outgoing Server tab and then select My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication checkbox. 
• Ensure that it is using the same settings as the incoming mail server. 
• Select the Advanced tab. 
• If you are using POP3 with SSL, type in 995 for the port. Otherwise, you may leave the port at 110. 
• If you are making use of POP3, you can choose when the messages are removed from the server. 
• If you are making use of IMAP with SSL, type in 993 for the port. Otherwise, you may leave the port at 143. 
• If you are making use of SMTP with SSL, type in 465 for the port. Otherwise, change the port to 26. 
• After doing the above steps, click on the OK button. 

Finishing The Setup

• In the Email Accounts window, click on the Next button. 
• Select the Finish button. 

These are the steps to setup email in Outlook 2013 program. If you have any doubts or confusions in any of the steps that are discussed above, you can contact the Outlook help and support team for further assistance on finishing the steps.