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Configuring your Outlook 2007 email client

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How can I setup email in Outlook 2007?

  • Applies to: All Service Types
  • Difficulty: Easy
  • Time needed: 5 minutes
  • Tools needed: None

Things you will need:

  • Your domain name.
  • Your Email address.
  • Your email password.
  • The following tutorial is provided as a courtesy to our customers to help you configure your mail software to work with Brainstorm hosting solutions.

    Third-party software can not be supported directly by Brainstorm Solutions. If you have further questions about configuring Outlook please visit http://support.microsoft.com/

Configuring your email client: Outlook 2007

  1. Open Outlook 2007.
  2. Click the Tools menu, and select Account Settings.



  3. Click on the Email tab and click on the New... button.



  4. Next select Microsoft Exchange, POP3, IMAP or HTTP and click Next.



  5. On the Auto Account Setup window check the Manually configure server settings or additional server types and click Next.

    NOTE:

    Brainstorm Solutions does not support this feature on our mail servers, so you should not use the Auto Account Setup feature.





  6. Select Internet E-mail option and click Next.



  7. Fill in the following fields:
    • Enter Your Name as you want it to appear.
    • Enter your full email address username@example.com in the Email address: field.
    • Select POP3 or IMAP.
    • Enter mail.example.com in the Incoming mail (POP3, IMAP) server: field.
    • Enter mail.example.com in the Outgoing mail (SMTP) server: field.
    • Enter your username username@your-domain.com in the Account name: field.
    • Enter your email password in the Password: field.



  8. Perform the following steps:
    • Click on More Settings...
    • Click on the Outgoing Server tab.
    • Check My outgoing server (SMTP) Requires Authentication
    • Make sure Use same setting as my incoming mail server is also checked.
    • Click on OK.


  9. Click the Test Account Settings button and you should see all items with green check marks... Click the Close Button to close the test window.
    Click OK to save your settings.



  10. Congratulations. You have finished the setup of your email account. Click Finish to close the setup wizard.


NOTE:

NOTE: accounts at areas where the provider blocks port 25 (i.e. TelMex / Mexico) only: If you are still having issues sending email you can try the following:


  1. Click the Tools menu, and select E-mail Accounts.
  2. Highlight the email account and click Change.
  3. Click the Advanced tab, and change the smtp port to the alternate port of 587 then click on OK.

Article details
Article ID: 1
Category: Email PoP setup
Date added: 27-Mar-2009 18:04:04
Views: 142

 
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