Setting Up Email Accounts In Microsoft Outlook 2010

Microsoft Outlook 2010 comes with the MS Office 2010 suite of applications. When you install Office 2010, the various programs and applications in the MS Office software package will be automatically installed. These include various applications like MS Word, MS Excel, Outlook, etc. You can use Outlook as a separate application. When you run the application, you may be asked to activate the product. Go through the activation by entering the product or activation key.
To use Outlook 2010 as your mail client, you need to add your email accounts to the Outlook application. This can be easily done using the Outlook email setup wizard.

How to setup your email accounts in Microsoft Outlook 2010

• Open the Outlook 2010 application. Press the ‘File’ tab shown on the main screen. From the opened menu, select the ‘Info’ option. Select the ‘Add or remove accounts’ from the sub-menu. Under the ‘Email’ menu, press the ‘New’ button to add a new account.
• If you have already started an account in Outlook 2010, and are now trying to add a new email to the same, choose your account from the list displayed in the ‘Email’ menu.
• If you are creating a new account, select the ‘Email account’ option to start a new account. You will be asked to enter the various details like the name, email account information, the password details, and so on. The Outlook email setup wizard will automatically set up the settings for your account, once you press ‘Next’.
• If you want, you can choose the option to configure your Outlook account manually. You have to choose the ‘Internet Mail’ option for the account.
• You will have to enter basic information like the name, email address, password, etc, as well as other advanced settings like the incoming and outgoing servers, the protocols to be used, and so on.
• You can use a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol for your connection for secure transmission. You can use the Secure Password Authentication feature to authenticate all the messages transmitted to and from the Outlook mail client.
• Give port numbers for the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) outgoing server as 465 or 587, depending on your encryption settings.
• It is better to choose the auto setup option to configure the account if you are not sure about these advanced settings.

Once you have successfully added your email account, you can continue to receive and send messages using the Outlook