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Setting up a POP email account in Outlook 2010

This tutorial will show you the steps for setting up a POP email account in Outlook 2010

1) To configure a POP email account, first click the “File” tab.

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2) Then click The “Add Account” button.

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3) Enter your name as you would like it to appear in your emails.

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4) Then enter the email address you want to configure here.

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5) Enter and confirm the email account’s password.

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6) Click here to manually configure your mail server settings.

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7) Then click “Next”.

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8) Ensure the “Internet E-mail” option is selected, then click “Next” again.

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Next we have to configure our server settings.

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9) Ensure “POP3” is selected as the account type.

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10) Then enter the incoming and outgoing mail server addresses.

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11) Enter your full email address as the user name, and the password.

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12) Then click the “More Settings” button.

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13) Click the “Outgoing Server” tab.

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14) Then click here to require outgoing server authentication.

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15) Click the “Advanced” tab.

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16) If you need to change your server port numbers you can do so here… otherwise just click “OK”.

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17) Click “Next”.

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That’s it! The email account has been added.

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This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to configure a POP email account in Outlook 2010.

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