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Setting Up Your POP or IMAP Email Address in Microsoft Outlook

This tutorial shows you how to set up Microsoft Outlook 2003® to work with your e-mail account. This tutorial focuses on setting up Microsoft Outlook 2003, but these settings are similar in other versions of Microsoft Outlook. You can set up previous versions of Microsoft Outlook by using the settings in this tutorial.

To Set Up Your E-mail Account in Microsoft Outlook

  1. In Microsoft Outlook, from the E-mail Accounts menu, select Tools.



  2. On the E-mail Accounts wizard window, select Add a new e-mail account, and then click Next.



  3. For your server type, select POP3 or IMAP, and then click Next.



  4. On the Internet E-mail Settings (POP3/IMAP) window, enter your information as follows:

    • Your Name:
      Your first and last name.

    • E-mail Address
      Your email address.

    • User Name
      Your email address, again.

    • Password
      Your email account password.

    • Incoming mail server (POP3) POP
      mail.yourdomain.com

    • Outgoing mail server (SMTP)
      You can use your ISP (Internet Service Provider) email server. In Thunder Bay the two primary ISPs are Shaw Cable Internet and TBayTel DSL Internet.

      Shaw Cable
      mail.shawcable.com or simply shawmail

      TBayTel
      mail.tbaytel.net


Using your mail.yourdomain.com (TBayIT's Mail Server)

If you wish to use TBayIT's email server, enter the SMTP server as mail.yourdomain.com and follow the remaining steps otherwise your email is setup.

Click More Settings

  1. On the Internet E-mail Settings window, go to the Outgoing Server tab.

  2. Select My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication.

  3. Select Use same settings as my incoming mail server.



  4. Go to the Advanced tab, and then change the Outgoing server (SMTP) port to 25 or 35.

  5. Click OK.



  6. Click Next.



  7. Click Finish.



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