1. Open Microsoft Outlook 2013.
2. Click File
3. Click Info from the left side menu
4. Click Account Settings
5. Select the Account Settings…option from the drop down

 

1. Under the Email tab, click New

 

1. Note: If you’re making changes to an existing account, under the Email tab you will see a list of email accounts that exist within Outlook 2013, double click on the email account you wish to make changes to, then skip to step 9
2. Select the Manually configure server settings or additional server types radio option then click [Next]

 

1. Select the POP or IMAP option and click [Next]

 

1. Complete the empty fields:

Your Name:

The name you wish displayed when people receive your emails

Email Address:

The email address you are sending email from

Account Type:

Select POP3 or IMAP from the drop down

Note:

Read our POP vs IMAP article for more information about the two types of protocols

Incoming mail server:

pop.example.com or imap.example.com where example.com is your domain name

Outgoing mail server:

smtp.example.com where example.com is your domain name or you can enter your Internet Service Provider’s (ISP) outgoing mail server

User Name:

Your full email address. eg. johnsmith@example.com

Password:

The password used for this email account

• It is up to the end user to decide if they want to create a new Outlook Data File or not, this choice does not affect the connection to our servers

 

• Click [OK]
• Click [Next] then [Finish]

To avoid overloading your email server

1. Step 1

   Use the Start menu to start Outlook.

   When it opens, click the File tab and select the account for your e-mail address if it’s not already chosen:

   

2. Step 2

   After making sure your e-mail address is selected, click the Account Settings button to open the settings window:

   

3. Step 3

   Make sure your e-mail address is selected, then click Change.

   

4. Step 4

   Click the More Settings button:

   

5. Step 5

   Choose the Advanced tab.

   In the “Advanced” tab, make sure that Leave a copy of messages on the server is checked. Then change the “14” to the number of days you want to leave messages on our servers:

   

6. Step 6

   After you close the “Internet E-mail Settings” window, the “Change Account” screen will still be visible.

7. Step 7

   Click Next. Outlook will test the settings, then should tell you that “all tests completed successfully”:

   

   If Outlook tells you a test failed, double-check to be sure you’ve entered the settings correctly.

   If the “Test Account Settings” window is still open, close it to continue.