Configuring MS Outlook your way

Outlook.com is one of the best email clients in terms of providing a fresh intuitive design. So far it has shown how well it can perform in terms offering a fast and secure mail service. It has been always the first choice among those users who preferred desktop based email client over server based. However, configuring MS outlook settings and initializing it for the first time in desktop could be quite tricky. We understand, it’s never easy to switch from a familiar email client to one, which is not only new but also different in almost every format. Same goes for Outlook, where mostly every other mail client comes with easy setup process, setting up outlook could be bit complex. Understanding all here we have tried to lay down few common configurations which will help you make emailing under Outlook easier and convenient.

Below we are listing two basic configurations for account holder:

• Getting started with MS Outlook

            The first and the foremost step that a user needs to do to become an elite part of Microsoft community is to set up an account in their system. Before configuring Outlook in your system you required few listed information about your system and ISP. That may include your email address, user name, password, SMTP and POP 3 addresses and port number and the Secure Password Authentication. After getting all the information you’re all up to set up your Outlook account in your system. Given below a working method for the same.

• Open Outlook, and then go tool tab under that click on Email settings.
• Here click on Add a new E-mail Account option and then, click
• Click on POP 3 inside the Server Type section and then click Next.
• Enter the following information inside Email-Account dialog box.

User Information- Your Name, Email Address (provided by ISP)

Logon Information- User Name, Password (also provided by ISP)

Server Information- POP3 for incoming mail server and SMTP for outgoing mail server.

• Now the last but the important step is to test your account is connected to server or not. This involves rechecking all the process you have done till now. Just click on Test Account Settings and wait for the process to complete. Further modification can be done inside More Settings opt

 Making Outlook a one point destination for handling other email clients:

            Microsoft Outlook allows their user to read and reply their Gmail and Yahoo mails directly from Outlook interface. It can be very productive in terms of time, as a user no longer needs to login their other email account. It only involve few series of step, after that your Outlook account is all set to view and edit Gmail and Yahoo mails.

• First enable IMAP under the Forward and POP/IMAP tab in Gmail Settings.
• Now all we have to do is add Gmail server inside Outlook

This can be done manually – Under tool bar go to Account Settings then click on Add Account. Fill in all the details like

Account Type to POP 3

Incoming mail server   to IMAP.GMAIL.COM and

Port to 993.

• Enter information for your Outgoing Mail.

Server: smtp.gmail.com

Port: 587

SSL: Yes

• Enter details of your Gmail account which includes your Username, Email Address and Password.
• Now you can send and receive emails via any of the preferred account.

 By configuring outlook account, a user avail itself with the facility to have an interface of its own choice. With some minor changes under settings you can make your account behave as per your needs.