Setting up your email account in Microsoft Outlook 2010
- Open Microsoft Office Outlook 2010. If you have just installed
Outlook 2010 it will show in your Start Menu.
Click Start Menu > All Programs > Microsoft Office > Microsoft Office Outlook 2010. - If this is the first time you have opened Outlook 2010 then the Startup wizard will show. Click Next.
- If the Setup Wizard does not show then click the File menu and click Add Account.
- Outlook will ask if you wish to configure an email account. Select Yes and click Next.
- Select Manually configure server settings or additional server types.
- Then click Next
- Outlook will prompt you to choose your E-mail Service. Select Internet E-mail.
- Then click Next.
- You are now asked to enter your email account details.
- Enter your name
- Enter your email address. For example, your@emailaddress.co.uk
- Select POP3 for the Account Type
- Enter mail.opgweb.co.uk as your Incoming Mail Server
- Entermail.opgweb.co.ukas your Outgoing Mail Server
- For User Name, which is your email address. For example: your@emailaddress.co.uk
- Enter your email password which we have provided
- Click More Settings.
- Click the Outgoing Server tab and then tick My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication. Click Ok.
- Click Next
- Outlook will test your settings. Click Close
- Click Finish.
- Your POP3 email account now appears on the left-side of Outlook 2010.
- From Outlook 2010’s menu bar select Send/Receive, then click Send/Receive All Folders
- Outlook 2010 will now connect to your email account and show you any emails in your inbox.
That's it you are done. Congratulations. You’ve now configured Microsoft Outlook 2010 to send and receive email using POP3.