Configuring Hotmail or Outlook account in supported or unsupported version of Outlook 2007

Configuring Hotmail or Outlook account in supported or unsupported version of Outlook 2007

To start the new-account setup process, perform one of the following two procedures in this section:

Add a new profile

1. Open Control Panel.


2. Select Mail. The Mail Setup - Outlook dialog box appears.


3. In the Profiles section, select Show Profiles. The Mail dialog box appears.


4. Under When starting Microsoft Outlook use this profile, select Prompt for a profile to be used.



5. Select Add, and then specify a name for the new profile.


6. 6. Select OK. The Add New E-mail Account - Auto Account Setup dialog box appears.

Continue without adding a new profile

1. In Outlook 2007, on the Tools menu, select Account Settings.


2. In the Account Settings - E-mail Accounts dialog box, on the Email tab, select New.


3. In the Add New E-Mail Account dialog box, select Microsoft Exchange, POP3, IMAP or HTTP, and then select Next.


4. The Add New E-mail Account - Auto Account Setup dialog box appears.

To complete the new-account setup process, perform one of the following two procedures in this section, depending on whether you're using a supported or an unsupported version of Outlook 2007:

Add the new account to your supported version of Outlook 2007

1. In the Add New E-mail Account - Auto Account Setup dialog box, in the Your Name box, enter your name or a friendly name or nickname. This is the sender name that recipients of your email messages will see.


2. In the E-mail Address text box, enter the email address of the email account that you want to add to Outlook 2007.


3. In the Password text box, enter the password for the account that you want to add to Outlook 2007.


4. In the Retype Password text box, enter the password again.


5. Select Next.

Outlook 2007 adds and then connects to the new email account.

Add the new account to your unsupported version of Outlook 2007

1. In the Add New E-mail Account - Auto Account Setup dialog box, select Manually configure server settings or additional server types, and then select Next.


2. In the Add New E-mail Account - Choose E-mail Service dialog box, select Internet E-mail, and then select Next.


3. In the Add New E-mail Account - Internet E-mail Settings dialog box, do the following:


1. In the User Information section, enter your name and the email address of the email account that you're adding to Outlook 2007.


2. In the Server Information section, do the following:

For Account Type, select IMAP.

For Incoming mail server, enter the text that is shown for "Server address" in IMAP4 settings for your Microsoft personal email account. The address that is shown there might be imap-mail.outlook.com.

For Outgoing mail server, enter smtp-mail.outlook.com.


3. In the Logon Information section, do the following:

In the User Name text box, enter the email address of the email account that you want to add to Outlook 2007.

In the Password text box, enter the password for the account that you want to add to Outlook 2007.


4. Near the bottom right of the dialog box, select More Settings.
4. In the Internet E-mail Settings dialog box, in the Outgoing Server tab, select My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication, and then select Use same settings as my incoming mail server.


5. In the Internet E-mail Settings dialog box, select the Advanced tab.


6. In the Advanced tab, do the following:


1. For Incoming server (IMAP), in the text box, enter the port number that is shown in IMAP4 settings for your Microsoft personal email account, which might be 993, and select This server requires an encrypted connection (SSL).


2. For Outgoing server (SMTP), enter the number 25 in the text box for the port, and for Use the following type of encrypted connection, select TLS.
7. Select OK to close the Internet E-mail Settings dialog box.


8. In the In the Add New E-mail Account - Internet E-mail Settings dialog box, select Next.

Outlook 2007 adds and then connects to the new email account.

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