Setting Up Your E-mail in Outlook 2000

This tutorial shows you how to set up Microsoft Outlook to work with your e-mail account. This tutorial focuses on setting up Microsoft Outlook 2000, 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 2000

1. Open Outlook 2000 and go to Tools --> Accounts:
2. You will see the "Internet Accounts" window. Click on Add --> Mail:

3. Enter your name in the "Display Name" box and click "Next":
4. Enter your email address in the "E-mail address" box and click "Next":

5. Enter "mail.yourdomain.com" (replace yourdomain with your real domain) into both the "Incoming mail" and "Outgoing mail" boxes and click "Next":

6. Verify that the "Account name" is your FULL EMAIL ADDRESS not just your name!, enter your password, and click "Next":

7. Click "Finish" to create the account on your computer:
8. You can now close the "Internet Accounts" window:

   

9. The final step is to check the outgoing server requires authentication setting. Cclick on your newly created account > then properties > servers tab > finally check the box at the bottom "My server requires authentication" and hit Apply. You're done. Important if you skip this step you will not be able to send email!