Saturday, 2 March 2013

How to Configure | Connect Outlook 2010 with Yahoomail , Gmail and Hotmail to send and receive emails ?

Hello Friends,
Today I'm going to explain you one of the most frequent doubts asked by newbies regarding Microsoft Outlook. Microsoft Outlook 2010 is an  productive suite comes with Microsoft Office 2010 through which we can send and receive emails from our desktop itself. You can send and receive emails from different Web email providers like Yahoomail ,Hotmail , outlook.com , Live.com and Gmail.com using Microsoft Outlook 2010.

The following is the procedure to Connect | Configure Microsoft Outlook 2010 with Yahoomail , Hotmail , Outlook.com , Live.com , AOL and Gmail.

a) Click on Microsoft Outlook 2010 icon in your start menu to open it.
b) Click on the ' File ' as shown in the following image

outlook email configuration graphic
outlook email configuration
c)Click on ' Add Account ' as shown in the following image.

outlook account email configuration graphic
d)After clicking  ' Add Account ', a window get opened on your screen. Select 'Manually configure server settings or additional server types' and click on ' Next '.

outlook email account settings configuration graphic
e)After clicking ' Next ', select ' Internet E-mail ' as shown in below image and press ' Next '.

internet email  POP or IMAP configuration graphic or image
f)You'll be directed to Internet email setting windows as shown.
Kindly fill up the form as mentioned using numbers in circle

internet email  POP or IMAP configuration graphic

In the above window,Enter the input as mentioned in the following steps.
(Each number refers to the red circle number in image)
(1) Enter your Name
(2) Enter your Email address of yahoomail you want to associate.
(3) Enter ' pop.mail.yahoo.com ' without ' ' .
(4) Enter ' smtp.mail.yahoo.com ' without ' ' .
(5) Enter your Email address of yahoomail you want to associate connect with outlook.com
(6) Enter your Yahoomail password associated with your entered email address.

g) After  you entered respective values into the text boxes, You'll see more settings enabled on right side of the window as shown in image below.

internet email  POP or IMAP configuration image settings

h) Click on ' More Settings ' and you'll be directed to following window.

outlook configuration more settings
i) Click on ' Outgoing Server ' and check ' My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication ' as shown above.
j)  After checking , click on ' Advanced ' and the following window appears.
Outlook configuration image settings graphic

k) In the above window ,Enter the input as mentioned in the following steps.
(Each number refers to the red circle number in image)
(8) Enter '995' without  ' ' .
(9) Click on the box to mark it.
(10) Enter '465' without ' '.
(11) Click on down facing arrow symbol and select ' SSL ' from drop-down list and Press ' OK '.

You are going to see following window appearing on the screen and after status shows ' Completed '.
Click on close.
Outlook configuration done image graphic

After clicking , The following window appears notifying you have succesfully configured | connected Microsoft Outlook 2010 with your Yahoomail.com .

The above procedure can be followed for connecting Microsoft Outlook 2010 with Gmail.com, Hotmail ( Any microsoft related email service like live.com , msn.com , outlook.com ) and AOL.
You have to just change the 'Incoming mail server' in (3) and  'Outgoing mail server' in (4). And you have to give port number in (8) and (10) which differs for different email service providers.

Click here for 'Incoming mail server' and 'Outgoing mail server' with port numbers.

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