Setup Outlook 2003 with POP

# Posted Dec 17, 1:29pm

This article was written for Outlook 2003, but it should be usable with slight modifications with other versions of Outlook.

This article will walk you through setting up Outlook 2003 with POP3.

First, you’ll want to open up Outlook 2003, then select Tools | Email Accounts, like so:

We’re setting up a new account, so choose “Add a new e-mail account”:

On the Server Type page, make sure to choose “POP3” as the server type:

On Internet Email settings, enter in the following information (replacing “example.com” with your domain name):

Now we need to setup outgoing email. To do this, click on the “More Settings” button, where you’ll be presented with the following screen:

Click on the “Outgoing Server” tab, and check the box that says “My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication)”. Use the default radio button box of “Use same settings as my incoming mail server”:

Almost done. Now we want to change the port that the outgoing mail goes out on. We want to do this for two reasons: the first is to prevent your outgoing mail from being scanned by the Ideanode mailserver for viruses and spam. The second is that many Internet Service Providers block you from sending mail to port 25 on mailservers that aren’t theirs—they do this in an attempt to stop spammers that directly connect to other people’s mail servers direct and inject spam. Click the “Advanced” tab, then change the “Outgoing server (SMTP):” port to 587, from the default 25. Also MAKE SURE to uncheck the box that says “Leave a copy of messages on server.” If you’d like that store your mail on the server, please use IMAP instead of POP:

Click “OK,” and now we’re back to the Email Accounts page. Click “Next>”.

Click “Finish.” We’re done!