Guide to Setting Up MS Outlook to Receive Emails

Setting Up MS Outlook to Receive Emails

Microsoft Outlook as many of you might already be familiar with is an active email client that has been designed for Windows and its different versions of operating systems. And as such, it has found popular application in both consumer and business markets.

Additionally, MS Outlook is the contact and email management software that comes with Microsoft Office’s set of productivity programs.

So in getting on with our article, for you to get the best out of your Outlook application, you will need to configure it to automatically download and also send email messages from your email account. Also note that newer versions of Outlook have been designed in automating a large portion of this process and in turn making it very convenient and easy for the user in setting up an email account. For all you will need is your account name (address) and your password to do the same.

Now, given below is a guide as formulated by the Outlook Tech Support team in helping you with setting up the same MS Outlook application for receiving your mails.

Let us take a look shall we?

Configuring MS Outlook to Receive Emails with Outlook Tech Support

The steps as per the guide are as given below:

1. To first begin with, you will need to launch “Microsoft Outlook” on your computer. Also make sure to close other stray programs and applications that might be still up and running. This is simply to provide you with your system’s maximum performance while performing the task at hand.
2. Now once you have Outlook up and running, head for the “Tools” menu followed by the “Email Accounts” option in case you haven’t been already prompted by your system to set up Outlook the first time you launched it.
3. Next up, click on the “Add Account” option and then proceed to entering your name into the box under the heading “Name”,

   Setting Up MS Outlook to Receive Emails

   your email address under the heading “Email Address” and your password under both the headings “Password” and “Retype Password”.

4. Finally, click on “Next” followed by “Finish”once after Outlook has successfully connected to your server and configured itself.

This completes our guide. Hope you found the information on this article helpful.