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What to have ready:
Before you begin, ensure that you have the following items ready:
- Email username (your full email address) and password
- Server settings for your email -we’ve created a separate article here with these settings for your reference
Setting up Outlook 2007 and adding a new email account:
- Open Outlook
- Click Tools, then Account Settings
- Click on New
- Choose Microsoft Exchange, POP3, IMAP, or HTTP, then click Next
- Your Name: Enter your name as you wish for it to appear in the “From” section when sending email
- Email Address: Enter your full email address
- Enter your email password twice
- Place a checkmark in Manually configure server settings or additional server types at the bottom of the page, then click Next
- Choose Internet Email, then click Next
- Verify that your name and email address are correctly displayed
- Verify your account type is set to your choice of POP or IMAP
- Enter your incoming mail server information
- Enter your outgoing mail server information
- Your username is your full email address, including the portion after the @ symbol. Ex. example@xplornet.ca
- Enter your email password
- Click on More Settings, then click on the Outgoing Server tab
- Place a check mark in My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication
- Click on the Advanced tab
- Enter your incoming server port
- If required by the incoming server settings for your email address, place a checkmark in This server requires an encrypted connection (SSL) for your incoming server. If not, ignore this step and proceed to Step 21
- Enter your outgoing server port.
- If required by the outgoing server settings for your email address, choose SSL from the dropdown menu. If not, ignore this step and proceed to Step 23
- Click OK
- Click on Next, then click on Finish
- We suggest you send yourself a test email to make sure your settings are working correctly. It may take a few minutes to appear.
Making changes to an existing email address:
- Open Outlook
- Click Tools, then click on Account Settings
- Select the email you wish to make changes to and click Change
- Verify that your name and email address are correctly displayed
- Verify your account type is set to your choice of either POP or IMAP
- Verify or change your incoming mail server information
- Verify or change your outgoing mail server information
- Verify your username is your full email address, including the portion after the @ symbol. Ex. example@xplornet.ca
- Re-enter your email password
- Click on More Settings, then click on the Outgoing Server tab
- Place a check mark in My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication
- Click on the Advanced tab
- Verify or change your incoming server port
- Verify or change your outgoing server port.
- If required by the server settings for your email address, choose SSL from the dropdown menu. If not, ignore this step and proceed to Step 16
- Click OK
- Remove the check mark from Automatically test account settings when Next is checked
- Click on Next, then click on Finish
We suggest you send yourself a test email to make sure your settings are working correctly. It may take a few minutes to appear.
What you’ll find here
Learn how to set up your Xplornet email address with Outlook 2007.