Outlook 2007 is a personal information manager that was developed by Windows as a part of their Microsoft Office suite. With this application, you can setup and configure your own email account to the application so that there is no need for you to login to your mail server, be it from webmail program or from your own domain name. This application is useful as it has a lot of other features that are included in the program such as calendar, journal, task manager and even a contact manager. By configuring your own email account in Outlook, 2007 you can be able to send and receive emails from your own email account. However, this email application program should not be mistaken as an email account provider. Outlook 2007 does not create a new email account; it only gives access to your email accounts. Just remember that an existing email account should exist to be able to use this application.

To learn how to setup an email account in Outlook 2007, the instructions below will guide you:

1. To setup a new email account in Outlook 2007, click the Tools link.

2. On the drop down box that will appear, click Account Settings.

3. The Email Accounts window will now appear. Click the New button.

4. On the next window that will appear, enter a name that you wish to appear in the form filed of any outgoing emails in the box beside Your Name.

5. Enter your new email address in the E-mail Address box.

6. Enter your chosen password for the new email account in the password box.

7. Re-enter your password in Retype Password box for confirmation of the password.

8. Tick the box if you wish to manually configure your server settings.

9. Click Next.

10. On the next window, select Internet E-mail to ensure that this new email account can connect to your POP, IMAP or HTTP server to be able to receive and send email messages.

11. Click Next again.

12. The Internet E-mail Settings window will now appear. Click the Account Type drop down box.

13. From the choices available, select POP3.

14. Then enter your Incoming (POP3) server settings in the Incoming mail server box.

15. Enter your Outgoing (SMTP) server settings in the Outgoing mail server box.

16. On the Logon Information area, enter the username that your hosting provider provided to you, this information is typically your email address.

17. Then enter your password.

18. Click the More Settings button.

19. On the next window that will pop up, click the Outgoing Server tab.

20. For SMTP Authentication, check the box beside My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication. This means that Outlook is authenticated and will login to your mail server and through the application, you can receive and send emails from your account and only you are allowed to do that. Leave the Use same settings as my incoming mail server as it is because usually, most SMTP servers use the same username and password. Click OK.

21. Click Next.

22. Click Finished.

23. Our email account has been successfully setup and we can now be able to receive and send emails by using Outlook 2007 without ever logging in to our mail server account.

24. Click Close.

25. This is the end of the demo. You now know how to setup an email account in Outlook 2007. However, be reminded though that you have to setup an email account first in your hosting account so that this feature will work.

26. Thank you for watching the video tutorial above. Please let us know if you have any questions.