{"id":239,"date":"2017-01-27T17:43:27","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T15:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/?p=239\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T09:51:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T07:51:10","slug":"configure-email-microsoft-outlook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/configure-email-microsoft-outlook\/","title":{"rendered":"Outlook Email Configuration: Full Setup Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To configure your email account in your Microsoft Outlook mail client follow the steps below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Launch Microsoft Outlook and click on&nbsp;<strong>File&nbsp;<\/strong>-&gt; <strong>Add Account<\/strong>. If you haven&#8217;t added an email account to Outlook already, the wizard will start as soon as you launch the application.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"598\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/340.png\" alt=\"Outlook Email Configuration: Full Setup Guide\" class=\"wp-image-4010\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/340.png 598w, https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/340-300x50.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 361px) 660px, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 910px, 1140px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Enter your <strong>email address and password<\/strong>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"476\" height=\"535\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/341.png\" alt=\"Outlook Email Configuration: Full Setup Guide\" class=\"wp-image-4011\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/341.png 476w, https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/341-267x300.png 267w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 361px) 660px, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 910px, 1140px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Click <strong>Connect.<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In most cases, Outlook will automatically find the correct mail server settings and will set up the account on its own. If this doesn&#8217;t happen, you can go back to the first screen, open the <strong>Advanced options <\/strong>menu and select <strong>Let me set up my account manually<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You will be given a choice of setting up either an IMAP\/POP 3 account or an address from a popular provider. Select accordingly and enter the information Outlook requests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To configure your email account in your Microsoft Outlook mail client follow the steps below. Launch Microsoft Outlook and click on&nbsp;File&nbsp;-&gt; Add Account. If you haven&#8217;t added an email account to Outlook already, the wizard will start as soon as you launch the application. Enter your email address and password. Click Connect. In most cases, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"Outlook Email Configuration: Full Setup Guide | ScalaHosting KB","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-email-hosting","tag-configure-mail-client"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5811,"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/5811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}