How To: Enable SMTP Authentication For Email Clients
The instructions below assume that you have already created a email account in your email program. If you need help setting up a new account, please see the email Quickstart.
Outlook & Outlook Express
- Open Outlook or Outlook Express
- From the Tools menu, select Accounts
- Highlight the account you want to modify then click Properties
- Under the Servers tab, check "My server requires authentication"
- Click the Settings button
- Select "Use same settings as my incoming mail server" then click OK
- Under the Advanced tab, change the "Outgoing mail (SMTP)" port to 587
- Click OK then close the Account box
That's all there is to it!
Last updated: Tuesday June 12, 2007 23:50:41 PDT (GMT -0700)