In order to lean how to be able to modify you’re SMTP settings from outlook, simply follow this step by step tutorial guide:
Step 1: From your start menu open the windows Microsoft office folder containing the MS Outlook program.
Step 2: Once the MS Outlook program is open go to the menu bar and select the “Tools” menu, then a drop down menu will appear scroll down and click on the “Email Accounts” option.
Step 3: Immediately after you click on the Email Accounts option a separate window will appear with in the MS Outlook application, the window should be different from the drop down menu and should have a heading of E-mail Accounts with two circular clickable buttons with the sub heads containing the titles E-mail and Directory; from the E-mail sub head simply select circular button with the title “view or change e-mail accounts” and click on the “Next” button at the bottom portion of the window.
Step 4: Moving on to the next pop up window, you will see the name of the E-mail configuration that you want to change, to do this click the “Change” button at the right most portion of the window and click the “Finish” button at the bottom of the window.
Step 5: A new window will appear with the heading “Internet E-mail Settings (IMAP)” in order to begin editing your SMTP settings, locate the heading Server information located directly underneath the server information you will be able to view the incoming mail server and outgoing mail server, disregard the incoming mail server and focus your attention to the Outgoing mail server text box and delete the old server information inside the text box.
Step 6: Once the text box is empty you may now start to type in the new SMTP Server name of your Internet Service Provider (ISP).
Step 7: After you have typed the new SMTP server name, you are now done do not change the other settings you only need to click on the “Next” button at the bottom portion of the window.
Step 8: a new window will appear, now all you have to do is to click the “Finished” button in order to apply the settings you have made and you are done.
Now that you know how to change the SMTP settings in outlook, here are just some additional tips and handy information that you may find relatively useful especially for first time users:
Consider also changing the SMTP port settings in order to allow you to be able to by pass you Internet Service Provider, changing the SMTP port will benefit you in the long term as you access and modify the setting to prevent or even block spam in your email. Check out the video for more information.
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