Trying to set up Outlook, and I need some help. I have to do

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this, for my business, for when I'm near a place with sh***y Wifi that won't allow me to go on the web and surf as I please without re-establishing the connection every 10 seconds....
Anyway, I'm setting up 4 email accounts, 5 if you count my Exchange account, which I'll need help with later. For now though, its these 4:

Hotmail(MSN)
Yahoo
AOL
Gmail

For each, I need to know:

Account type: POP3 or IMAP are my options here

This is the ones I'm really having trouble with.

Incoming mail server: What do I type here??? I have NO CLUE.

Outgoing mail server (SMTP) : What do I type here??? Again, NO CLUE on my part.

Please help me out people!! !

Thanks in advance!! !

You want IMAP- POP3 is old technology, and should be avoided at all costs.

I don't know anything about Hotmail, but you can probably google "hotmail imap settings" or something like that. Yahoo cannot, to my knowledge, be set up with POP3 or IMAP, so it has to be accessed by the web interface.

For AOL:
incoming server: imap.aol.com
outgoing server: smtp.aol.com

For gmail:
incoming: imap.googlemail.com
outgoing: smtp.googlemail.com

I never succeeded in setting up an Exchange account on Outlook, ironically enough. It would always crash on my whenever I tried, so I just switched to Thunderbird.

for gmail if you use pop the settings are:

Incoming: pop.gmail.com
Outgoing: smtp.gmail.com


Also, you need to click "More Settings">"Outgoing Server" and tick "My Outgoing server requires authentication" with "Use same settings as my incoming mail server"

You then need to click advanced and tick "this server requires an encrypted connection". Select SSL for both (depends on Outlook version) and the POP3 port should be 995, the SMTP port 465.

Hope this helps.


Also for exchange, you might have a problem with that one as exchange only works on outlook within the company intranet unless otherwise configured. I'd consult your system administrator on that one. But if you need to access exchange you should be able to use OWA which is probably accessible at http://www.COMPANY NAME HERE.com/owa - again ask your system administrator.