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How to change your e-mail settings to use the SMTP Authentication system for sending e-mails using SSL in Outlook 2002/XP 1) Launch Outlook 2) Click on the Tools menu and then click on the Email Accounts option as shown below:
3) You should see the following window:
4) Select the option View or change existing email accounts. 4a) Click on the Next button. 5) You should see the following window which looks similar to this:
(For the purpose of this exercise, I have called the name of the account Demo.) 6) Select the name of the account (e.g. Demo) and click on the Change button. 7) You should now see the following window:
8) On the right hand side under Server Information: 8a) Change the Incoming mail server (POP3): setting to securemail.megamailservers.com 8b) Change the Outgoing mail server (SMTP): setting to securemail.megamailservers.com 9) Under the section Logon Information, the User Name is lastnamefirstname.omf.net 10) Click on the More Settings button in the bottom right corner. You should now see the following window:
11) Click on the Outgoing Server tab. You should now see the following window:
12) Make sure that the follow settings are selected: 12a) My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication 12b) Use same settings as my incoming mail server 13) Click on the Advanced tab. You should see the follow window:
14) Make sure the following options are set: 14a) Both instances of This server requires a secure connection (SSL) needs to be selected. 14b) The value next to Incoming server (POP3): needs to be set to 995 14c) The value next to Outgoing server (SMTP): needs to be set to 25 15) Click on the OK button. 16) Click on the Next button 17) Click on the Finish button 18) Click on the Close button |