Email Setup Guide - Outlook 2002 for the PC - Secure SMTP
Last modified: October 13 2005 11:39 am
This guide assumes your email account is already setup and working in Outlook XP. If you need assistance to setup a new account please click here for the POP3 and IMAP setup guides.

If you're using Norton Anti-Virus 2002/2003 please disable outgoing mail scanning before completing this guide.


To begin open Outlook XP

1)Click the 'Tools' menu.
2)Select 'E-mail Accounts...' from the drop-down list.

3)Put a dot in the 'View or change existing e-mail accounts' option.
4)Click the [Next] button.

5)Select your mail account.
6)Click the [Change...] button.

7)Click the [More Settings ...] button.

8)Select the 'Outgoing Server ' tab.
9)Tick the 'My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication' checkbox
10)Place a dot in the 'Use the same settings as my incoming mail server' option

11)Select the 'Advanced' tab.
12)Tick the 'This server requires a secure connection (SSL)' checkbox. Replace default outgoing mail port 25 with port 465.
13)Click the [OK] button, then click the 'Next' button to close the 'E-mail Accounts' dialog box and click 'Finish'
 
Your account in Outlook XP is now configured to use SSL