Set up your email software with your Verizon email account settings Outgoing email - had to change authentication & port this morning Why won't Outlook 2013 allow me to set up a email account?

Here are some other pages that helped me for reference: I hope this brings some clarity for those of you who, like me, have trouble following some of the other posts and don't fully understand what is needed when they just say what the settings are without SHOWing how they are set. (8) You should be able to complete your setup. If your settings are correct, you will see Succes in both receiving and sending email. (7) Now, back on the Account setting screen, click 'Test Account Settings'. NOTE: You can optionally set the items in the 'Delivery' section of the screen. (d) 'Use the following type of encrypted connection', select 'SSL' from the drop-down. (b) Check, 'This server requires an encrypted connection (SSL) The four settings you will be most interested in are: Next, select 'Log On using' and enter your user name and password that you use to login to your Verizon account at Note: DO NOT check 'Require Secure Password.'. Under the 'Outgoing Server' tab, check 'My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication. The two tabs that will be the most interest to you are 'Outgoing Server' and 'Advanced.' (4) Next, click the 'More Settings' button. '' (as of ) is the correct outgoing SMTP server. (If you have seen references to ',' these are older references. Note, that the OUTGOING MAIL SERVER is set to ''. (Here, I use Netzero's POP server, but you would replace with your emai account's POP server). (3) In the 'Internet E-mail Settings' window, fill in your information. (2) Once the 'Account Settings' window opens, either select 'New' to create a new account, or 'Change' to update your existing account. (1) In Outlook, under 'File', select 'Account Settings' The idea is that your email will be received from the POP3 server that belongs to the provider of your email address. (my example is with NetZero but these settings can be used for any other account). After culling through many posts, I was able to piece together what I needed to make it work, and I thought I would share. Here is a Resolution! I've spent hours trying to set up my Outlook 2010 to work with my third-party (non-verizon) email, and I finally came up with a resolution.

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