Find Out The SMTP Server Address In Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft Corporation, the software giant has been serving us for more than a decade and they have offered us plenty of platforms and applications to work with. We have enjoyed or have at least used all of them. Microsoft Office suite is the office application that we all had been introduced to few years ago. This office suite helps us with a variety of tasks as it offers a word application, spreadsheet application, presentation application, email application and others. Among these, the email application that has been included in the Microsoft Office Suite is Microsoft Outlook.

Microsoft Outlook enables us to send and receive email messages, sort and organize our emails, organize contacts, calendars, notes, tasks and everything related to Microsoft Outlook. The messages that you send using Microsoft Outlook normally gets connected to the server using Simple Mail Transfer Protocol which is also known as SMTP. This server is then in turn accessed by your email service provider and sometimes the SMTP server may be incorrect and this might be due to incorrect configuration of the same. This will allow you in receiving the messages, but not to send them.

When you face this error, you will obviously contact Outlook support team for their assistance. They will then ask you for the address of your SMTP server. In such a situation, you can follow the instructions given below and offer the same to the Outlook support team.

For Outlook 2010

• You can open Microsoft Outlook and click File option that you found at the top of the screen. 
• Now select the Account Settings button and select Account Settings on the menu that comes up. 
• Choose the email for which you need the SMTP server address and then select Change button. 
• The Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP) field will have information about your current SMTP server. 

For Outlook 2007 and 2003

• You need to select Tools menu that you find at the top.
• Select Account Settings if you have Outlook 2007 or you can choose Email Accounts if you have Outlook 2003.
• Select View or Change Existing Email Accounts and choose Next in Outlook 2003.
• Now choose the email account for which you require SMTP server information and you can select the Change button.
• The Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP) field will have information about your current SMTP server.

These are the different steps that you need to follow for finding the SMTP server information.

How To Configure Gmail Account Automatically

Gmail is a widely used free email service offered by Google and Outlook is a personal information manager, with essential features from the reputed Microsoft Company. Synchronization of these popular accounts would help a lot of users worldwide. A lot of tasks fail when Gmail is set to automatic mode which could easily be done through manual settings. Here is one such case, which you need to take care of all by yourself. 

What to do if automatic configuration of your Gmail account doesn’t work?

Outlook support talks about errors that could happen when automatic configuration of Gmail fails. There is absolutely nothing to worry because the guidelines in this article would help you configure your Gmail account manually.

Instructions

If Microsoft Outlook was not able to automatically configure your Gmail account settings, you could still do it manually. Follow the same steps for accessing Gmail with Outlook and proceed with the instructions listed here. 

• Check on either Manually Configure Server Settings or Additional Server Types option.
• Now, click Next and make sure that the option reading Internet E-mail is chosen. 
• Click Next and the Account type should be selected as POP3. 
• Type in pop.gmail.com as the Incoming mail server. 
• For Outgoing mail server (SMTP): type in the text as smtp.gmail.com. Then, enter Gmail username under the Username field provided.
• You need to type in the Gmail password under the Password field and click on the More Settings option now. 
• Next step is to go to the Outgoing Server   and you have to verify that the option reading My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication is checked.
• Next, go to Advanced tab and proceed to next step.
• Under the title Incoming server (POP3): the option saying This server requires an encrypted connection (SSL) has to be checked. 
• Set Incoming server (POP3) value as 995; verify the same after entering.
• You need to select Auto option under the field Use the following type of encrypted connection for the option Outgoing server (SMTP).
• Proceed by clicking OK, then Next and finally Finish to end the procedure. 

Hope you found this information on Outlook and Gmail accounts useful to solve the problems you have with automatic configuration settings. Outlook support team would be at your reach 24 hours a day, to clarify any doubts regarding Outlook issues.