Runbox Outlook IMAP – Create a Runbox IMAP Connection to Outlook 2010

When we set this up, your Runbox Mail will appear within its own set of folders in Outlook, neatly separating it from the rest of your mail, while still giving you access to all of Outlook’s power and mail-handling tools.

And because on this page we are setting up the connection with the IMAP protocol, you can continue to work with your Runbox Mail through the web interface you are used to or through Outlook, whichever is convenient for you at the time.

By taking a few minutes to configure Outlook and Runbox IMAP settings, you can ensure that your Runbox mail is always synchronized between the Runbox servers and the Outlook mailbox. This way, when you make a change using the Runbox web interface it automatically gets reflected in Outlook 2010, and vice versa.

As you can imagine, this is a huge advantage if your ever have need to check your mail when you are away from the computer running Outlook. Even better, it only takes a few minutes to configure your Runbox Outlook IMAP connection, so let’s get started.

Make a Runbox IMAP connection to Outlook 2010

Follow these steps to configure Outlook 2010 for a Runbox IMAP connection. There are a lot of steps, but don’t worry. I prefer to break things out into the smallest possible steps to minimize the chance of mistakes. We’re also going to configure this totally manually to ensure that the settings are all the way we want them.

Please follow these steps to get Outlook configured:

1. In the Outlook main window, click the File tab on the ribbon, then Info, then Add Account. This opens the Auto Account Setup screen.
2. Set the Manually configure server settings or additional server types checkbox and click Next to go to the Choose Service screen.





3. Select Internet E-mail, then click Next to go to the Internet E-mail Settings screen.





4. Enter your name as you want it to appear in messages in the Your Name field.
5. Enter your full Runbox email address (user@runbox.com or user@yourdomain.com) in the E-mail Address field.
6. Select IMAP in the Account Type list.
7. Enter secure.runbox.com in the Incoming mail server (IMAP) field and secure.runbox.com in the Outgoing mail server (SMTP) field.
8. Enter your Runbox user name in the User Name field. For an account that includes “@runbox.com,” enter the part of your email address before the “@runbox.com”. If you have your own domain name, enter your mail address including the “@yourdomain.com”.
9. Enter your Runbox password in the Password field.
10. Set the Remember password checkbox if you don’t want to have to enter your password manually each time Outlook checks your mail.
11. Make sure that the checkbox next to Require logon using Secure Password Authentication (SPA) is CLEARED.
12. Under the “Deliver new messages to” heading, select New Outlook Data File to store your Yahoo messages separate from your other messages. The messages will appear in the Inbox just like all the rest of your Outlook mail, but won’t be stored with your other (corporate?) messages on the server.





13. Click More Settings to open the Internet E-mail Settings dialog box.
14. Click the Outgoing Server tab to see the “Outgoing Server” page.




15. Set the My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication checkbox.




16. Make sure the Use same settings as my incoming mail server option is selected.




17. Click the Advanced tab to see the “Advanced” page.




18. Enter 993 into the “Incoming server (IMAP)” field.




19. Select SSL in the “Use the following type of encrypted connection” field.




20. Enter 26 into the “Outgoing server (SMTP)” field.




21. Select Auto in the “Use the following type of encrypted connection” field.




22. Click OK to return to the “Internet E-mail Settings” window.




23. Click the Test Account Settings button. A “Test Account Settings” dialog box appears.




24. You may see a dialog box warning you that your browser could not verify the security certificate for the site. You can safely ignore this.




25. After Outlook and the Runbox servers negotiate for a bit, you should see a Congratulations message in the “Test Account Settings” dialog box.




26. Click Close to close this dialog box.




27. Click Next to close the “Add New Account” wizard.

Assuming you got the congratulations message, you’re done. Your Runbox Outlook 2010 IMAP connection is configured. If you take a look at the Navigation Pane in any Outlook Mail view, you should see a set of folders named after your Runbox Mail address. They should exactly mirror the structure of the folders in your Runbox web interface, and all your Runbox messages should be available.

IMPORTANT: Now and in the future, it may take a few minutes for the contents of your Runbox accounts to appear in Outlook. This is normal and nothing to worry about.

If you didn’t get the congratulations message, go back to the beginning of the steps and walk through them again to confirm that all the settings are the way you want them. That should resolve the problem. If it doesn’t, please leave me a message below, and we’ll see if we can figure it out.

NOTE: If the test shows that you can receive messages fine, but you can’t send them, it is possible that the Runbox IMAP settings we have just configured are not to blame. This kind of problem is often caused by factors outside the Runbox Outlook 2010 connection itself. I’ve posted instructions for troubleshooting that kind of problem on the Can’t Send Email page.

This is the end of the Runbox Outlook 2010 IMAP configuration process.

From here you can:

Return to the top of this Runbox Outlook 2010 page.

Go to the main Runbox Outlook 2010 page.

Go to the main Outlook 2010 email accounts page.

Go to the Outlook 2010 home page.

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The Runbox Outlook 2010 Connection: Offshore Email Hosting for Enhanced Privacy

Since you are reading this, you probably already understand the benefits of an offshore email account and how a Runbox Outlook 2010 connection can give you greater email privacy. If not, you can get caught up with this post, “Offshore Email for Enhanced Email Privacy” at http://IWantMyEmail.com

Creating a Runbox Outlook 2010 connection like this will make your life easier, since it lets you work with your offshore email account in the familiar Outlook interface. And because Runbox supports secure SSL connections, your messages remain protected as they travel the networks between wherever you are and the Runbox servers in Norway.

With all that out of the way, we’re almost ready to start making the connection. But first, we need to address two issues:

1. Do you have a Runbox account yet?
2. Do you want a POP3 or an IMAP connection?

The first issue is simple. If you need to create a Runbox account, you’ll find detailed instructions for doing so in this post: Creating a Runbox.com Account. The link opens a new browser window with the instructions you need, so return here when you are done setting up the account by simply closing that window.

The second issue requires a little thought. Each approach has benefits and drawbacks. POP3 first…

With a POP3 connection, Outlook downloads a copy of each message from the Runbox servers to the Outlook Inbox, then deletes it from the Runbox server. Because these messages are treated like any other message in the Outlook Inbox, you have all of Outlook 2010′s tools at your disposal when you work with them. In addition, some privacy experts suggest that you never leave copies of messages on anyone’s email server, no matter how secure and private it might be.

On the other hand, when you use a POP3 connection, once Outlook copies them, you no longer have access to your messages through the Runbox web interface. If you need access to your offshore email account when you are away from your usual computer, this can be a big problem.

With an IMAP connection, Outlook creates a set of folders that corresponds to your folders on the Runbox servers, and synchronizes messages between them. You have work with your mail using either Outlook or the Runbox web interface. If you are need access when you are away from your regular computer, this is a very powerful benefit. And if you are like me, wanting to use multiple devices with the same email account, IMAP is a necessity since it can synchronize your mail between all of them.

On the negative side, when you use IMAP your messages don’t end up in the Outlook Inbox. They end up in their own set of folders in Outlook. Some of Outlook’s features (such as the full range of categories), aren’t available because they aren’t supported by the IMAP standard. And finally, there is the fact that copies of your messages still reside on the Runbox servers, which some security experts think you should avoid.

I personally use the IMAP interface so I can sync my mail between multiple email clients, but I’ve included links to instructions for either approach, so you can choose for yourself.

Configuring Your Runbox Outlook 2010 Offshore Email Connection

Please click the link below that corresponds to the kind of connection you want to make between Runbox and Outlook 2010. They’ll take you to the appropriate instructions for getting it done. And don’t be worried that there are a lot of steps shown. I believe in breaking the instructions down as much as possible, going on the assumption that you are a normal person who wants to set this up, not some kind of tech geek who configures email services for a living. Ready? Let’s do this.

• Make a Runbox Outlook POP3 Connection
• Make a Runbox Outlook IMAP Connection

From here you can:

Return to the top of this Runbox Outlook page.

Go to the main Outlook 2010 email accounts page.

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Make a Runbox Outlook POP3 Connection

If you’re ready to make a POP3 connection between Runbox and Outlook 2010, you’ve come to the right place. The following section walks you through the process:

NOTE: As part of the process for setting up a Runbox Outlook 2010 connection, you will tell the offshore email servers (Norwegian email servers to be more exact) not to keep copies of messages on the server once you view them with Outlook. This means they will not be visible from the Web once you read them with Outlook. This is most likely the way you want things to work anyway (having multiple versions of a message floating around is a recipe for confusion), but is something to be aware of.

Configure Your Runbox Outlook 2010 Connection for POP3

We are going to set up our Runbox Outlook 2010 connection manually to be sure we get everything exactly the way we want it. The procedure is similar, but not identical to configuring earlier versions of Outlook. Please follow these steps to get Outlook configured:

1. In the Outlook main window, click the File tab on the ribbon, then Info, then Add Account. This opens the Auto Account Setup screen.
2. Set the Manually configure server settings or additional server types checkbox and click Next to go to the Choose Service screen.





3. Select Internet E-mail, then click Next to go to the Internet E-mail Settings screen.





4. Enter your name as you want it to appear in messages in the Your Name field.
5. Enter your full Runbox email address (user@runbox.com or user@yourdomain.com) in the E-mail Address field.
6. Select POP3 in the Account Type list.
7. Enter secure.runbox.com in the Incoming mail server (POP3) field and secure.runbox.com in the Outgoing mail server (SMTP) field.
8. Enter your Runbox user name in the User Name field. For an account that includes “@runbox.com,” enter the part of your email address before the “@runbox.com”. If you have your own domain name, enter your mail address including the “@yourdomain.com”.
9. Enter your Runbox password in the Password field.
10. Set the Remember password checkbox if you don’t want to have to enter your password manually each time Outlook checks your mail.
11. Make sure that the checkbox next to Require logon using Secure Password Authentication (SPA) is CLEARED.
12. Under the “Deliver new messages to” heading, select New Outlook Data File to store your Yahoo messages separate from your other messages. The messages will appear in the Inbox just like all the rest of your Outlook mail, but won’t be stored with your other (corporate?) messages on the server.





13. Click More Settings to open the Internet E-mail Settings dialog box.
14. Click the Outgoing Server tab.





15. Set the My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication checkbox.
16. Select Use same settings as my incoming mail server.
17. Click the Advanced tab.





18. Enter 995 in the Incoming server (POP3) box.
19. Set the This server requires an encrypted connection (SSL) checkbox under Incoming server (POP3).
20. Enter 26 in the Outgoing server (SMTP) box.
21. Select Auto in the “Use the following type of encrypted connection” box under Outgoing server (SMTP)
22. Clear the Leave a copy of messages on the server checkbox.
23. Click OK to return to the Internet E-mail Settings screen.
24. Click Test Account Settings. The Test Account Settings dialog box appears and Outlook sends a test message using the settings you have just entered. If the test was successful, a Congratulations! message appears in the dialog box. Your Runbox Outlook 2010 connection is set up properly. Click Close to close this dialog box. If you didn’t see the Congratulations! message, go back through this procedure from the top to check all your settings.
25. Click Next, then Finish.

NOTE: If the test shows that you can receive messages fine, but you can’t send them, the problem is often caused by factors outside the Runbox Outlook 2010 POP3 connection you just set up. I’ve posted instructions for troubleshooting that kind of problem on the Can’t Send Email page.

Now you’re ready to go. You should have a functional Runbox Outlook 2010 POP3 connection, and Outlook should start downloading mail from your Runbox account. Note that it could take a few minutes for changes to appear in your Runbox Inbox on the web.

From here you can:

Return to the top of this Runbox Outlook POP3 page.

Return to the main Runbox Outlook page.

Go to the main Outlook 2010 email accounts page.

Go to the Outlook 2010 home page.

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On this page I am creating a step-by-step guide for migrating from a Yahoo Business Mail account to a Hosted exchange account provided by Pay Per Cloud. I’m working closely with them to ensure that we cover every aspect of the process, since something as important as moving your primary email address isn’t something to do lightly, or with half-baked instructions!

Check back by the end of February, by which time I will have migrated my own Yahoo Mail Plus account so will have all the details for you.

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How to Make an AOL Outlook 2010 Connection

Are you ready to make an AOL Outlook 2010 connection? There was a time when AOL mail was a proprietary system, part of the America Online empire. It was hard to work with for Outlook users like us, and of course you had to be a paying AOL member to even use the system.

Note: If you are looking to connect Outlook 2007 to your AOL mail, then you should go to this AOL Outlook 2007 connection page.

But all that has changed. AOL mail is now a free service that uses the POP3 and IMAP protocols which are standard in the industry. Even better, Outlook 2010 knows how to configure an AOL Outlook connection using the IMAP protocol automatically. All this makes AOL mail a very viable service to use with Outlook.

There’s just one small hitch.

But no worries. This may not even hit you, and if it does, the problem is easy to resolve. I’ve included detailed instructions for doing exactly that below the AOL mail Outlook connection instructions for anyone who gets bit by this (like I did).

So let’s get your new connection set up, shall we?.

On this page, I’ll walk you through the process of configuring an IMAP (link opens in new window) AOL Outlook 2010 mail connection. Because we will be setting up an IMAP connection, you’ll be able to use either Outlook or your web browser with your AOL mail account. The changes you make are automatically synchronized between each.

So with a few moments work you’ll be able to centralize all your email handling in Outlook, yet still be able to use the AOL mail web interface whenever you want. That will surely save some time and hassles.

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Making an AOL Outlook 2010 Connection

Let’s get started. This will only take a few minutes.

NOTE: These instructions assume you already have an AOL Mail account set up. If not, you need to sign up for one first (remember, AOL mail is now free). The following link opens a new window and takes you to the AOL mail home page so you can sign up for an account. Once there, click the Mail link and follow the instructions for setting up an account. When you finish, close that window to come back here.

1. In Outlook 2010, click the File tab on the Ribbon. In the “File” menu that appears, click Info to display the “Account Information” screen shown below.

2. Click Add Account to open the “Add New Account” page of the “Auto Account Setup” wizard.

3. Select the E-Mail Account option, then enter your account information (the Name you want to use with AOL mail, your full AOL email address and password) on this screen, then click Next. This tells Outlook 2010 to try to configure itself automatically. This will probably take several minutes, during which time the screen may look something like the one below.

4. Once the wizard establishes a successful AOL to Outlook 2010 connection, it displays the congratulations screen shown below.

With the new account set up, Outlook includes a new folder in the Navigation Pane that corresponds to your GMX mailbox folders. That’s all there is to setting up an AOL Outlook connection using the automatic setup process.

Unless of course, you get a message stating that you can’t send email!

What to Do if Your New AOL Outlook 2010 Connection Won’t Send Mail

As an additional security measure, AOL may require you to complete a simple security step to prove that you are a human being and not some spam-spewing robot. This confused me at first, because I was setting up the connection through a small ISP in South America, and I assumed that it was one of those “can’t send email from this location” kind of problems. A little research showed that this is something much easier to fix.

If you get hit with the can’t send mail message after setting up your connection, you need to go to http://challenge.aol.com/spam.html and type in the words you see on the screen. Doing so correctly tells AOL that you are a person, and activates your ability to send mail using your AOL account.

Once I completed this step, my AOL mail Outlook 2010 connection started functioning perfectly, and yours should too.

Now that you have a working AOL Outlook connection, do you have other webmail accounts (Yahoo Mail or Gmail perhaps?) you want to get connected to Outlook too? If so, you’ll find directions for doing so on this Outlook 2010 Email Accounts page.

If you would like to tell Outlook to open to the folder you just created with this AOL Outlook connection, rather than the default Outlook Inbox, visit this Startup Folder page.

From here you can:

Go to the main Outlook 2010 email accounts page.

Go to the Outlook 2010 home page.

Return to the top of this AOL Outlook 2010 page.

Go to the instructions for making an AOL Outlook 2007 connection.

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Gmail with Outlook – Making the Gmail Outlook Connection

Author: Bill Mann

Would you like to connect Outlook to a Web-based email account? If so, there are lots of options. Many huge companies, like Yahoo!, Microsoft, and Google offer free web-based email accounts, as do hundreds of smaller companies.

But not all free accounts will work well with Outlook. That’s why the top choice for most people is to connect Google’s Gmail with Outlook. Once you have a Gmail account, it only takes a few minutes to configure the Gmail Outlook connection.

This allows you to use Outlook to read messages sent to your Gmail account. It also allows you to send messages from Outlook that use your Gmail address.

Why use Gmail? Well, there are lots of other popular free email services out there, like Yahoo! Mail & Hotmail. But connecting them to Outlook for free is the rub. Some Web-based email accounts are set up so you can view them using your Web browser, but they don’t allow you to connect to them with programs like Outlook.

Yahoo allows you to connect to Outlook, but they in effect charge you a fee for the privilege. With those services, the free versions of the email account need to be upgraded to a paying version to enable the connection.

Among the vast number of free email services out there, only a small number let you connect Outlook for free. Google’s Gmail is the biggest and best-known of this elite group.

With Gmail, you get a massive amount of space (measured in Gb) of mail storage right on Google’s servers. Gmail also provides powerful search capabilities when you search your mail through the web interface (basically doing a Google search on your own email).

Google supports the Gmail service with advertising, but you only see the ads when you use your Gmail account with your web browser, not when you use Gmail with Outlook. If you haven’t yet chosen an email service, or if you are already a Gmail user, making the Gmail Outlook connection is the obvious way to go.

The directions for making the Gmail Outlook connection are relatively long, but in my experience, virtually anyone can make the connection with the help of some quality instructions.

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Yahoo Mail and Outlook

Author: Bill Mann

Do you need to get your Yahoo Mail account working with Outlook so you can handle all your email in one place? This is definitely a smart thing to do, something that will simplify your life. This article will show you how to make the Yahoo Outlook connection.

There’s one big thing that trips people up when they first try to get Yahoo Mail and Outlook working together. You can only make a Yahoo mail and Outlook connection if you have a premium Yahoo Mail account. That means, you must use either:

• A Yahoo Mail Plus account ($19.99 per year)
• A Yahoo Business Email account ($9.95 per month)

Yahoo blocks connections from their free email accounts to any mail reader besides their web-based one. Happily, it’s easy to get a Mail Plus account, or even better, to convert your existing free Yahoo account to a Mail Plus account. That allows you to keep the same email address you are already using.

Most people will want to go with the Yahoo Mail Plus account, but the process for using that or a Yahoo Business Mail account with Outlook is almost the same. In either case, there is something to be aware of before you go further.

Normally, when you set up a Yahoo Outlook connection, you will want to tell the Yahoo mail servers not to retain copies of messages on the server once Outlook downloads them. That means you won’t be able to read your mail through the Yahoo web interface anymore. That’s a definite disadvantage, but almost always the way to go.

Why? Because if you don’t do things that way, you’ll have your mail on Outlook, and have a separate copy in Yahoo which you’ll have to take care of. Two separate copies of the same message means extra work for you.

Because there are a number of steps to making this work, and the details vary depending on the version of Outlook you’re using (and the details sometimes change), you’ll want to go online to find a reliable set of instructions. Ideally, those instructions will take you through every step of the process, from converting your Yahoo account into a Mail Plus account, to the exact steps you must take for whichever version of Outlook you are using.

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Imagine how much easier your life will be when you can handle your Yahoo mail and Outlook mail in one place!

For complete instructions on making the Yahoo Outlook connection (for Outlook 2003, Outlook 2007, and Outlook 2010), including the steps for upgrading your existing Yahoo Mail account to a Yahoo Mail Plus account that will work with Outlook mail, visit: THIS PAGE.

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UPDATE: Microsoft has released Outlook Hotmail Connector 14.0.6106.5001 (I’ll explain in a minute). Follow the procedure on this page to install this version of the connector, or to upgrade from an earlier version.

IMPORTANT: If you use the Outlook Hotmail Connector to sync your Outlook calendar with your Hotmail calendar, DO NOT INSTALL THIS! There are reports that the new version of the connector breaks the synchronization with the Hotmail Calendar. For a write-up about the situation, including a link to the complete discussion in the Microsoft forums, visit: http://www.ghacks.net/2011/07/10/microsoft-outlook-connector-update-breaks-hotmail-sync/

What, you ask, is the Outlook Hotmail Connector? Seeing as both Outlook 2010 and Hotmail are Microsoft products, it would only make sense that you should be able to set up a Hotmail Outlook 2010 connection, which would use Outlook to read your Hotmail. And you can. The secret is the Outlook Hotmail Connector. This Hotmail connector is an Outlook add-in that goes far beyond a simple POP3 connection to:

• Read and Send Hotmail messages




• Manage your Hotmail contacts




• Block junk email messages




• Sync your safe and blocked lists between Hotmail & Outlook




• Manage and synchronize Windows Live Calendar (and other calendars) from Outlook




• Apply Outlook Rules to the Hotmail account, even if it isn’t your primary account




• View your Hotmail account status in the Outlook status bar

The 14.0.6106.5001 release that came out on July 7, 2011 fixes a number of stability and reliability problems. Of particular note is a switch to using the HTTPS protocol for communication between Outlook and Hotmail. That’s the same protocol that is probably used by your online banking account, and means better security for your messages.

Now about that version number…

According to Microsoft, there was some confusion among users because people (including Microsoft) referred to earlier versions of the Outlook Hotmail Connector as 14.0, 14.1, 14.2 and so on, while if you checked the version number in the software, you would find some ugly thing like 14.0.6106.5001.

To make our lives simpler, someone decided to get rid of one of the version numbers. Unfortunately, it was the human-friendly one, so from now on, we’re gonna have to deal with the 11-digit version numbers instead of the 3-digit ones.

Making the Hotmail Outlook 2010 Connection with the Outlook Hotmail Connector

Setting this up is pretty easy. The one thing to watch out for is that you need to be sure to install the correct version of the Outlook Hotmail Connector. There’s one version for the 32-bit version of Outlook 2010, and another for the 64-bit version.

How do you know whether you have the 32-bit or the 64-bit version? In Outlook, click the File tab on the ribbon, then click Help. In the right-hand pane, you will find information about your copy of Outlook. This includes a version number. At the end of the version number, in parentheses, you can see whether you have the 32-bit version or the 64-bit version.

The Procedure

With that out of the way, let’s get started installing the Outlook Hotmail Connector:

1. If you have the 32-bit version of Outlook 2010, click HERE. If you have the 64-bit version, click HERE. This takes you to the right spot in the Microsoft Download Center.





2. Click the Download button that appears on this page. The Opening OutlookConnector.exe box appears.




3. Click the Save File button. This begins the download.




4. Locate the OutlookConnector.exe file on your hard drive and double-click it to launch it.





5. Follow the instructions that appear on the screen to install the Outlook Hotmail Connector.

Downloading and installing the connector will only take a few minutes. Once you are done, you will need to restart Outlook 2010 to allow the connector to work properly.

Working with the Outlook Hotmail Connector

Once you restart Outlook, you should see a box asking if you want to add a Hotmail account to Outlook. Follow these instructions to do so:

1. Click Yes to begin.





2. In the Windows Live Hotmail Settings box that appears, fill out the appropriate information for the Hotmail account you wish to add (you must have a Hotmail account set up before you can do this step). Make sure that “Remember password” is checked if you don’t want to have to type it in every time Outlook check the account.




3. Click OK to continue setting up the account. It may take Outlook a few minutes to do this. During this time, a new folder will appear in the Navigation Pane of the Mail view. This is the folder that corresponds to your Hotmail account.

From now on, Outlook will sync with your Hotmail account. This means that changes you make to your account through your web browser (say reading a new message, or deleting a piece of junk mail) will be reflected in Outlook, and vice versa. You can test this yourself by logging into your Hotmail account using your web browser and making some change. Within a few moments the change will appear in Outlook.

Now that you have the Outlook Hotmail Connector set up, you can learn more about using Outlook with other web-based email accounts by visiting this Outlook Email Accounts page.

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This page provides the information you need to make a NetZero Outlook 2010 connection. This connection will let you work with your email in Outlook 2010, instead of the usual NetZero email interface, bringing all the power and personal information management tools of Outlook to your NetZero webmail. The procedure on this page applies to Outlook 2010, and walks you through the whole process step-by-step.

NOTE: If you are using Outlook 2007, you should follow the link at the end of this post for instructions that cover that version.

You can only make the NetZero Outlook connection if you have a premium NetZero email account. In other words, you must be using either a:

A NetZero Platinum account (low as $6.95/month)

A NetZero HiSpeed account (discounted to $9.95 per month)

If you don’t have one of these account types, you cannot connect NetZero and Outlook. But don’t worry. This is easy to fix. And the benefits of a NetZero Outlook 2010 connection make it worthwhile to do so.

Convert Your Old NetZero Account to NetZero Platinum to Enable the NetZero Outlook 2010 Connection

You are surely aware of the real benefits you’ll get from making NetZero mail and Outlook 2010 work together (or you wouldn’t be on this page), but let’s summarize them quickly.

• You save time and effort by working with all of your messages in one place.
• You can use Outlook’s mail handling tools like flags and folders and Contact Groups (Outlook 2010′s new and improved form of mailing lists) on your NetZero messages.
• You can easily use Outlook’s Calendar, Tasks, Notes and other Personal Information Management (PIM) tools on the contents of your NetZero messages.

In short, you will get some major benefits from making this connection, so let’s get it set up right now.

THIS LINK opens a new window that walks you through the upgrade process. Be sure to return to this page once you have upgraded your account so we can configure a NetZero Outlook 2010 connection to work with it.

Whichever type of account you choose, the steps needed to make the NetZero Outlook 2010 connection are almost the same. The following section walks you through the process:

NOTE: As part of the process for setting up a NetZero Outlook 2010 connection, you will tell the NetZero mail servers not to keep copies of messages on the server once you view them with Outlook. This means they will not be visible from the Web once you read them with Outlook. This is most likely the way you want things to work anyway (having multiple versions of a message floating around is a recipe for confusion), but is something to be aware of.

Configure Your NetZero Outlook 2010 Connection

We are going to set up our NetZero Outlook 2010 connection manually to be sure we get everything exactly the way we want it. The procedure is similar, but not identical to configuring earlier versions of Outlook. Please follow these steps to get Outlook configured:

1. In the Outlook main window, click the File tab on the ribbon, then Information, then Add Account. This opens the Auto Account Setup screen.
2. Set the Manually configure server settings or additional server types checkbox and click Next to go to the Choose Service screen.





3. Select Internet E-mail, then click Next to go to the Internet E-mail Settings screen.





4. Enter your name as you want it to appear in messages in the Your Name field.
5. Enter your full NetZero email address (yourid@netzero.com) in the E-mail Address field.
6. Select POP3 in the Account Type list.
7. For a Mail Plus account, enter plus.pop.mail.yahoo.com in the Incoming mail server (POP3) field and plus.smtp.mail.yahoo.com in the Outgoing mail server (SMTP) field.
8. Enter pop.netzero.com in the Incoming mail server (POP3) field and authsmtp.netzero.com in the Outgoing mail server (SMTP) field.
9. Enter your NetZero email address in the User Name field.
10. Enter your NetZero email password in the Password field.
11. Set the Remember password checkbox if you don’t want to have to enter your password manually each time Outlook checks your mail.
12. Make sure that the checkbox next to Require logon using Secure Password Authentication (SPA) is CLEARED.
13. Under the “Deliver new messages to” heading, select New Outlook Data File to store your NetZero messages in their own set of folders. The messages will appear in the Inbox just like all the rest of your Outlook mail, but won’t be stored with your other (corporate?) messages on the server.





14. Click More Settings to open the Internet E-mail Settings dialog box.
15. Click the Outgoing Server tab.





16. Clear the My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication checkbox.
17. Click the Advanced tab.





18. Set Incoming server (POP3) to 110.
19. Set Outgoing server (SMTP) to 587.
20. Make sure that the Leave a copy of messages on the server checkbox is CLEARED.
21. Make sure that the This server requires a secure connection (SSL) checkbox is CLEARED under both Incoming server (POP3) and Outgoing server (SMTP).
22. Click OK to return to the Internet E-mail Settings screen.
23. Click Test Account Settings. The Test Account Settings dialog box appears and Outlook sends a test message using the settings you have just entered. If the test was successful, a Congratulations! message appears in the dialog box. Your NetZero Outlook 2010 connection is set up properly. Click Close to close this dialog box. If you didn’t see the Congratulations! message, go back through this procedure from the top to check all your settings.
24. Click Next, then Finish.

Now you’re ready to go. You should have a functional NetZero Outlook 2010 connection, and Outlook should start downloading mail from your NetZero mail account.

From here you can:

Go to the main Outlook 2010 email accounts page.

Go to the Outlook 2010 home page.

Return to the top of this NetZero Outlook 2010 page.

Go to the instructions for making a NetZero Outlook 2007 connection.

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How to Work with Your All Accounts Group

Sometimes you will find that one of your email accounts doesn’t send and receive automatically like your other accounts do. That can happen when, for whatever reason, an account doesn’t end up being included in your All Accounts Group. The All Accounts Group is the default group in Outlook’s Send/Receive Groups.

Or you might find that none of your accounts sends or receives automatically. This could be because they aren’t included in the All Accounts Group, or because that group isn’t set up to send and receive automatically.

In other words, getting the All Accounts Group working right is the key to benefiting from Outlook’s Send/Receive Groups.

As the name implies, Send/Receive Groups are a way to group together email accounts for the purpose of sending and receiving messages. Outlook gives you lots of flexibility in how and when it checks for messages and sends messages, and the Send/Receive Groups are how the program keeps track of which accounts are supposed to do what.

Happily for us, most of the time, all we need is the default All Accounts Group, which should contain all your email accounts and should automatically send and receive on all those accounts at the same time. On this page, we’re going to talk about how you see what’s in your All Accounts Group, and how we can add new accounts to the group.

Look at Your All Accounts Group

Let’s start by looking at what’s in your All Accounts Group. To see the group, follow these steps:

1. In Outlook 2010 Mail View, click the Send/Receive tab on the ribbon. This displays the Send/Receive commands.
2. In the Send & Receive section of the ribbon, click Send/Receive Groups. This opens a menu.
3. Click the Define Send/Receive Groups option in the menu. This opens the Send/Receive Groups dialog box.


Take a good look at this dialog box. We’ll come back to the “Settings for group” section of the box in a bit. First, let’s be sure that the accounts we want to include in the All Accounts Group are actually there.

4. Select All Accounts in the Group Name box if it isn’t already selected, then click the Edit button. This opens the Send/Receive Settings dialog box for the All Accounts Group.



5. You can see that my email account is visible as a big button in the Accounts section on the left side of the dialog box. You can also see that the “Include the selected account in this group” option is not selected. Click the account button on the left, and set Include the selected account in this group option to add the account to the All Accounts Group.
6. Look at the rest of the options in this box. The exact ones you see vary with the type of email account you have selected in the Accounts section. Unless you have instructions from somewhere that tell you otherwise, leave these settings alone. If you have additional accounts you need to add to the All Account Group, do so now. When you are done, click the OK button at the bottom of the dialog box. This takes you back to the Send/Receive Groups dialog box.
7. Now take a look at the Settings for group “All Accounts” section at the bottom of the dialog box. Make sure that the “Schedule an automatic send/receive every ___ minutes” option is selected and that you are happy with the number of minutes shown here. This tells Outlook to automatically send and receive messages for every account included in the All Accounts Group. You can also adjust other settings here, but I suggest you leave everything else as is for now.
8. Click Close to return to the main Outlook 2010 window. Outlook should start automatically sending and receiving messages on all the accounts in the All Accounts Group using the time interval you specified.

You are now done adding accounts to the All Accounts Group and ensuring that messages automatically get sent and received for those accounts.

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