This article will walk you through setting up Outlook 2003 with a POP3 email account.

First, you’ll want to open up Outlook 2003, then select Tools | Email Accounts, like so:

On the Server Type page, make sure to choose “POP3” as the server type:

On Internet Email settings, enter in the following information (replacing “example.com” with your domain name):

Now we need to setup outgoing email. To do this, click on the “More Settings” button, where you’ll be presented with the following screen:

Click on the “Outgoing Server” tab, and check the box that says “My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication)”. Use the default radio button box of “Use same settings as my incoming mail server”:

Almost done. Now we want to change the port that the outgoing mail goes out on. We want to do this for two reasons: the first is to prevent your outgoing mail from being scanned by the Ideanode mailserver for viruses and spam. The second is that many Internet Service Providers block you from sending mail to port 25 on mailservers that aren’t theirs—they do this in an attempt to stop spammers that directly connect to other people’s mail servers direct and inject spam. Change the “Outgoing server (SMTP):” port to 587, from the default 25:

Click “OK,” and now we’re back to the Email Accounts page. Click “Next>”.

Click “Finish.” We’re done!