I have setup a Send and Receive Email account in Outlook.com to my cox.net email server. I am able to receive mail, but can not send mail through their smtp server. Settings: * smtp.cox.net * port 587. Having trouble setting up my outlook.com email as an IMAP account in Mac Mail for OS X Mavericks. Have tried the solutions on google, but could use some help pls. Have been able to get it to work for in-coming mail, but not for out-going mail.

How do I use Hotmail or Outlook.com with my desktop email program? It wants something about. What should I put in? With the proliferation of devices running their own email programs, settings for POP3, SMTP, and now more frequently are a popular request for the various email services. For a long time, Microsoft didn’t provide the ability to connect to a desktop email program, but they added it to Hotmail a few years ago. With the transition to Outlook.com as Hotmail’s replacement, that functionality remains.

Become a and go ad-free! Email programs Various desktop and mobile email programs will ask for this information in a variety of ways and in different places. Typically, when you set up an email program, you will configure one or more email accounts. An account includes: • Your email address • Your account user name (sometimes, this is the same as or derived from your email address) • Your account password As you enter this information, your email program may also ask about the protocols that it will use to communicate to the servers of your email service provider. That’s what we’ll go over in Hotmail/Outlook.com with this article. SMTP SMTP is used to send mail. The SMTP configuration parameters for Outlook.com are: • Server: -mail.outlook.com •: 25 (or 587 if 25 is blocked) • Authentication: Yes • Encrypted Connection: • User name: Your email address • Password: Your password Configured as described above, you should be able to send email from your desktop email program via Outlook.com.

POP3 Your email program uses the POP3 to download email from your email service provider’s server. The POP3 configuration parameters for Outlook.com are: • Server: -mail.outlook.com • Port: 995 • Encrypted Connection: • User name: Your email address • Password: Your password Note that you need to enable POP3 access in Outlook.com. Click the gear icon in the upper right and then click More mail settings. Under Managing your account, click Connect devices and apps with: Under POP, select Enable, and then click Save.

You’ll note that you also have the option to force delete requests to be ignored. This is more-or-less the equivalent of the “Leave messages on server” option that many desktop email programs have. If you choose the “Don’t let devices or apps delete messages” option, then they’ll remain accessible via the Outlook.com web interface until you delete them there. IMAP Your email program uses the IMAP protocol to copy or mirror email stored on an email server to your desktop or device. The IMAP configuration parameters for Outlook.com are: • Server: -mail.outlook.com • Port: 993 • Encrypted Connection: SSL • User name: Your email address • Password: Your password IMAP is perhaps the most convenient way to access email across multiple computers and devices as it keeps them all in sync. How to work the outlook app for mac.