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You can use Outlook to read and send mail from Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail, and other email accounts. If you want to manually add another email account to Outlook, you may need to use advanced setup. See Add an email account to Outlook.
You'll need your email provider's incoming server settings (POP or IMAP) and outgoing server settings (SMTP). Here's a list of those settings for several email providers. If you don't see yours listed here, ask your email provider to give them to you.
Email Provider |
IMAP Settings |
POP Settings |
SMTP Settings |
Microsoft 365 Outlook Hotmail Live.com |
Server: outlook.office365.com Port: 993 Encryption: SSL/TLS |
Server: outlook.office365.com Port: 995 Encryption: SSL/TLS |
Server: smtp.office365.com Port: 587 Encryption: STARTTLS |
MSN |
Server: imap-mail.outlook.com Port: 993 Encryption: SSL/TLS |
Server: pop-mail.outlook.com Port: 995 Encryption: SSL/TLS |
Server: smtp-mail.outlook.com Port: 587 Encryption: STARTTLS |
See also
POP, IMAP, and SMTP for Outlook.com
Add your other email accounts to Outlook.com
Connect email accounts in Outlook on the web (Microsoft 365)
You can also get support from other Outlook.com users in our Community forum, or get help by selecting Contact Support below:
Note: You will need to sign in first to get support. If you can't sign in, go to Account support.