How To Configure MSN Email With Outlook Email

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When you think of using your MSN email with Outlook email client application, this requires users to learn and understand the way to configure it. Configuring your MSN Mail account with Outlook, needs users to get the complete email address of the MSN account, its password, and server settings. Once you are done with these things; you can configure it easily.

What you need to configure your MSN account with Outlook

  • MSN email address
  • MSN account password
  • IMAP or POP settings

MSN users have basic information with them; the rest is the server settings which we are sharing here. There are two sorts of server settings are available for your MSN email account.

  • IMAP server settings
  • POP server settings

Users can select any of these sever settings and get it configured with their MSN account. This is easy as you don’t need to make many efforts. Here, once you decide to opt for any of these the available settings, then you have to go to the Outlook application. You need to install it, if you don’t have it on your computer and then go for the configuration by adding the MSN account on it.

IMAP mail account settings

Incoming (IMAP) Server

  • Server address: imap-mail.outlook.com
  • Port: 993
  • Encrypted Connection: SSL

Outgoing (SMTP) Server

  • Server address: smtp-mail.outlook.com
  • Port: 25 (or 587 if 25 is blocked)
  • Authentication: Yes
  • Encrypted Connection: TLS

POP mail account settings

Incoming (POP3) Server

  • Server address: pop-mail.outlook.com
  • Port: 995
  • Encrypted Connection: SSL

Outgoing (SMTP) Server

  • Server address: smtp-mail.outlook.com
  • Port: 25 (or 587 if 25 is blocked)
  • Authentication: Yes
  • Encrypted Connection: TLS

Once you are done with the configuration part, you can test it by sending a test mail to your own account. This is needed to verify the configuration and to check whether the mail account is working perfectly on not.

For further queries, dial MSN customer support toll-free phone number.

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