Just like POP3 and IMAP accounts, you can use the e-mail accounts wizard to set up your HTTP account. Follow these steps:

 

-       Click on the Tools menu and click E-mail Accounts.

-       Click Add a new e-mail account. Click Next.

-       Click HTTP and click Next.

 

You’ll see this screen:

 

 

HTTP accounts are the easiest to set up. Just enter your name, your e-mail address, and your password. Outlook will choose your HTTP mail service provider for you (either Hotmail or MSN). If your HTTP provider happens to be something other than those two companies, you can choose Other from the drop-down menu on the left, and type in your server name in the text box below.

 

You can also specify advanced settings by clicking the More Settings button. (This button is only available when you’ve already filled out the basic information.)

 

You can see what the More Settings box looks like by looking at the figure below. You can see that there aren’t many options to configure.

 

On the first tab (General), you can specify a friendly name for your e-mail account. This will be the name for your mailbox in the navigation pane, and it’s also how your account will appear in the e-mail accounts window. Also in the General tab, you can type in your organization and the e-mail address you want replies sent to.

 

The Connection tab looks exactly as it did when we set up other account types; we can tell Outlook whether we’re using a local area network, a phone connection (which we’ll need to configure), or another type of dialler.

 

Similar to other windows, we can click OK to save our changes, or cancel to discard them. Once we’ve clicked either button, we’ll go back to the main HTTP screen. Here, we can click Next and Finish to save our e-mail account settings. Then, it will be set up in Outlook!