Certainly, an email account is essential to communicate in a secure and faster way on the way. If you have sought the AT&T service, you wouldn’t mind configuring your AT&T internet service that can have up to 10 email accounts.
In this article, we will furnish information about configuring AT&T email settings on Outlook and iPhone.
Set up Outlook for AT&T Email
- Go to Outlook, select File> Add Account
- Here, look for “Manual setup or additional server types”
- Select IMAP or POP
- Enter your name (that you want to display to others)
- Enter your complete AT&T email address
- Now you need to complete the server information:
- Account Type – Select POP3 or IMAP
- Incoming Mail Server – att.net (POP3) or Enter imap.mail.att.net (IMAP)
- Outgoing mail server – att.net (POP3) or Enter imap.mail.att.net (IMAP)
- Next, you need to complete the login information:
- Username: Email address
- Password: Provide your secure mail key
- Click Remember Password and Require logon using secure password authentication
- Click the “More Settings” option
- Provide Outgoing Server Information:
- Click the “Check My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication”
- Check Use same settings as my incoming mail server
- Provide Advanced Information:
- For Incoming Server – Enter 995 (POP3) or 993 (IMAP)
- Choose SSL
- For Outgoing Server, you need to enter 465 (IMAP and POP3)
- Choose SSL
- Click the “OK” option and then
- It is now up to Outlook to verify your account information
- Select “Finish” if Outlook says the given info is okay.
Set up iPhone for AT&T Email
- Go to the “Settings” on your Apple device
- Choose Mail, Contacts, and Calendars
- Click the “Add Account” option and choose Other
- Here, you must “Add Mail Account” and provide the following info:
- Name: Your name
- Email: AT&T email address
- Password: AT&T email password
- Description: Enter AT&T
- Under “Incoming Mail Server”, choose IMAP and provide the following info:
- Hostname:mai.att.net
- Username: email
- Password: email password
- Under “outgoing mail server”, provide the following info:
- Hostname:mail.att.net
- Username: email
- Password: email password
- Click the “Save” option and choose your given email address
- Select SMTP under Outgoing Mail Server
- Select mailatt.net under Mail Server and find the following info on the screen:
- SSL: SSL
- Serverport: 465
- You are done with this. Go to the previous screen once again and select the “Advanced” option to ensure the following info is on the screen:
- SSL: SSL
- Serverport: imap.mai.att.net
Go to the previous screen once again, finish your setup by restarting your iPhone.