Outlook 2010

Get All Your Email in Outlook 2010

If you regularly use Outlook 2010, then shouldn’t you be getting all your mail from all your accounts there? I’m a big fan of doing this. When you get all your email in Outlook 2010, you save the time and effort you would otherwise spend checking all the different locations where your mail appears.

I don’t know about you, but I’m busy, and don’t want to waste time with that. Besides, getting all your messages in one place eliminates the problem of forgetting to check one of your accounts and missing an important message.

Pulling this together is easy because Outlook 2010 supports all the popular email protocols. That means it works with virtually any email account. That is, it works unless access is blocked by the company (normally an Internet Service Provider) that provides the email account.

Companies have varying policies about the use of outside email programs to read their mail. Some (a diminishing number) let anyone connect to their system for free. Others limit who can connect, and/or require you to pay a small monthly or yearly fee to get access to your account with Outlook or any other mail program.

Of course, the ideal is a free connection that you can access with with Outlook. But depending on your situation, even paying a fee to get access can still be a bargain.

Here’s a good example: I have had an email account with Yahoo for many years. That account is the one that all my business contacts use. But for years I have also depended on each new version of Outlook to help me keep my business running smoothly.

So for me, it is clearly worthwhile to pay Yahoo their fee (a Mail Plus account is only $19.95 a year) to be able to get my Yahoo mail right into my Outlook 2010 Inbox.

Making Outlook 2010 Connections

On this page, I’ve included links to detailed instructions for getting various types of email accounts connected to Outlook 2010. When you make these connections, your email messages will appear in either the Outlook 2010 Inbox, or in their own set of folders within Outlook.

In either case, once you set up the connection, you’ll be able to work with all your email in one central location, using all the power tools that are part of Outlook 2010. You can even tell Outlook 2010 to open a different folder than the default Inbox if, for example, Gmail is your main email account and you want Outlook 2010 to first display the contents of your Gmail Inbox rather than the Outlook Inbox.

Outlook 2010 Connections to Various Email Accounts

The links below will take you to the appropriate section of IWantMyEmail or our sister site ( Living-With-Outlook-2010.com ) where you will always find our most current instructions for configuring email accounts to work with Outlook 2010.

When you are done setting up an account over there, don’t forget to come back here and continue setting up the rest of your email accounts.

TIP: Once you are done setting up all your email accounts, I suggest you explore a bit over there, as the site has tons of useful information for Outlook users. A good place to start is HERE