All About Configuring Bellsouth Email Account with Outlook

It is wise of you to have more than one email account; But isn’t it difficult for you to manage them all at once? That’s why we decided on a setup where you can merge your email accounts to access all your emails in one place; without moving back and forth unnecessarily. Outlook is an email client that allows you to set up other email accounts. So here I am to talk about setting up Bellsouth email in Outlook.

To make things clearer for you, I’ve written out the entire process of setting up Bellsouth email in Outlook, so keep reading to get things done easily.

Bellsouth Email: A Brief Introduction

Bellsouth is a popular email service managed and operated by AT&T since 2006. A well-known American company, Bellsouth is known for serving over 18 countries for over a decade. Since Bellsouth became part of AT&T, you have been allowed to log into your Bellsouth email account through the AT&T login page.

Bellsouth Email Setup with Outlook

When it comes to setting up Bellsouth email with Outlook, you need to go through a series of steps and enter the correct bellsouth.net settings for Outlook. So let’s take a look at the setup process:

  1. Open the Outlook application on your laptop or PC and click on the ‘File’ menu located at the top left corner.

Open Outlook and click on the 'File' menu

  1. Click “Add Account”

Click on the 'Add Account' option

  1. A new ‘Add account’ window will open where you need to select the ‘Manual setup or additional server types’ option and click ‘Next’.
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  1. Select the ‘POP or IMAP’ option and click ‘Next’ to continue.

Select the 'POP or IMAP' option and click 'Next'

  1. Now enter the following information:

user information

  • Your name: Your name
  • Email Address: Your Bellsouth email address
  • server information
  • Account type: POP3
  • Incoming mail server: pop.mail.att.net
  • Outgoing mail server (SMTP): smtp.mail.att.net

Information Enter

  • Username: Your username
  • Password: Your password

After filling in the data, click on ‘More settings’

Fill in all the User Information, Server Information, and Login Information sections and click 'More Settings'

Note: bellsouth.net email settings for most versions of Outlook such as 2016, 2019, 2013 are the same.

  1. In the ‘Outgoing server’ tab, select ‘My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication’ and make sure ‘Use the same settings as my incoming mail server’ is selected; press OK’.

In the 'Outgoing' tab, select the 'My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication' and 'Use the same settings as my incoming mail server' options and press 'OK'.

  1. In the ‘Advanced’ tab enter ‘995’ for incoming server (POP3) and for outgoing server (SMTP) enter ‘465’; also select ‘SSL’ for ‘Use the following type of encrypted connection’ and press ‘OK’.

  1. That was all about how to set up bellsouth.net email for Outlook using the correct settings. Be sure to use the correct bellsouth.net server settings or you may have trouble logging into your Bellsouth email account.

Note: If your bellsouth.net email account doesn’t work with Outlook or you’re having trouble signing in, you can try resetting your Bellsouth email account password.

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