You can easily activate your POP3 email account in Outlook 2016.
- Step 1:Open your GMX email account and click the E-mail tab.
- Step 2:Go to Settings and select POP3 & IMAP.
- Step 3:Checkmark the Send and receive emails via external program box.
- Step 4:Click on the Save button to confirm the settings you have made.
- Step 5:Open the Outlook application and click the File menu.
- Step 6:Click the Info tab and select the Add account option.
- Step 7:Now, the Outlook-Assistant to set up a new email account will open.
- Step 8:Type the email address to configure your email account.
- Step 9:Go to Advanced options and checkmark the Let me set up my account manually box.
- Step 10:Click on the Connect button and select POP as the account type.
- Step 11:When the POP Account Settings dialog box appears, enter the GMX POP3 settings as mentioned in the following steps.
- Step 13:Type the port number as 995.
- Step 14:Now, select the This server requires an encrypted connection (SSL/TLS) box.
- Step 15:Go to the Outgoing mail section and enter the mail server address as mail.gmx.com.
- Step 16:Enter the outgoing server port number as 587. Choose the encryption method as STARTTLS (recommended).
- Step 17:Now, click on the Connect button.
- Step 18:When the login dialog box opens up, enter the email address and password of your account.
- Step 19:Checkmark the Save the password in your password list box and click on the OK button.
