Connecting Outlook to Your BGA Student Email Account

To use Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 to send & receive mail from your BGA email account, please follow these directions:

Close Outlook 2007 if it's open.

In Control Panel, click Mail.
In Windows XP

Click Start > Control Panel > User Accounts > Mail. (In Classic view, double-click Mail.)

In the Mail Setup dialog box, click Show Profiles > Add.

Type a name for the profile, such as "BGA" and then click OK.

When the Add New E-Mail Account dialog box opens, enter your name, e-mail address, and password in the appropriate fields, and then click Next.

Outlook 2007 will display a message that asks you to allow a Web site to automatically set up your account. The program runs auto-setup periodically. If you don't want to see this message every time auto-setup runs, select Don't ask me about this website again, and then click Allow.

Outlook 2007 will automatically set up the account. You'll be asked for your user name and password before Outlook 2007 can connect to your account. Make sure you enter your full e-mail address (for example, sallyjones12@students.battlegroundacademy.org) as your user name. You may be prompted to enter your user name and password several times before you connect.

That's it, you are done!


What else do I need to know?

Before you can connect to your e-mail for the first time with Outlook 2007, you need to complete your account registration with Windows Live. To do this, sign in to your account by browsing to https://outlook.com, click Sign in, and then enter your user name and password to access your e-mail account. When your Windows Live account registration is complete, sign out.





 

 

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