WHAT ARE THE CORRECT BELLSOUTH EMAIL SETTINGS FOR OUTLOOK?

BellSouth LLC developed BellSouth email services; it is an American Telecommunications company, formerly known as BellSouth Corporation. BellSouth LLC launched this email service to ease the emailing experience for its users. Later in 2005, AT&T comprised BellSouth after the US Department of Justice forced the American Telephone & Telegraph Company to divest itself to its regional telephone companies. Since then, BellSouth and AT&T have been sharing the platform and generating significant popularity amongst the users. This email service is commendable as it offers various features like an automatic reply, automatic forward, redirection option, multiple recipients to one mail, and many more. This email service can be configured in your Outlook account by making just the correct BellSouth email settings. You will learn the process of setting up BellSouth on Outlook in this blog.

BELLSOUTH EMAIL CONFIGURATION ON OUTLOOK

To configure your BellSouth email on Outlook, you need to tweak the email settings and fix the BellSouth email server settings as mentioned in this blog. First, you must configure your BellSouth account on Outlook by following the steps mentioned below.

• Open the browser on your computer or laptop; you can use any browser like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge, etc.
• Type Outlook.com in the Browser’s URL to launch the Outlook webpage
• When your Outlook account opens, click on Settings and then click on the File option
• Now from the list of File option, click on the Account Setting to open all your Account’s settings
• When your Account’s settings open, click on the Email account to update to add your BellSouth account to Outlook
• When you reach this step, you will need to look for and click on the Internet Email Setting option to make the necessary changes in the BellSouth email server settings.
• Here, choose either one of POP3 or IMAP options when Outlook asks to choose one
• Please enter your username and password where it is required
• Make the necessary changes in the server settings as mentioned later in this blog
• After you have made the changes, click on the OK
• A new pop-up window should open asking about your password and email address; please ensure typing the correct ones and click on Next
• You can click on Finish to end the process after you finish making all changes

Now to complete these BellSouth email settings, we must move on to the server settings. You can find them below.

BELLSOUTH SERVER SETTINGS

Please note that below are the correct server settings. You will also find BellSouth POP settings below, so ensure following the steps carefully.

POP SERVER SETTINGS

• Enter ‘att.net’ in the incoming call server column
• Set the Port to be 955
• Choose SSL for Use the ‘The Following Type Of Encrypted Connection’
• Enter att.net in the Outgoing mail server
• The SMTP for Outgoing Mail Server is 465
• Choose SSL for Use the Following Type of Encrypted Connection

With this, your BellSouth POP settings are complete. Please follow the next set of steps if you have chosen IMAP instead of POP.

IMAP SERVER SETTINGS

• Likewise, enter Att.net in the incoming call server column
• Set the port at 993
• Choose SSL for Use the Following Type of Encrypted Connection
• In the Outgoing mail server option, choose att.net
• The SMTP for Outgoing Server should be either 465 or 587
• Lastly, select SSL for the Use the following type of Encrypted Connection option

With this, you will fix your entire BellSouth email settings. You can easily use BellSouth on your Outlook account now.

BELLSOUTH EMAIL CONFIGURATION ON GMAIL

You can configure BellSouth email on other email domains such as Gmail using your Android device or iPhone. It is a simple procedure and only demands proper email server settings.

• Open your browser and type Gmail.com to go to Gmail’s sign-in page
• Insert your correct credentials and login into your Account if you aren’t already logged in
• Click on the gear icon at the top-right corner of the screen and select settings
• You will see a horizontal list of options under Settings; click on Accounts and then click on Add a mail account
• Insert your BellSouth email ID address and click on Next to proceed
• The following step is to select the Import emails from my Account (POP3) option and click on the Next
• Now two columns will open asking for your username and password; kindly enter both to proceed
• Now make the following changes in the BellSouth email server settings:

– Enter inbound.att.net in the POP Server field

– Select 995 in the Port column

– Check the Always use a secure connection (SSL) option

– Click on the Add Account button and check the No option on the screen

– Finally, click on Finish to complete

Now you can configure your BellSouth account in Gmail or Outlook at your convenience. Using the instructions mentioned above, you can use the BellSouth email service to your advantage and utilize it properly. You can find more information in our other blog, where we provide solutions to your IT problems. You can visit these blogs if you require more assistance.

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