How To Configure Bellsouth Email Settings?
Bellsouth is an email service that provides access to its email accounts using both IMAP and POP so that a Bellsouth email account can be accessed from any third-party email client or mobile phone apps. While accessing the Bellsouth webmail might be easier, which requires just the email address and password, setting up the email account on an email client is not more straightforward, as in other email services like Gmail or Yahoo. To set up a Bellsouth email account on an email client, you have to configure the server settings manually.
The Bellsouth email settings for the incoming (IMAP & POP3) and outgoing mail servers are mentioned here:
Incoming Server- Imap
Bellsouth.net (AT&T) IMAP Server: imap.mail.att.net
| IMAP port: | 993 |
| IMAP security: | SSL / TLS encryption |
| IMAP username: | Your full Bellsouth email address |
| IMAP password: | Your Bellsouth email account password |
Incoming Server- Pop3
Bellsouth.net (AT&T) POP3 Server: inbound.att.net
| IMAP port: | 995 |
| POP3 security: | SSL / TLS encryption |
| POP3 username: | Your full bellsouth email address |
| POP3 password: | Your Bellsouth email account password |
Outgoing Server- Smtp
Bellsouth.net (AT&T) SMTP Server smtp.mail.att.net
| SMTP port: | 465 or 587 |
| SMTP security: | SSL / TLS encryption |
| SMTP username: | Your full email bellsouth email address |
| SMTP password: | Your Bellsouth.net password |
The above incoming server and the outgoing server are the settings for the Bellsouth email account.
Adding a Bellsouth (IMAP) account to Outlook 2016:
- Step : 1 Let us look into the steps to add a Bellsouth IMAP email account in the Outlook 2016 email client.
- Step : 2 Launch the Outlook 2016 email client on your computer.
- Step : 3 Click the File > Add Account > Manual setup or additional server types > Pop or IMAP.
- Step : 4 Provide your name, email address, and password in the required fields.
- Step : 5 In the Account Type field, select IMAP and in the Incoming mail server field enter imap.mail.att.net.
- Step : 6 In the Outgoing mail server text field, enter smtp.mail.att.net.
- Step : 7 Now, click the More Settings button and in the new window, under Outgoing Server info, enable the checkboxes beside the My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication option and Use same settings as my incoming mail server option.
- Step : 8 Switch to the Advanced tab in the same window and enter the incoming and outgoing server ports as 993 and 587, respectively. Also, choose SSL as the encrypted connection option.
- Step : 9 Click OK > Next > Finish. This will set up your Bellsouth email account in Outlook 2016.
- Step : 10 By using these steps we can execute that Bellsouth email settings.
