How to Add Another Email Account to Outlook.com

If you use Outlook.com as your primary email, then you can link your other email accounts to it as well. This way you can view and send emails from the other email accounts within Outlook.com. Just connect your different email accounts to Outlook.com. Here’s how:



Adding a Gmail account to Outlook.com

Here’s how you can connect your Google account to your Outlook.com account:
1.       Visit Outlook.com and log in.
2.       Click on the Gear icon to open Settings.
3.       Select View all Outlook settings from the list.
4.       Click on Sync email.
5.       Scroll down to Connected accounts.
6.       Click on Gmail.
7.       In the following screen, enter the display name for the Gmail.
8.       Click on OK.
9.       Choose your Google account.
10.   Enter your username and password for the Google account.
11.   Click on Allow.

Adding other email accounts to Outlook.com

You can add other email accounts such as Yahoo and AOL to Outlook.com as well. Here’s how:

1.       Go to Outlook.com.
2.       Click on the gear icon to open the Settings menu.
3.       Select View all Outlook settings from the menu.
4.       Click on the option called Sync email.
5.       Navigate to the Connected account section.
6.       Click on Other email accounts.
7.       In the following window, type your display name. This is the name that the people will see when you send them an email.
8.       Now, type the email address of the account you wish to link to your Outlook.com account.
9.       Enter the password for the same.
10.   In case you have enabled multi-factor authentication for your linked account, then generate an app password for the same.
11.   Click on the OK button.

Sending email messages from connected accounts

It is very easy to send emails from the connected accounts on Outlook.com. Here’s how:

1.       Open the Outlook mail.
2.       Create a new message.
3.       Type the message and attach the file/s, if any.
4.       Click on the From option.
5.       From the drop-down menu, select the email address you wish to use. (All the email addresses of the connected accounts will be listed).

In order to alter the default From email address, follow the steps given below:

1.       Go to Outlook.com.
2.       Click on the gear icon.
3.       Select the option called View all Outlook settings.
4.       Now, choose Sync email.
5.       Go to the Set default From address section.
6.       Pick the email address you wish to set as default.
7.       Click on the Save button.

Mathew Anderson is a self-professed security expert; he has been making the people aware of the security threats. His passion is to write about Cyber security, cryptography, malware, social engineering, internet and new media. He writes for Norton security products at norton.com/setup.

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