Configuration Part 1: Startup Wizard

Your first invocation of Outlook 2010 will cause the Startup wizard to run. The wizard already knows your name and makes an educated guess at your e-mail address. Frustratingly, later on it seems to lose track of them.

• Configure E-mail account? Respond Yes, click Next
  • Select Internet E-mail radio button, click Next
    • Fill in your Name and E-mail Address one more time
    • Account Type: IMAP
    • Incoming mail server: helix.nih.gov
    • Outgoing mail server: mailfwd.nih.gov
    • Uncheck the "Remember password" checkbox
    • Click the More Settings button, select the Advanced tab
      • Incoming server (IMAP): Use the following type of encrypted connection: SSL
        (port number changes from 143 to 993)
      • Server Timeouts: Drag pointer to 2m instead of 1
      • Click OK button
  • Uncheck Test Account Settings by clicking the Next button checkbox
  • Click Test Account Settings button
    A message should arrive in your Helix Inbox; no need to read it at this time
  • Click Next button
• Click Finish button

Configuration Part 2: In Outlook Proper

Select Outlook's File tab

• Click Options in the left panel
  • Select Mail in the left panel
    • Under Compose messages
      • Compose messages in this format: Plain Text (recommended)
    • Under Conversation Cleanup
      • Check the Don't move unread messages checkbox
    • Under Message format
      • Uncheck Use Cascading style Sheets (CSS) checkbox
      • Automatically wrap text at character: 72
  • Select Advanced in the left panel
    • Other
      • Uncheck the Allow analysis of sent e-mails ... checkbox
    • If you correspond only in English, navigate to International options
      • Check the two checkboxes that start with Use English
      • Select Western European (ISO) as the Preferred encoding for outgoing messages
  • Click the OK button to resume your mail session