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It is always good to have one tool for checking all your email accounts such Yahoo, Hotmail and GMail. Microsoft Outlook 2007 provides these options and it is very easy to configure these accounts.

Follow the steps below to configure email accounts of your choice using MS Outlook 2007 settings.

1. Click Tools menu followed by Options

2. The following options dialog box should appear.

3. Click on the mail setup followed by E-mail Accounts button. This should display option for creating or setting up a new E-mail account.

4. Click on the Add new email account option which displays the following dialog box.

5. On Clicking next the following screen should appear where one should enter the details of their email account.

Most of the time the above steps are sufficient to Configure Hotmail, Yahoo and GMail in MS Outlook 2007. And incase if you do need to configure manually server settings or additional server types for Hotmail, Yahoo and GMail then the followings information might be useful.

Configure Hotmail Settings

Configure Yahoo Settings

Yahoo More Settings

Configure GMail Settings

GMail More Settings

There are times when your office mailbox size needs to be less than specified limit as per company’s policy and all employees have to adhere to that. So if you want to determine the folder size of your mailbox or inbox then you can do the following.

Right click the folder for which the size the needs to be determined.

For example in the above snapshot, if  you want to know the folder size inbox then select inbox on right click the folder and select properties from the menu.

The above folder property dialog box would be displayed and on clicking Folder Size button the following dialog box appears displaying the folder(s) size.

This way you can make sure and check regularly that you do not exceed the specified mailbox size.