Step-By-Step Guidelines to Bellsouth Email settings

Becky Hallman
3 min readApr 17, 2020

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BellsouthEmailSettings

When AT&T Inc. had to deal with BellSouth on December 29, 2006 after merging then together, the AT&T name was preserved. If you have created an email account on Bellsouth for your business, you can still use it to send and receive emails and other than this if you detect any issue then go to Bellsouth Email settings to get rid of that. For performing such actions You can log in to your BellSouth account from any Web browser if you know the ID and password combination.

1. First, you have to navigate to the AT&T email service on Yahoo using any Web browser.

2. After this, click the “Check Mail” link to navigate to the AT&T Login page.

3. After checking, Type your BellSouth email address into the “Email” field and the password into the “Password” field, and select “Sign In” to log in to your BellSouth email account.

After log in you can go to the Bellsouth Email Settings to update your information.

  • Other than this there is one more way that you can also log in to your BellSouth account directly from AT&T, and most importantly don’t forget to select “bellsouth.net” from the drop-down box next to Username.
  • There is one thing to note that If you are adding the BellSouth email account as the incoming server to an email client, use “pop.att.yahoo.com”, and selecting port 995 as the incoming mail port then enable both incoming and outgoing mail server SSL options,, set “smtp.att.yahoo.com” as the outgoing mail server and select 465 as the outgoing mail port. Your username is the BellSouth email address and you can change it in Bellsouth Email Settings.

Bellsouth.net email settings for Outlook

In this part we will discuss setting up a Hotmail account on Outlook is as simple as possible. It doesn’t need any manual configuring of the incoming and outgoing servers. You just enter your Email ID and Password and sink emails.

Although, if you have even elementary knowledge about this, the procedure is rather simplistic.

And obviously, we made sure to explain it in detail. Here’s how to add Bellsouth.net email in Outlook on Windows 10:

  1. First Open the Outlook client.
  2. Then Click on File > Add account.
  3. Choose “Manual configure server settings or additional server types” and click Next.
  4. After Manually Configure Click Yes on the next window.
  5. Enter your Bellsouth.net email address and name. And you have to choose IMAP and POP. Click Next.
  6. For the Incoming Mail Server, enter ‘imap.mail.att.net‘.
  7. And Bellsouth Email for the Outgoing Mail Server, enter ‘smtp.mail.att.net‘.
  8. Enter your email address and password when prompted.
  9. Now you have to choose More settings and check both “My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication” and “Use the same settings as my incoming mail server” boxes.
  10. Open the Advanced tab and make sure that the Incoming Server port number for POP3 is 995. The Outgoing Server port should be 465.
  11. Enable SSL under the “Use the following type of encrypted connection” section.
  12. Click Finish and that should do it.

These are the steps of Bellsouth Email settings in Outlook Windows 10.

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