Manual Mail Setting

This tutorial will teach you step by step how to setup outlook with your email accounts.

Procedure:

  • Open Outlook. In Menu bar, follow Tools -> Account Settings.
  • On the E-mail tab, click New(To add a new account) or double click on the existing account to edit account.
  • Select "Manually configure server settings or additional server types" and click Next.
  • Select "Internet E-mail" and click Next.
  • Enter the following information for E-mail Accounts.
  1. Your Name: Account Holders name
  2. Email Address: Your email address
  3. Account Type: IMAP (try POP3 only if you do not wish our server to backup your mails)
  4. Incoming mail server: ? mail.domain-name.com*
  5. Outgoing mail server (SMTP): ? mail.domain-name.com*
  6. Username: Enter your full e-mail address
  7. Password: If you wish for Outlook to save your password, check the box labeled remember Password and enter your password in the text field.
  • Click "More Settings".
  • Click on the "Outgoing Server" tab, and check the box labeled "My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication". Then choose to "Use same settings as my incoming mail server".
  • Click on the Advanced tab.
  1. Under Incoming Server (IMAP), the port number should be set to 143. (for POP3 the port number is 110) 
  2. Use the following type of encrypted connection: None
  3. Under Outgoing Server (SMTP), the port number should be set to 587(If you are having issues change it to 25)
  4. Use the following type of encrypted connection: None
  • Click OK
  • Click Next. Click Finish.

 

* here, domain-name.com should be replaced with your domain name

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