How to set up your mail in Microsoft Outlook

Follow the steps below to set up your Afrihost-hosted email address in Microsoft Outlook.

Open Outlook.
At the top of your window, click on ‘File’.
On the left hand side click on the Account Settings dropdown and select Account Settings.
Click on ‘New’ in the Account Settings window.
Select Manual setup or additional server types and click ‘Next’.
Select ‘Pop or IMAP’ and click ‘Next’.

Enter your name and the email address you wish to set up under User Information.
Select your preferred Account Type - either POP3 or IMAP.
Enter your incoming mail server. This will always be mail.yourdomainname.co.za
The outgoing mail server will be exactly the same as your incoming mail server.
The username should be your full email address.
Enter your password and ensure that the remember password box is ticked.
Now click on ‘More Settings’.
Click on the ‘Outgoing Server’ tab and make sure the ‘My outgoing server requires authentication’ box is ticked.
Now click on the Advanced tab and make sure that the incoming server port is set to 143 and the outgoing server port is set to 587.
Once done, click on ‘OK’ and then on ‘Next’.
Outlook will now test your settings. Once the test is complete, click on ‘Close’ and then ‘Finish’ to start using your mail.

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