Follow the steps below to set up your Afrihost-hosted email address in Microsoft Outlook 2016 / 365.

Open account settings in Outlook

• Open Outlook.
  
• At the top of your window, click on ‘File’.
  
• Select ‘Add Account’.
• Then select ‘Account Settings’.

Enter your mail details

• A Welcome to outlook box will appear, enter your email address.
  
• Select Advanced options, then select ‘Let me set up my account manually’.
  
• Click ‘Connect’.
• Choose an account type – select IMAP (or POP)
• Enter your Server Settings:


Incoming mail:

Server: Enter mail. before your domain name. eg: mail.domainname.co.za
Port: 993 (or 110 for POP)
Encryption method: SSL
Require logon using Secure Password Authentication (SPA) is unticked.

Outgoing mail:

Server: Enter  smtp. before your domain name or mail.domainname.co.za
Port: 465 
Encryption method: SSL
Require logon using Secure Password Authentication (SPA) is unticked.

• Click ‘Connect’
• Enter the password and tick save this password the Click ‘OK
• Account Setup is complete
• Click ‘OK