This article is for setting up email in older versions of Microsoft Outlook
Automatic Setup
Microsoft Outlook 2007 can automatically detect this email account’s settings.
- Choose to set up a new email account in “Microsoft Outlook 2007”.
- When prompted for the email address, enter your full email address
- Use your email account password as the password.
If the auto-configuration fails, please set up the account using the manual settings by going to Tools > Account Settings
Manual Setup
- Click on the Email tab and click on the New… button.
- Tick the Manually configure server settings or additional server types and click Next.
- Select Internet E-mail option and click Next.
- Fill in the following fields: Enter Your Name as you want it to appear. Enter your full email address i.e. test@presshost.net.au (note, this is not an active address) in the Email address: field.
- Select IMAP as the account type
- Your incoming and outgoing mail server will be mail.yourdomainname.domain (for example mail.presshost.net.au)
- Enter your full email address in the Account name field.
- Enter your email password in the Password field.
- Click on More Settings
- In the Outgoing Server tab, make sure ‘My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication is ticked
- By default, Use same settings as my incoming mail server should already be set
- In the Advanced tab, set the ports and encryption to the following –
- Incoming IMAP port 993 using SSL encryption
- Outgoing SMTP port 465 (or port 26) using TLS encryption
- Click OK to return to the email and password settings window
- Click the Test Account Settings button and you should see all items with green check marks.
- Click the Close Button to close the test window.
- Click OK to save your settings.