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Setting up email in Outlook

Follow these steps to manually configure your email account in Outlook:

  1. Open Outlook, go to the File menu (top left).
  2. Click Add Account.
  3. Select Manual setup or additional server types, then click Next.
  4. Choose IMAP, click Next.
  5. Enter the following details:
    • Your Name: As you'd like it to appear to recipients
    • Email Address: Provided in your welcome email
    • Account Type: IMAP
    • Incoming Mail Server: Provided in your welcome email
    • Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): Provided in your welcome email
    • Username: Provided in your welcome email
    • Password: Provided in your welcome email
  6. Click More Settings.
  7. In the Outgoing Server tab:
    • Check My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication
    • Select Use same settings as my incoming mail server
  8. Go to the Advanced tab:
    • Incoming server (IMAP): 993
    • Use the following type of encrypted connection: SSL
    • Outgoing server (SMTP): 465
    • Encrypted connection: SSL or TLS (whichever is listed)
  9. Click OK, then Next.
  10. Outlook will test your settings. If successful, click Close.
  11. Finally, click Finish to complete the setup.

🎉 You're all set!​

Your Outlook account is now configured and ready to use.