Setting up email in Outlook
Follow these steps to manually configure your email account in Outlook:
- Open Outlook, go to the File menu (top left).
- Click Add Account.
- Select Manual setup or additional server types, then click Next.
- Choose IMAP, click Next.
- 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
- Click More Settings.
- In the Outgoing Server tab:
- Check My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication
- Select Use same settings as my incoming mail server
- Go to the Advanced tab:
- Incoming server (IMAP):
993 - Use the following type of encrypted connection:
SSL - Outgoing server (SMTP):
465 - Encrypted connection:
SSLorTLS(whichever is listed)
- Incoming server (IMAP):
- Click OK, then Next.
- Outlook will test your settings. If successful, click Close.
- Finally, click Finish to complete the setup.
🎉 You're all set!​
Your Outlook account is now configured and ready to use.