How to add your email account to Microsoft Outlook (Desktop)

Microsoft Outlook is a popular email client on desktop and on mobile devices. This article gives you steps to add your email account to Outlook for Desktop. If you would like to setup your mobile, please click on the link to the article below:

 

Step 1: Ensure that your email account exists. If you need help on creating an email account, please read these articles:

 

Step 2: Open Outlook, obviously :) 

 

Step 3: Click on "File" in the top left corner. 

 

Step 4: Click on Add Account

 

Step 5: In the pop up that opens, type in your email account and tick the option for “Let me set up my account manually.” Click on the “Connect” button. In our example, we’re adding Jesede’s hello@ mailbox.

 

Step 6: Select the “POP” option.

 

Step 7: Fill in the information as shown in the image below but replace jesede.com with your domain name.

  • For example, if your domain is ubuntu4all.co.za, your incoming and outgoing mail server will be: mail.ubuntu4all.co.za.
  • The port for incoming mail is 995
  • The port for outgoing mail is 465
  • Note: Be sure to tick the checkboxes as shown in the image below.
  • Click on the “Next” button when you have filled your information.

 

Step 8: Enter your mail account password and press the “Connect” button.

 

Step 9: Voila! Your mail account should be added and reflect in Outlook.

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