How to set up your email through outlook

How to set up your Microsoft Outlook email to work with your web based email account

This is a step by step tutorial to show you how to set up your microsoft outlook program so that you can send and receive emails from your home computer using your business email address. It is better to send email from your business email eg mail@yourbusiness.com.au because it looks more professional and it's better for your business branding.

Below shows method 1 for setting up your email though outlook. Click to see method 2 for setting up outlook email (if you are unsure which method you should use to set up your outlook, then contact us). If you do not use outlook, there are instrucitons for other email programs here

Step 1. Open up your microsoft outlook program and click on the tools menu. Click on 'E-mail Accounts...'

Step 2. Click on the Add a new email account. Click Next.

Step 3. Choose the type of account that you would like to create - POP 3

Step 4. The bellow will explain how to fill in the fields.

Your Name: Enter your name as you would like it to appear in the From: field of all outgoing mail
Email address. Enter the email address that you want people to sent your emails to.
Incoming mail server (POP3/IMAP server): yourdomain.com
Outgoing mail server (SMTP server): yourdomain.com
User Name: please use the full e-mail account name. Example: you@yourdomain.com instead of you.
Password: ***********

Step 5. Click on the “More Settings…” button
Click on the ‘Outgoing Server’ tab and tick the ‘My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication checkbox.’

Click on the ‘Use same settings as my incoming server’.
Step 6. Click on the ‘Advanced tab’

Here you can choose if you wish to Leave a copy of the messages on the server or not. Make sure you UN check this box otherwise your server space will get filled up with emails.
Please do not use secure authentication as we do not support this method.