Soapbox: Setting up Outlook for e-mail
Soapbox: Setting up Outlook for e-mail
This document explains how to configure Microsoft Outlook to access a Soapbox e-mail server. This assumes that Outlook is installed and has the latest security service packs applied.
Before continuing you need to have a few account details. These are:
- Email Address (such as yourname@example.com.au)
- Your e-mail address password
- Domain name (name of your company, such as example.com.au)
- Mail server address (such as mail.example.com.au or an IP address 192.168.1.1)
1) Start Microsoft Outlook. From the Tools menu, select Email Accounts.
2) Click Add a new e-mail account.
Click Next.
3) Select IMAP the click Next.
4) Type in the information Outlook XP asks for. This includes your name, email address, your Unity logon ID and password, and the incoming and outgoing mail servers. It is fairly straight forward if you have the details required. Here is a list to help explain what needs to be filled out.
Incoming mail server (IMAP): Enter your mail server detail such as mail.example.com.au
Outgoing mail (SMTP) server: This should be the same as your incoming server such as mail.example.com.au
User Name: Enter your email username – such as yourname@example.com.au
Password: Enter your email password
Remember password: Check this box and you won’t be prompted each time you start Outlook. When you change your password on the system, remember to come back here to change it to match.
Once filled out, click on the ‘More Settings’ button to continue.
5) You will now have the ‘Internet Email’ dialogue box open. Click on the Outgoing Server tab to continue.
You must check the box with the text "Outgoing mail server: My server requires authentication", otherwise you will not be able to send email when you are not in the office.
Click OK to complete the configuration.
Click Next, then Finish to complete the Email Accounts dialogue.
Conclusion: You should now have a configured mail client. You should send a test e-mail to another work mate to test if you are sending e-mail and have them reply back to see if you are receiving e-mail.
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