Step by Step insctruction to setup your email account with Outlook 2010
- Open Outlook.
- If this is the first time you've opened Outlook 2010, the Welcome to Outlook 2010 Startup window will appear automatically. Click Next twice and continue to step 2. Otherwise click the File tab, make sure Info is selected from the left menu and click Add Account.
- Select Manually configure server settings or additional server types and click Next.
- Select Internet E-mail and click Next.
- Fill in all necessary fields to include the following information
User Information
Your Name: Enter your name as you would like it to appear in the From: field of outgoing messages.
Email Address: Enter your full email address (username@yourdomain.tld)
Account Type
From the dropdown menu, select POP3.
Server Information
Incoming mail server (POP3): mail.yourdomain.tld (mail.example.co.za)
Outgoing mail server (SMTP): mail.yourdomain.tld (mail.example.co.za)
Login Information
User Name: Enter your full address in the format username@yourdomain.tld
Password: Enter your email password
Congratulations! You're done configuring your client to send and retrieve Email messages.
On a final note, your account is setup on a shared server. Please make sure that your automatic email retrieval frequency is set to a minimum of 5 minutes. Anything quicker than that may cause a temporary ban of you IP address on our server.
