How to setup an email account for Outlook

1. Go to Control Panel then click User Accounts then click Mail. (In Classic View just click Mail).

2. Click E-mail Accounts.

3. Click New.

4. Enter your address and domain details for your mail account, as the example for testuser shows below.

5. For Outgoing mail server (SMTP) you have two options:

a) Enter your ISP's mail server details and click Next and then Finish to complete the setup.

b) Enter your hosted domain (mail.testdomain.com.au in this example). This method requires authentication, so you must then click More Settings, go to the Outgoing Server tab, then click the authentication checkbox as shown in the image below. Once this is done, return to the previous screen and click Next and then Finish.

6. (Optional) If you can receive email but are having trouble sending email and you are using your hosted domain rather than your ISP's mail server (step 5b above) your ISP may be blocking port 25. You may have better results if you switch to port 26. Click More Settings (as in step 5b), go to the Advanced tab, then change port 25 to port 26 as shown.