How to configure an e-mail account in Outlook 2007-2016 Kenya Print
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Email clients, like Outlook, allow you to easily check your emails not going to web-interface.
This tutorial will help you to configure Microsoft Outlook 2007-2016 for your Email email account.
1) To create a new account in Outlook, first, go to the tab ˜File™. Click on ˜Account Settings™ and choose ˜Account Settings™ from the drop-down menu. 
2) Click ˜New™ in the new window 
3) Choose the option ˜Manually configure server settings or additional server types™ and click ˜Next™
4) Choose ˜Internet E-mail™ and click ˜Next™ 
5) Enter the following settings in the corresponding fields:
Your Name: the name of your account in Outlook
E-mail Address: your email address eg info@yourdomain.com
Account Type: select IMAP or POP3 from the drop-down menu
Incoming mail server: mail.yourdomain.com
Outgoing email server: mail.yourdomain.com
User Name: full email address eg info@yourdomain.com
Password: the password for this email account
Please, make sure, that the option ˜Require logon using Secure Password Authentication ( SPA )™ is unchecked.
6) Click ˜More Settings™
7) Go to the tab ˜Outgoing Server™ and check-mark the option ˜My outgoing server ( SMTP ) requires authentication ˜ 
8) Now go to the tab ˜Advanced™ and enter the following ports:
Incoming server ( if are using IMAP ): 993 port for SSL, 143 for TLS.
Incoming server ( if you are using POP3): 995 port for SSL, 110 for TLS.
Outgoing server (SMTP): 465 port for SSL, 26/587 port for TLS. 
9) Click ˜Ok™ to return to the main window.
10) Click ˜Test Account Settings™ to check if everything entered is correct. If it is, you will see the statuses ˜Completed™ 
11) If the test was successful, you can now click ˜Close™ to get back to the previous window.
Then click ˜Next™ and finish the setup.
Email Ports
| Incoming Ports | ||
| POP3 | 110 | |
| POP3 - SSL | 995 | |
| IMAP | 143 | |
| IMAP - SSL | 993 | |
Outgoing Ports |
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| SMTP | 25 | |
| SMTP Alternate | 26 | |
| SMTP Alternate | 587 | |
| SMTP - SSL | 465 |
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