Setting up your email account in Microsoft Outlook 2010

Open Microsoft Office Outlook 2010. If you have just installed Outlook 2010 it will show in your Start Menu.

Click Start Menu > All Programs > Microsoft Office > Microsoft Office Outlook 2010.

If this is the first time you have opened Outlook 2010 then the Startup wizard will show. Click Next.

If the Setup Wizard does not show then click the File menu and click Add Account.

Outlook will ask if you wish to configure an email account. Select Yes and click Next.

Select Manually configure server settings or additional server types.

Then click Next

Outlook will prompt you to choose your E-mail Service. Select Internet E-mail.

Then click Next.

You will now be asked to enter your email account details.

• Enter your name
• Enter your email address. For example, your@emailaddress.co.uk
• Account Type choose from the following options either IMAP or POP3
• We recommend using IMAP as your account type, this will allow you to get your emails on multiple devices like phones and tablets.
  
• If you selected IMAP then please enter imap.stackmail.com as your Incoming Mail Server
• If you selected POP3 then please enter pop3.stackmail.com as your Incoming Mail Server
• Enter smtp.stackmail.com as your Outgoing Mail Server
• For User Name, is always your full email address. For example: your@emailaddress.co.uk
• Enter your email password which we have provided

Click More Settings.

Click the Outgoing Server tab

Please tick My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication and make ensure the following option is selected Use same settings as my incoming mail server

Now click the Advanced tab

In this area ensure the following settings are as follows:

• if you have selected the incoming mail server to be IMAP then please ensure that the Incoming server (IMAP) has the port number is 993
• For the type of encryption please select SSL
• if you have selected the incoming server to be POP3 then please ensure the Incoming server (POP3) has the port number is 995
• For the type of encryption please select SSL
  
• For the Outgoing Server (SMTP) setting please ensure the port number is 465
• For the type of encryption please select SSL

Then Click OK.

Click Next

Outlook will test your settings.

Click Close

Click Finish.

You should now see your email account in the left-side menu.

To check for new emails click on the Send/Receive tab on the menu bar, then click Send/Receive All Folders

Outlook 2010 will now connect to your email account and show you any emails in your in-box.

That's it, you are done.

Congratulations.

You have now configured Microsoft Outlook 2010 to send and receive emails.