How to Set Up Email Accounts on Microsoft Outlook 2010

Note: To complete these steps, you will need to know your email address, password, incoming mail server name, and outgoing mail server name as provided by your Hosting Provider.

1. Open the File menu, and click Info

2. Click Account Settings button, and then Account Settings...

3. In the Account Settings dialog, under E-mail tab, click New...

4. In the Add New Account dialog, select E-mail Account, and click Next button.

5. In the Auto Account Setup screen select Manually configure server settings or additional server types, then click Next button.

6. Select Internet E-mail and click Next button.

7. Fill in the fields as follows:

   1. Your Name: A. N. Other
   2. E-mail Address: another@yourdomainname.co.rw
   3. Account Type: IMAP or POP
   4. Incoming mail server: mail.yourdomainname.co.rw
   5. Outgoing mail server: mail.yourdomainname.co.rw
   6. User Name: another@yourdomainname.co.rw
   7. Password: yourpassword (you may check Remember password to have Outlook always remember the password)

8. Click More Settings...

9. In the Internet E-mail Settings screen, click the Outgoing Server tab.

10. Ensure My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication box is checked, and select Use same settings as my incoming mail server.

11. Click Advanced tab

12. Ensure Incoming server is set to 143 for IMAP or 110 for POP and Outgoing server (SMTP) is set to 25 or 3666.

13. Click OK to save

14. Clear Test Account Settings by clicking the Next button checkbox.

15. Click Test Account Settings... button to have Outlook perform diagnostic tests on the setup (if all is well it should report two success messages)

16. After it finishes, click Close.

17. Click Next button, then Finish button to close the account creation wizard.