Set up Outlook 2013

Setting up your Outlook correctly allows you to manage your mailbox simultaneously on your personal computer and on the various mobile devices that you want to keep connected to your mail account. This guide applies to the 2013 version of Microsoft Outlook.

Step 1

You can skip this step if you are setting up the first Outlook account, because it automatically starts the account setup when you start the application. If it is the second account, you need to go to the File | Info menu, and click the “Add Account” button. Skip to step 4.

Step 2

Click the “Next” button in the welcome dialog.

Step 3

Answer Yes to the question about whether you want to set up a new email account in Outlook. Click Next.

Step 4

Choose “Manual Setup or additional server types” and click Next

Step 5

Choose POP or IMAP. Click Next.

Step 6

Fill in the following elements in the form:

Your name
Your email address
Account type: IMAP
Incoming mail server: mail.sooma.com
Outgoing mail server: mail.sooma.com
User Name: Your complete e-mail address (Outlook only fills in the part before the @)
Your password

Click on “More Settings

Step 7

Choose the tab Outgoing Server, and turn on the option “My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication.

Step 8

Choose the Advanced tab, and fill in the following elements in the form:

Use the following type of encrypted connection: TLS (fill in both places where it occurs)
Outgoing server port: 587 (Outlook fills in 25, by default)
Server Timeouts: 5 minutes

Click OK

Step 9