First, an account must be created in Outlook. In Outlook, click Tools at the top, and subsequently click Account settings.
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Click New in the Account settings menu to launch the wizard and to start creating your account.
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Configuration menus
In the menu Add e-mail account, leave the top option checked and click Next.
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Tick Manually configure server settings or extra server types and click Next.
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Leave the option Internet e-mail checked and click Next.
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Provide outlook details
Enter your name and use your DirectAdmin e-mail account @website.uk as e-mail address. Website.uk is the name of your website in this example.
Choose the type of account, IMAP.
Enter mail.website.uk for both the server for incoming and outgoing e-mail.
For login details, use the login name of your DirectAdmin e-mail account as User name and the password of this user as password.
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Extra outlook settings
Click More settings… at the bottom right of the screen. Go to the tab Server for outgoing e-mail and tick the top option, For the server for outgoing e-mail (SMTP) verification is required.
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Go to the tab Advanced and enter 587 for Outgoing e-mail (SMTP) and click OK.
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To check whether everything is working, please click Test account settings, at the top right. When both tasks have been successfully completed, click Close and then click Finish.
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Please note there is an option "detect and automatically update account settings" that should be deactivated to work correctly.