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This guide will take you through the steps of setting up your email address in Outlook. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Step 1 <\/span><\/strong>\u2013 Open Outlook and click\u00a0<\/span>File.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

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Step 2<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Click\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>Add account.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

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Step 3 \u2013\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>Type in your email address and click Connect.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n

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Step 4\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>\u2013 Enter your password and click Connect<\/strong> to continue.<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n

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INFO: \u00a0<\/strong>At this point if your Outlook does not connect automatically please select the manual settings and enter information below:<\/h3>\n

Incoming mail:\u00a0<\/strong>mail.yourdomain.co.za \u00a0 port: 993 \u00a0 \u00a0 SSL \/YES<\/h3>\n

Outgoing mail:\u00a0<\/strong>mail.yourdomain.co.za \u00a0 port: 465 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0SSL \/YES<\/h3>\n

Should you still experience error please see our troubleshooting guide<\/a> here for alternative settings.<\/h3>\n

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Step 5\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>\u2013 Completed! Click done<\/strong> to start using your email account.<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n

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TIP:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span>Should you experience issue any error messages at this point please click<\/span> here\u00a0<\/a>to see our Troubleshooting guide.<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n
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This guide will take you through the steps of setting up your email address in Outlook.  Step 1 \u2013 Open Outlook and click\u00a0File. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Step 2\u00a0\u2013 Click\u00a0Add account. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Step 3 \u2013\u00a0Type in your email address and click Connect. \u00a0 Step 4\u00a0\u2013 Enter your password…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[1193],"ht-kb-tag":[43,58,336,470,480,709,904,908,1069],"class_list":["post-24002","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-email-setup-config","ht_kb_tag-43","ht_kb_tag-account","ht_kb_tag-email","ht_kb_tag-hosting","ht_kb_tag-how-to","ht_kb_tag-outlook","ht_kb_tag-set","ht_kb_tag-setup","ht_kb_tag-up"],"yoast_head":"\nHow to set up email in Outlook 2016 - 1-grid Knowledge Base<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This guide will take you through the steps of setting up your email address in Outlook.\u00a0How to set up email in Outlook 2016\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/1grid.co.za\/knowledge\/how-to-set-up-email-in-outlook-2016\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How to set up email in Outlook 2016 - 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