Manage your business email with Microsoft Outlook 2007

This tutorial shows you how to set up Microsoft Outlook to receive emails from your email account. This tutorial focuses on setting up Microsoft Outlook 2007, but these settings are similar in other versions of Microsoft Outlook and other email programs.

If you are intending to access your emails through more than one device, be it a computer/laptop and another computer, laptop, smart phone and/or tablet, you need to review the information in this article before proceeding any further, as you may be wasting your time if you proceed with this setup. 

1. In Microsoft Outlook, select Tools -> Account Settings

 

2. On the E-mail Accounts wizard window, select New and click Next.

3. For your server type, select POP3 and click Next.

4. On Auto Account Set Up window, skip over all of the fields and select the tick box that says Manually configure server settings or additional server types and click Next.

5. On Choose E-mail Service window, select Internet E-mail and click Next.

6. On the Internet E-mail Settings window, enter your information as follows:

Your Name
Enter your first and last name as you would like it to appear to those receiving your emails.

E-mail Address
Enter your e-mail address.

Account Type
Set it to POP3.

Incoming mail server
Your incoming server is mail.mysite.com.au, where "mysite.com.au" is the name of your domain.eg. mail.magicdust.com.au

Outgoing mail server (SMTP)
Enter the SMTP outgoing mail server of your ISP. (Your ISP is the company you get your internet from.)

For example:

• mail.bigpond.com (for Bigpond users)

• smtp.aapt.com.au (for AAPT Users)

• mail.optusnet.com.au (for Optus users)

• mail.tpg.com.au (for TPG users)
   
• Or select your ISP from this list of outgoing mail servers:  http://magicdustsupport.com/kb2/entry/234/
  
   

User Name
Enter your username for your EMAIL account. This will be in the format of: info+mysite.com.au eg. tamsin+magicdust.com.au

Password
Enter the password for your EMAIL account. (This is on the Official Handover Letter you recieved from Magicdust.)

Select the tick box that says Remember password.

Click Test Account Settings.

7. Outook will then take a few seconds to check your email set up, and return a confirmation that the email has been successfully created.

8. Click Close.

9. Click the More Settings … button.

10.   Go to the Advanced Tab.

11.  Under the Delivery heading, check Leave a Copy of Messages on the Server.

12.   Then you will need to set up the automatic deleting of your email messages from the server after a certain number of days - select the number of days you want to leave the message on the server before it is deleted (between 14-30 days is suggested).

If emails are not being removed from the server automatically after a period of time (14-30 days) your inbox will fill up.  If the Inbox fills up, emails will not be received until you contact Support and get your email account quota temporarily increased.  

If you have any problems with your mail setup, please don't hesitate to contact support on support@magicdust.com.au