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Setting up your Outlook MailClient

This page will guide you step by step through setting up your Outlook Mail Client for useage on ByteHostings services. If you need help please feel free to contact support.

Step 1: Go to E-mail account configuration

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Select "E-mail Accounts" under Tools.

Step 2: Add a new E-mail account

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When finished, click "Next".

Step 3: Select the type of account

Our Servers support follwoing types of accounts:
You must choose one of the following types in the list below. The other types listed in the dialog shown below will not work with our services.

Pick from one of:

POP3 - POP3 keeps your messages on your local computer.
IMAP - IMAP keeps the messages on the server, so you can access them from anywhere.

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When finished, click "Next".

Step 4: Configure the account

Use the following information to fill in the following dialog:

Incoming Mail Server:	mail.bytehosting.com
Outgoing Mail Server:	mail.bytehosting.com
Username:	your@email-address.com * Specify your email address.

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Click on "More Settings" once you've filled out the above information.

Step 5: Enable SMTP Authentication (under the "more settings" area):

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Save all changes and give it a go! You should be all set. Now that wasn't so hard, was it?

SMTP Settings Troubleshooting Tip

You may find that when you configure Outlook to use your our mail-server as the outgoing SMTP server, those connection attempts get blocked. You may get an error message like "Could not connect to server". Often, this is due to your ISP blocking foreign connetions to port 25 (smtp). Most large ISP's these days will block attempts to connect to a foreign SMTP server. This is an anti-spam measure. The solution is to use your ISP's SMTP server instead of ours.

Let's take a real-life example:

Earthlink, for example, blocks connection attempts to foreign SMTP servers. If you use Earthlink DSL, you would have to configure Outlook to use Earthlink's SMTP servers (mail.earthlink.net) instead of our mail-server's. So, in the SMTP server setting in Outlook, you would specify "mail.earthlink.net" instead of our server's address. Of course, whether or not you configure Outlook to use SMTP authentication at this point is strictly determined by what your ISP's SMTP connection rules are. If you need help, contact your ISP.

This guide is based on the qmailrocks.org client configuration guide.
Information contained within this document is used under permission from The Rocks Project.