Setting up HatariCloud Mail on MS Outlook

Microsoft Outlook comes bundled into the Microsoft Office Suite along with MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and others. For this tutorial, we have used MS Office 2013 but the procedure should be able to work on MS Office 2016 and previous versions.

Hataricloud mail connects to MS Outlook via IMAP/POP3 standards. These are merely email protocols that email clients like Outlook use to talk to eMail services such as Hataricloud Mail.

So let’s get started!

Step 1:

add email account

Press the Windows Button and look for Outlook in Programs.

When you open Outlook, a window will appear as shown above. Click Next

Step 2:

Manual Setup

Select ‘Manual setup or additional server types’ and click Next

Step 3:

choose service 1

Select POP or IMAP and click Next

Step 4:

POP and IMAP Account Setting

Enter your Name and HatariCloud Email Address as shown in the above example.

Select IMAP as Account Type

type mail.hataricloud.com for both Incoming and Outgoing mail servers

Enter your HatariCloud Username and Password

Place a tick on ‘Require Logon using Secure Password Authentication

Click on ‘More Settings…”

Step 5:

internet email settings

Select the Outgoing Server tab

Place a tick on ‘My Outgoing Server (SMTP) requires authentication’

Step 6:

Internet email settings 1

A new popup window will appear

Select SSL type of encrypted connection for both Incoming and Outgoing servers

Use ports 993 for IMAP/Incoming and port 465 for SMTP/Outgoing

Step 7:

Congratulations

MS Outlook will test your new connection.

Close the Test Account Settings after it successfully completes

Step 8:

All done

Success! Click Finish (If you have other accounts to add, repeat the procedure)

Now you can enjoy HatariCloud Mail on your desktop with a click of a button.

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