Manual configuration of an email inbox in Outlook on Android

Introduction

• In the tutorial below, we will present the steps necessary to configure a mailbox in the Android Outlook application using the manual method.
• We will use the mailbox office@demo.hostico.ro as a configuration example.

Requirements 

• Email account login credentials.
• Outlook application installed on the smartphone.

Steps

• Open the Outlook application.

• We select Get Started.
  
  

• We select Skip.
  
• We enter the email box in the field, after which we press the Continue button.

 

• In the next window, we will set the desired account type: Yahoo, Google, Microsoft Exchange, IMAP, etc. To configure an email box hosted on Hostico servers, we will select the IMAP option.

***Optional Steps***

 

• If the application does not ask us to select the account type, we will need to do this manually. We will press the "?" symbol in the upper right corner.

• From here, we will click on Change Account Provider.
  
  
  
  
  
• In the next window, we will set the desired account type: Yahoo, Google, Microsoft Exchange, IMAP, etc. To configure an email box hosted on Hostico's servers, we will select the IMAP option.

 

***Completion of optional steps***

• We continue setting up the email box.
• For manual configuration of a mailbox, we will click on the button on the right ADVANCED SETTINGS at the bottom of the page.

• In the following page, we will be able to proceed to the manual configuration of the email mailbox. We will observe the following fields:
  -Email Address -- the email mailbox.
  -Password -- the password of the email mailbox.
  -Display Name -- a name that will appear in the From field at the destination.
  -Description -- a short description of the mailbox.
  IMAP Incoming Mail Server
  -IMAP Host Name -- Here, the email server address for the incoming server will be entered. You can try one of the following options:
  ---- 1) mail.domain.tld (your domain with the prefix mail).
  ---- 2) domain.tld (only your domain without any prefix).
  ---- 3) the hostname of the email server (the name of the email server).
  ---- 4) the dedicated IP of the email server.
  -IMAP Username -- the email mailbox.
  -IMAP Password -- the password of the email mailbox.
  SMTP Outgoing Mail Server
  -SMTP Host Name -- Here, the email server address for the outgoing server will be entered. You can try one of the following options:
  ---- 1) mail.domain.tld (your domain with the prefix mail).
  ---- 2) domain.tld (only your domain without any prefix).
  ---- 3) the hostname of the email server (the name of the email server).
  ---- 4) the dedicated IP of the email server.
  -SMTP Username -- the email mailbox.
  -SMTP Password -- the password of the email mailbox.
• After filling in the fields, we will click the button with the symbol "✓", in the top right corner.

• If we receive a warning regarding the SSL certificate, we will press Accept Certificate.
• If everything went smoothly, we will be greeted with a success message.

• To view the emails from the mailbox, we will click the SKIP button at the bottom left.
• A short tutorial on Outlook will appear. If we do not wish to follow this tutorial, we will click again on SKIP in the bottom left.
• Furthermore, we will be able to use the email box.