Outlook

Tutorial for Microsoft Outlook

NOTICE: We consider Outlook to be a broken mail client. We do not officially support Outlook. Some people can get Outlook working, some can’t. We highly encourage people to switch to thunderbird

These instructions are for Windows only: the Mac version of Outlook is called Entourage.

If you have any recent version of Microsoft Office installed on your computer, you have Microsoft Outlook, which is the full-featured (bloated) version of Outlook Express. Here’s how to set up Microsoft Outlook to use your Riseup account.

If you are setting up Outlook for the first time, you will be prompted to enter your full name, email address, etc. If you’re asked to enter a server, enter mail.riseup.net. When it asks what kind of server it is, select POP3. When it says “you’re finished!”, you’re not done yet…

  1. Go to Tools, then to Accounts.
  2. Go to the Mail tab and click on the Riseup server listed there. (You can rename the server’s display name at any time; for example, Riseup Email Account.)
  3. Go to the Servers tab. Make sure both your incoming (POP3) and your outgoing (SMTP) servers are mail.riseup.net, unless you have a different outgoing server your ISP provides. (I’ll get to that in a minute)
  4. Enter your username and password in the appropriate fields, check the box under Outgoing server that says “My server requires authentication,” click Settings, and make sure the “Use the same settings as incoming server” is selected.
  5. Click over to the Advanced tab and look under Server Port Numbers (the top). “Under Outgoing Mail (SMTP),” there will be a box marked “This server requires a secure connection (SSL).” Check that box, but leave that option for the Incoming Server (POP3) blank.
  6. Now, make sure that the outgoing mail server port number is set to 467.
  7. Click OK and apply all the settings you made.
  8. If you are not using mail.riseup.net as your outgoing server, all you need to do is enter the server you will be using in the Outgoing Mail (SMTP) field of the Servers tab. Most ISPs will not require the setting “My server requires authentication” or “This server requires a secure connection.”