This guide explains how to connect the desktop app New Outlook (desktop application on Windows, replacing Windows Mail) to an email address hosted by Infomaniak.

Preamble

• Although the emails themselves remain stored on the Infomaniak server, the experience in New Outlook is very integrated with the Microsoft cloud:
  • Some information from your account may be used by Microsoft for centralized management and better synchronization experience.
  • If you wish to have total and local control over your emails, consider using third-party email software/clients (such as Thunderbird, for example) that allow for more direct storage.

Add the email address to the application

Prerequisites

• Create the email address within my kSuite or a Mail Service / kSuite.
• Create a password for the email address on the device you are going to configure.
• Check that the Mail Service is configured optimally.

To configure the email application:

1. Open the application.
2. If necessary, click on the gear icon in the top right corner (otherwise, skip to step 4).
3. Click on Add an account:
   
4. Enter the email address to be linked.
5. Click on Continue:
   
6. Enter the password for the email address.
7. Click on the See more button.
8. Check and complete the missing information:
   
9. Scroll down the page with the elevator, then check and complete the missing information.
10. Click on Continue:
    
11. Read and go through the different Microsoft information windows:
    
12. There you go, your email address is now configured in the application:
    

Recommended settings

• Incoming IMAP server = mail.infomaniak.com
• IMAP port = 993 (with SSL)
• Outgoing SMTP server = mail.infomaniak.com
• SMTP port & encryption protocol and command/method to activate this protocol: 587 + STARTTLS
• Username = full & complete email address ( ? )
• Password = the one generated for the email address you want to check (it must meet the detailed criteria at the bottom of this guide)
• Mandatory authentication for sending emails:
  • It is activated in the SMTP settings of your application.
  • Check "use the same parameters as the incoming server" or, depending on the software/email clients, enter a username (= full & complete email address) and the generated password.

Refer to this other guide if you are looking for information about other messaging ports and protocols compatible (SSL / TLS for example).

In case of problem

A solution that seems to work is the combination of these 2 situations:

1. Be logged into your Windows session with a Microsoft account (not just a local account).
2. Have added the email address to connect to Windows to this version of Outlook.

Also create a new password by letting it be generated randomly but also checking that it meets these criteria imposed by Microsoft:

Check that the Mail Service is configured optimally.

The troubleshooting guides help you resolve any issues:

• Become familiar with the solutions provided in this other guide regarding email in general.
• This other guide is more specifically about Outlook.

… and if your Outlook is no longer working since a change in your email password, become familiar with this other guide.