Automatically configuring an email account in Outlook on Android

Introduction

• In the tutorial below, we will present the necessary steps to configure a mailbox in the Android Outlook application using the automatic 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, then 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 servers, we will select the IMAP option.

 

***Completion of optional steps***

• We continue setting up the email box.
• In the next window we will be able to fill in the fields:
  -Email Address -- the email box.
  -Password -- the password for the email box.
  -Display Name -- a name that will appear in the From field at the destination.
  -Description -- a short description of the 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.