Setting up an email account

The instructions below are for setting up Apple Mail and Microsoft Outlook 2007 to work with your email account. If you have lost your account password, would like create or cancel an account, or are still having difficulty setting up your mail client, you should contact us.

Apple Mail 3.0

  1. Click Mail > Preferences….
  2. On the Accounts tab, click the + button to add a new account.
  3. Fill in the new window with the following information:
    • Full Name: your name
    • Email Address: your full email address [username@yourdomain.com]
    • Password: your mail account password
    • Important: please deselect the checkbox next to ‘Automatically set up account‘
  4. Click Create.
  5. Fill in the following Incoming Mail Server information:
    • Account Type: Select IMAP
    • Incoming Mail Server: Change this to mail.morgan.net.au
    • User Name: your full email address [username@yourdomain.com]
    • Password: your mail account password
  6. Click Continue.
  7. Enter the following Outgoing Mail Server information:
    • Outgoing Mail Server: mail.morgan.net.au
    • Use Authentication: selected
    • User Name: your full email address [username@yourdomain.com]
    • Password: your mail account password
  8. Click Continue.
  9. Review your Account Summary, and click Create.

Microsoft Outlook 2007

  1. Open Outlook.
  2. For new setups, select Do not upgrade.
  3. Click Yes.
  4. Enter your display name, full email address (username@yourdomain.com), and mail account password.
  5. Select the ‘Manually configure server settings or additional server types‘ checkbox.
  6. Select Internet E-mail.
  7. Settings: enter your name and your full email address (username@yourdomain.com)
    • In the Account Type dropdown menu, select IMAP; enter the incoming and outgoing servers as mail.morgan.net.au.
    • In the ‘User Name’ field, give your full email address (username@yourdomain.com)
    • After creating these settings, clicking Next takes you to the end of the setup.
  8. In the Tools menu, select Options then Mail Setup. Under ‘Email Accounts,’ click E-mail Accounts.
  9. Select an account, and click Change above the list of accounts. Click More Settings, then the Advanced tab.
    • Incoming server must be 993, and must use SSL encryption.
    • Outgoing server can use 587, TLS encryption.
  10. Click the Outgoing Server tab. Make sure that ‘My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication’ is selected. The radio button ‘Use same settings as my incoming mail server’ should also be selected.
  11. Click OK > Next > Finish > Close > OK.