How to set up your Blacknight Email using Microsoft Outlook 2016
Outlook 2016 Email Configuration
- Click File (from Outlook menu)
- Click on “Account Settings” – then select “Account Settings”
- Click on “New” (“Change” if the account already exists)
- Click on “Microsoft Exchange, POP3, IMAP, or HTTP” and press Next (If creating new)
- Click on “Manually configure server settings or additional server types” and press Next (If creating new)
- Click on “Internet E-Mail” and press “Next” (If creating new)
Fill in the various fields as follows:
Your Name: Whatever name you want to appear on your Emails
E-Mail Address: your full email address
Account Type: POP3 (or IMAP if you want to use IMAP)
Incoming mail server: mail.blacknight.com
Outgoing mail server (SMTP): mail.blacknight.com
User Name: your full email address
Password: the password you assigned to the email account when you created it
Then:
Press “More Settings” and go to “Outgoing Server”
Select “My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication”
You can set it to “Use same settings as my incoming mail server”
Press “Advanced” and change the outgoing server port from 25 to 587 and press OK.
Press Next and Finish to finish setting up the email account.
