WebMail – Accessing Your Emails Via Webmail

Webmail – Logging into your mail server

Webmail – If you intend using Webmail as your mail client or if you wish to access your e-mail from an internet connected computer when travelling.

E-mail access anywhere, anytime

Access to your mailbox is also available online via any device via Webmail

You will have been sent your various e-mail account parameters. Please save your password as this is not saved and will have to be reset if you lose it.

Office 365 for business includes access to a cloud based or online version of MS Outlook.

Up to 5 e-mail accounts can be connected to Outlook on the web. Your office 365 connected accounts are typically used to receive e-mails that are not hosted within Office 365.

Step 1 

Log into your Outlook on the web account within Office 365.

Step 2 

Select the Settings Icon (Cog) in the top right of your menu.

Step 3 

On your left menu dropdown select the choose Mail > the Connected Accounts.

Then activate the add an account function by clicking on the + sign.

Step 4 

In the pop up window, add the e-mail address and password which was provided to you by your account manager the select Ok. (Note that passwords are case sensitive.) If no popup window is visible, check to ensure that your browser is not blocking pop-up windows. If so deactivate or allow pop-up’s. 

Step 5 

Office 365 will attempt to connect to your server with us for your e-mail parameters. Once successful a confirmation window will be displayed. If a connection has not been made the following window will display. Select Skip to manually add the account settings.

Step 6 

Select the connection type as either POP or IMAP (recommended where you intend to connect multiple devices simultaneously to your e-mail account such as a notebook computer and a cellphone/mobile device or tablet.) Select Ok. 

Step 7 

Complete the settings as depicted alongside ensuring that:

The User name is your full e-mail address

The incoming server is prefixed with mail e.g. mail.yourdomain.co.za

Select Ok.

Step 8 

Your New account connection screen will now appear. Simply following the instructions to send mails from this e-mail address. Select Ok.

Step 9 

The Connected accounts screen will return with your new account with the Status column displaying the current status of the migration process. To display the latest information simply click the refresh button.

Step 10 

Congratulations, your e-mail accounts have now been setup on Outlook 365 in the cloud and not on your local machine.