Guides & How-Tos
Setting Up Outlook for Desktop & Mobile — The Complete Guide
Moving a business inbox onto Outlook is simple once you skip the automatic wizard. Below is our field-tested walkthrough for connecting a Rediffmail Pro mailbox to Outlook on desktop and mobile, plus the DNS and branding steps that keep everything routing correctly on your own domain.
We’ve turned our internal setup sheet into a printable reference — every host, port, and encryption setting your team needs, in one place.
Infographic & PDF coming soon — email [email protected] for the full reference sheet.
Desktop Mail Client Setup — Full Reference
IMAP/POP3 host settings, mobile app configuration, login branding, and Cloudflare DNS records.
What’s covered
- IMAP & POP3 setup — exact host, port, and encryption settings for both incoming and outgoing mail.
- Mobile configuration — step-by-step for the Outlook mobile app and Apple Mail.
- Login branding — how to put your logo on the webmail login screen.
- Cloudflare DNS — the MX, CNAME, and TXT records that make mail and your custom domain work together.
- Fallback access — webmail and admin panel links to use while DNS propagates.
Don’t skip it: the most common failure point is outgoing mail — Outlook requires “My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication” to be checked, even though it isn’t selected by default.
Have your domain’s DNS access and admin login ready before you start — Parts 3 and 4 of the guide need both.