This guide helps you configure the Microsoft Outlook client to access the email, address book and calendar services powered by Qboxmail.
This way, your e-mails, address books, and calendars will always be in synch with Microsoft Outlook. New contacts or events created in Webmail will also be visible on Outlook and vice versa.
Email configuration
To configure the Professional email account, you need to use the POP or IMAP protocols for receiving messages, and SMTP for sending.
- Click on File menu;
- Click on Add account button;
- A window will appear on the screen. Enter the email address to configure;
- Click on Advanced options and check Let me set up my account manually;
- Proceed by clicking on Connect;
- Select IMAP from the available options.
In the screen that will open, you need to configure parameters as shown below:
Incoming mail
- Server: imap.emailpnl.com
- Port: 993
- Encryption method: SSL/TLS
Outgoing mail
- Server: smtp.emailpnl.com
- Port: 465
- Encryption method: SSL/TLS
Once the parameters are set, confirm by clicking on the Next button.
- Enter the email account password;
- Click on Connect;
- Confirm the insertion of the new email account by clicking Done.
Calendar and Address Book configuration
To enable synchronization and share feature of the address book and calendar on the platform, you need to install the Outlook plugin.
Once the plugin has been downloaded, unzip the zip file, double-click on the Setup file in the folder and complete the installation procedure. At the end of the procedure, you need to open Outlook or restart the program, if it was open already.
After restarting Outlook, you need to follow the next steps:
- Click on CalDav Synchronizer tab;
- Open Synchronization Profiles;
- Click on the second icon (green + with white squares);
- In the window that will open on screen, check the item Sogo and confirm by clicking on the Ok button.
Once this is done, a window will appear asking you to fill in the fields related to the configuration of the connection to the Qboxmail platform.
- Name: choose a profile name;
- DAV URL: https://dav.qboxmail.com/SOGo/dav/;
- Username: the email address of the account to be configured;
- Password: the password for the account to be configured;
- Email address: the email address configured in Outlook.
After these fields are completed, search for calendars and address books on the server by clicking on Discover resources and assign to Outlook folders.
In the window that will open on the screen, it will be possible to choose or create folders where you can save the contacts/calendars found by the plugin. To do this, click on the Other icon corresponding to each resource found. If new folders are created, you must make sure that the folder content is correct (Calendar-type or contact-type elements).
Once the folders' configuration is finished, you can specify the interval (in minutes) for automatic synchronization of your resources (basic synchronization is set at 30 minutes), and other preferences. Confirm by clicking on the Ok button.
To process a first synchronization:
- Click on CalDav Synchronizer tab;
- Click on Synchronize now.
