The following instructions should help you setup GVTC IMAP email if you are using Outlook as your email program.
- Open Outlook 2010
- Go To Tools
- Account Settings
- Click New…
Select the Manually configure server settings or additional server types button and then click Next.
In the Add New Email Account window, select Internet Email and then click Next.
Enter the following in each field:
- Your Name: your full name, including spaces and capitalization
- Email address: yourentireaddress@gvtc.com
- Account Type: IMAP
- Incoming mail server: imap.gvtc.com
- Outgoing mail server: smtp.gvtc.com
- User Name: your email address again
- Password: *********
Select More Settings…
Click the Advanced tab.
- Incoming Server port number: 143
- None for encryption
- Outgoing Server port number: 587
- None for encryption
**** While these are old imap settings, it has been brought to our attention that various alternate port settings may work differently. Someone suggested that the incoming/outgoing ports both worked if set to 993 SSL/TLS. Every once in a while we have found Outgoing set to 25 may work. GVTC is not very forthcoming when it comes to their settings and that is primarily because imap is not what they prefer to be used. Newer versions of Outlook want you to use Microsoft Exchange servers. This is just here to detail what has worked in the past. ****
Click the Outgoing Server tab
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- Check My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication.
- Click Ok
The click the Test Account Settings… button
When email message tests are completed, click Close.
Click Finish
