UNISA MyLife emails in Outlook

Hi

I am having trouble setting up to Access my UNISA MyLife E-Mail account in MS Outlook

I have tried with the POP3 & IMAP. Can someone please assist me with the right settings?


UNISA MyLife

Yes you can receive your UNISA emails in Outlook.

I must admit I tried several times, encrypted and uncrypted mode, to use the Exchange to add a mail profile as they describe on the help here, but given up on it. Used my existing profile, and tried to add MyLife a/c, tried a New Profile. But it doesn’t work for me. Still waiting for a reply from UNISA.

Alternatively you can set POP3 and IMAP, personally I prefer IMAP.
If you want to see what the differences between the two are, have a look here.

I am assuming that you know how to add an e-mail

Settings for POP3:

POP3: pop.exchangelabs.com
SMTP: smtp-eu.exchangelabs.com
Internet E-Mail Settings

Incoming Server POP3 Port 995 using SSL
Outgoing Server SMTP Port 25 using TLS
Enable Leave a copy of the message on the server.
More Settings - Advanced

Enable My outgoing server(SMTP) requires authentication.
Use the same settings as the incoming server.
More Settings - Outgoing Server

Settings for IMAP:

Note: Login to Windows Live Outlook using your MyLife id and have a look at the addressbar to confirm the SMTP mail server.
Server Address
Drop the https:// and /owa. only use podxxxxx.outlook.com.

Incoming mail server: outlook.com
Outgoing mail server(SMTP): pod51002.outlook.com
Internet E-Mail Settings

Incoming Server POP3 Port 993 using SSL
Outgoing Server SMTP Port 25 using TLS
More Settings - Advanced

Enable My outgoing server(SMTP) requires authentication.
Use the same settings as the incoming server.
More Settings - Outgoing Server

How to see additional IMAP Folders

Right click on the MyLife Folder in Outlook, and select Folders
Select IMAP Folder

Select Query
Select Query

Now you can select the items/folders you want to see in Outlook. (Subscribe/Unsubscribe).
Click OK
Subscribe

Have a look at the MyLife Folders. You should be able to see the items/folders you subscribe to.
IMAP folders in Outlook

Conclusion

Why don't you just forward the emails to one of your other email accounts eg Hotmail?

Good solution....!

Login to your Unisa mylife account via the web.
Go to the top right of the screen where it says "Options" and click it.
Select "See all options...".
On the left of the screen select the "Account" option (if it is not already selected).
On the middle right of the screen there is a "Shortcuts" section and in the middle of that is a "Forward your email" option.
Select it and in the bottom part of the screen, labelled "Forwarding" you can put the forwarding email address in and choose whether to keep a copy on the server.

This is much easier than trying to get MS Outlook to work. The irony is that the Unisa mylife email system is a MS product called MS Outlook Live.

It can be done. See my blog for details: http://sovietcoding.com/?p=395

thanks for resetting my password

I cant acces my unisa email since January 2019 and i am a returning student. I am using my Unisa login password. I resseted many times and still it does not take my password

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