VANILLA - internet services, simple.

About Vanilla

Vanilla provides simple, affordable internet services for the people of South Africa.

We have been doing this since 1996 - you can trust us to get it right.

Vanilla connects you to the internet through Verizon Business, one of South Africa's fastest and most reliable networks, used by many major companies.

Vanilla gives you a choice of easy to use services - you pick what you want and only pay for what you use. No complex bundles, No long-term contracts, No credit checks or red tape. We guarantee 99% uptime and the secure of our systems.

Vanilla bills you by email; we accept payment by direct electronic payment.

Vanilla keeps everything as simple as possible (and when its not simple we will do our best to explain things simply or recomend someone to come and help).

EmailOutlook

Easily setup and configure Microsoft Outlook for Vanilla email servers

This tutorial shows you how to set up Microsoft Outlook to work with your e-mail account. This tutorial focuses on setting up Microsoft Outlook 2003, but these settings are similar in other versions of Microsoft Outlook. You can set up previous versions of Microsoft Outlook by using the settings in this tutorial.

  1. In Microsoft Outlook, select Tools > E-mail Accounts.
  2. On the E-mail Accounts wizard window, select Add a new e-mail account and click Next.
  3. For your server type, select POP3 and click Next.
  4. On the Internet E-mail Settings (POP3) window, enter your information as follows:
    1. Your Name: Enter your first and last name.
    2. E-mail Address: Enter your e-mail address as provided by Vanilla.
    3. User Name: Enter your user name as provided by Vanilla
    4. Password: Enter the password you set up for your e-mail account.
    5. Incoming mail server (POP3): Enter your POP3 setting as provided by Vanilla.
    6. Outgoing mail server (SMTP): Enter the SMTP setting as provided by your ISP.

    Click More Settings.

  5. On the Internet E-mail Settings window, select the Outgoing Server tab.
  6. Select My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication.
  7. If you did not change the SMTP relay section, select Use same settings as my incoming mail server. If you changed the user name and password in the SMTP relay section of your Manage Email Accounts page, select Log on using and enter the user name and password. The following example assumes you did not change your SMTP relay section in your Manage Email Accounts page.
  8. Select the Advanced tab and change the Outgoing server (SMTP) port to 80.
  9. Click OK.
  10. Click Next.
  11. Click Finish.