Set Up Your Hosting Email in Microsoft Outlook

What is Outlook?

Outlook is a program on your computer that reads and sends email. It keeps your messages in one place. To connect it to your email, you give it a few settings.

What you need

• Your full email address, like info@yourdomain.com.
• The password for that address.
• The incoming and outgoing server names. Find them in cPanel under Email Accounts, then Connect Devices. Your welcome email also helps.

Steps

1. Open Outlook.
2. Click File.
3. Click Add Account.

   

4. Choose Manual setup or additional server types. Click Next.

   

5. Choose POP or IMAP. Click Next.

   

6. Fill in your name and email address.
7. Set Account Type to IMAP. IMAP keeps mail on the server so you can see it on many devices. POP3 downloads it to one computer.
8. Type the incoming mail server and the outgoing mail server.
9. Type your full email address as User Name and your password.
10. Click More Settings.

    

    

11. Open the Outgoing Server tab. Tick My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication. Choose Use same settings as my incoming mail server.

    

    

12. Open the Advanced tab.
13. Set the ports. A common secure choice is IMAP 993 with SSL and SMTP 465 with SSL. Use the values from cPanel.
14. Click OK.
15. Click Next. Outlook tests the settings.
16. Click Close, then Finish.

Check that it works

1. Click New Email.
2. Send a message to yourself.
3. Wait a moment and see if it arrives.

If the test fails

• Check the password and the full address.
• Check the server names for typing errors.
• Try the other secure port.
• Make sure your antivirus is not blocking Outlook.
• Open a ticket at Hostvento support if you stay stuck.

Quick recap

• Use File, Add Account, then manual setup.

  

• Pick IMAP and enter server names from cPanel.
• Turn on SMTP authentication.
• Test by sending yourself an email.