Here is a step-by-step guide on setting up MS Outlook as your Email client. You will then be able to read your emails on your desktop, laptop, mobile phone, or tablet by logging in to your Mozilla Thunderbird email client.
This article assumes you are already logged into your cPanel account and have already created an email account. If you haven’t yet created an email account, please read our other knowledgebase article, “How to Create Email Accounts”.
- Open the MS Outlook Email Client and click on the Accounts link located in the left column.
- Then, click on Add Account.
- You’ll be taken to a screen similar to the one below. Choose Advanced setup next to the gear icon.
- Next, choose the Internet Email option.
- When you created your email account in cPanel, you would have received the Client Configuration Settings for the email account you just created. It will look something like this:
______________________________________________
Incoming Server
Server Type: IMAP Mail Server
Server Name: mail.yourdomainname.com
Port: 993
Security Settings
Connection Security: SSL/TLS
Authentication Method: Normal Password
______________________________________________
Outgoing Server (SMTP)
Description: <i.e. full name of the email account owner)>
Server Name: mail.yourdomainname.com
Port: 465
Security and Authentication
Connection security: SSL/TLS
Authentication Method: Normal Password
User Name:<Enter email address here>
______________________________________________ - Now, use these Mail Client Manual Settings to help fill in the following form:
- You’ll be taken to a confirmation screen similar to the one below.
- Now click on the sync link to refresh your inbox.
- After syncing, all of the emails that are already in your inbox, including all the folders that you created will show in your inbox.
- Complete the process by sending an email out to another email address to ensure that sending emails works. Likewise, send an email from another account to your newly configured email account to test that receiving email also works.
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