Important: You need to firstly create an email account within cPanel. See this article to do this.
Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 and earlier versions of Outlook
- Start Outlook.
- On the Tools menu, click to select E-mail Accounts.
- In the E-mail Accounts dialog box, click to select the Add a new E-mail Account option, and then click Next.
- In the Server Type dialog box, click POP3, and then click Next
- In the E-mail Accounts dialog box, enter the required information by using the following guidelines:
- User Information
- Your Name: This should be your full name.
- E-mail Address: Your ISP provides this information. Your e-mail address usually takes the form of a combination of your first and last name and the name of your ISP, separated by the at sign (@) and periods. For example, Patricia Doyle uses an ISP by the name of Adatum.net. The ISP may assign an e-mail address of PatriciaD@adatum.net.
- Logon Information
- User Name: This is usually the part of your e-mail address to the left of the at sign (@).
- Password: Enter the password that your ISP provided.
- You may click to select the check box to have Outlook remember your e-mail account password.
- Server Information
- Incoming Mail Server (POP3): This is the name of the POP3 server that holds your messages before you download it to your computer.
- Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): This is the name of the Outgoing e-mail server. Enter the server names in lower case in both the Incoming e-mail server and the Outgoing e-mail server. The names may be in the form of mail.adatum.net, or they could be in the form of an IP address such as 168.192.10.1.
- User Information
- Click Test Account Settings. This is a new capability in Outlook. This feature calls a dialog box that displays, in a step-by-step manner, each phase of testing the configuration that you have just input. The following occurs when you click Test Account Settings:
- The connectivity of your system to the Internet is confirmed.
- You are logged on to the SMTP server.
- You are logged on to the POP3 server.
- It is determined if the POP3 server needs to be logged on to first. If necessary, Outlook automatically sets Log on to incoming mail server before sending mail.
- A test message is sent. This message explains any changes that Outlook made to your initial setup.
- Click More Settings. This takes you to the Internet E-mail Settings dialog box, where you may further modify your Internet e-mail account.