This page is designed to help you set-up Outlook Express™ and Outlook™ to receive your email directly from your website from a cPanel server. You must have email accounts set-up in order to do so. You have set-up your email account in control panel. Your domain is "mywebsite.org". Please substitute your domain name for this generic term when setting up Outlook™ and Outlook Express™. This page is broken down into two sections, Outlook™ and Outlook Express™. See also the following flash tutorials: Outlook™1. Start Outlook™ 2. At the top of the page, click on "Tools" and then "Email Accounts". Under Email click the radio button beside "View or change existing email accounts" and then click "Next". You will see a list of accounts already installed. 3. Click on your primary email account and click "Change". This will display the properties of this account. 4. Make note of the Outgoing Mail (SMTP) server name. This should be the server supplied by your Internet service provider (ISP). 5. Click "Back". This will bring you back to the "Email Accounts" window. 6. Click on "Add" and then choose "POP3" and click "Next". 7. Fill in your name and email address. For incoming mail server (POP3) use the address sent to you in your welcome letter. Normally for cPanel users this would be mail.mywebsite.org. For Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP) use the Outgoing Mail (SMTP) server name you made note of in step 4 above. Optionally, you may use the same mail server as the incoming mail server. 8. For "User Name" enter your full email address. In the password section, enter the password you chose when you set-up the email account in your control panel. Click the "Remember Password" box if you do not want to be constantly re-entering your password. Do not click the "Logon using Secure Password Authentication (SPA)' box. 9. Click on the "More Settings" button. Under the "Outgoing Server" tab click the box beside "My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication and the radio button beside "Use same settings as my incoming server". Click "OK" 10. Click "Next" and then click "Finish" Congratulations. Your email account is now set-up. Please be sure to test it by sending yourself some mail. For additional email addresses, repeat the steps above. If you experience any difficulty, please contact us. 1. Start Outlook Express™ 2. At the top of the page, click on "Tools" and then "Accounts". You will see a list of accounts already installed. 3. Click on your primary email account under the "Mail" tab and click "Properties". This will display the properties of this account. 4. Under the "Servers" tab, make note of the Outgoing Mail (SMTP) server name. This should be the server supplied by your Internet service provider (ISP). 5. Click "Cancel". This will bring you back to the "Internet Accounts" window. 6. Click on "Add>" and then in the pop-up choose "Mail" 7. Enter the name you want displayed when people receive mail from you. and press "Next" 8. Enter the email address you want to use. For example if you installed an email <mary@mywebsite.org>, enter that email address. Press "Next" 9. You should now be on the email server page. For incoming mail use the address sent to you in your welcome letter. Normally for cPanel users this would be mail.mywebsite.org. 10. For Outgoing Mail use the Outgoing Mail (SMTP) server name you made note of in step 4 above. Click "Next". Optionally, you may use the same mail server as in step 9 above. 11. You should now be on the "Internet Mail Logon" window. 12. For "Account Name" enter your full email address. In the password section, enter the password you chose when you set-up the email account in your control panel. Click the "Remember Password" box if you do not want to be constantly re-entering your password. Do not click the "Logon using Secure Password Authentication (SPA)' box. 13. Click "Next" and then click "Finish" Congratulations. Your email account is now set-up. Please be sure to test it by sending yourself some mail. For additional email addresses, repeat the steps above. If you experience any difficulty, please contact us. |