In this tutorial, we will show you how to set up MS Outlook 2007 to check your email. Outlook 2007 will allow you to send and receive emails from your desktop without logging into webmail. You must have an email account already created in cPanel to do so. Please contact us or log into your Client Area>Cpanel>Email Accounts to obtain your settings.

How to Setup MS Outlook 2007

1. 1. Open Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 on your local computer
   2. Go to Tools -> Account Settings
   3. Click New in the upper left corner
   4. Select the Microsoft Exchange, POP3, IMAP, or HTTP
   5. Click Next in the bottom right corner
   6. Enter the details in each field on the screen
       
      Your Name: This is how you want your name to appear in emails
      E-Mail Address: this is your full email address
      Password: Enter in the password for this specific email account
      Re-Type Password: Enter the same password as above
      
      
   7. Check the box next to the option to Manually configure server settings or additional server types and click Next in the bottom right corner
   8. Click Next on the next screen displayed to start configuring your server settings
   9. Fill in the fields on the screen
      Account Type: Select POP3 or IMAP if you are not sure of the difference please see our article on POP3 vs. IMAP
      Incoming Mail Server: enter mail.example.com (be sure to replace example.com with your actual domain name)
      Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): enter mail.example.com (be sure to replace example.com with your actual domain name)
      User Name: Enter in the full email address
      Password: Enter in the password for that specific email address
   10. Check the box next to Remember Password
       
   11. Click More Settings in the bottom right corner
       On the General Tab give your email account a name such as work
   12. Go to the Outgoing Server Tab and make sure to check the box next to the option My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication and be sure the radio button is checked next to Use same settings as my incoming mail server
   13. Click on the Connection tab and select the type of internet connect you are using. Then click OK on the bottom right of the popup (most customers do not need to do this step)
   14. Click Next and then click Finish to complete the email account set up

Your email account set up is complete.