Before starting, you will need to create an email account in cPanel if one does not already exist.
Here are the steps required for setting up a new email account in Microsoft Outlook 2013/2016.
Open Microsoft Outlook
From the toolbar, click File
Click Account Settings, and then Account Settings
On the E-mail tab, click New
Select Manually configure server settings.. or Manual setup or additional server types and Next
** If you do not see these options, please close the window that opened up and jump to [method 2]
Select Internet E-mail and click Next
Complete the settings as follows:
| Your name | The name you would like other people to see when they receive emails from you |
| Email address | Your full email address, e.g. name@yourdomain.com |
| Account type |
If you are only planning to check this email address this computer, select POP3. If you're not sure, use IMAP. |
| Incoming mail server | Use mail.yourdomain.com (replace yourdomain.com with your domain name) |
| Outgoing mail server | Use mail.yourdomain.com (replace yourdomain.com with your domain name) |
| User name | Your full email address, e.g. name@yourdomain.com |
| Password | The password you used when creating the email in cPanel |
| Remember password | It is recommended to leave this option ticked |
Click More Settings
On the Outgoing Server tab, click My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication and Use same settings as my incoming mail server
On the Advanced tab, enable This server requires an encrypted connection and ensure that the Incoming server port is either 995 (if you used POP3) or 993 (if you used IMAP)
Under Outgoing server, ensure that Use the following type of encrypted connection is set to SSL, and that the port is 465.
Click OK, Next, Finish
