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 In this tutorial please substitute all instances of "yourdomain.com" with the domain name used for your account! Also replace "your password" with your chosen password and "myemailname" with your actual email address name.

First you will need to create your email account within your cpanel located at http://www.yourdomain.com/cpanel with the email address and password of your choosing. When deciding on the email quota, remember to make it only as large as you need it as it uses the disk space for your account. Do Not use the configure Outlook option as it is for Outlook Express!

In Outlook select “Tools” and “Accounts” select the “Mail Tab” and add account… Mail

Fill in “Your Name” with any name you want. This is what will be displayed in the "from" line when someone receives an email from this address.

Enter the full email address you created in cpanel earlier 

Use Pop3 (default)

Replace both instances of for the incoming and outgoing mail servers with mail.yourdomain.com remembering to replace yourdomain.com with your actual domain name for your account.

Important Note:

Some Internet providers block outgoing mail to a 3^rd party server. They require you to use their own server.  If you are unable to send mail with the above settings you should contact your Internet provider to find out what their SMTP server address is and replace the “Outgoing mail (SMTP) server” settings above with theirs.  It you already use outlook for an Outlook email account with them you can use the same settings for Outgoing mail (SMTP) server  

• Set your Account name to  your new email address you set up in the Cpanel

• Password is the password you set up in the Cpanel for this email.

• Log on using secure Password Authentication (SPN) should not be checked

• The connection screen is specific to your PC make sure it is set to the way you connect to the Internet.  

• Once you have created the account you can check the settings with the Properties tag.

• You should see a advanced tab page similar to below

• The rest of this article is being completed. You will need to check the box under additional settings that states "My outgoing server requires authentication.
  

Make sure the Delivery (leave a copy on server) is NOT checked. Otherwise you will leave a copy of all emails on the server that you will need to cleanup from webmail to stop you server mailbox from filling up.

If you have more than one email account.  You should set the default address to the one you wish to send from.

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