How to set up Microsoft Mail

This article demonstrates how to set up the Microsoft Mail client to access an A2 Hosting e-mail account.

To configure Microsoft Mail to work with your A2 Hosting e-mail account, follow these steps:

1. Make sure you have already created at least one e-mail account for your domain. If you have not done this, please see this article to learn how to create an e-mail account using cPanel.
2. Start Mail.
3. Click Accounts, and then in the Manage Accounts sidebar, click Add account:

   

   The user interface displayed in these images may differ slightly from the version you have installed.

4. In the Choose an account dialog box, scroll down, and then click Advanced setup:
   

   

5. In the Advanced setup dialog box, click Internet email:
   

   

6. In the Internet email account dialog box, in the Account name text box, type a descriptive name for the account. The name can be anything you want:
   

   

7. In the Your name text box, type the name you want to appear on messages you send.

8. In the Incoming email server text box, type either mail.example.com, where example.com represents your domain name, or the A2 Hosting server name for your account.
   

   For information about how to determine your account's server name, please see this article.

9. In the Account type list box, select the type of incoming mail server that you want to use:
   

   • If you want to use POP, select POP3.
   • If you want to use IMAP, select IMAP4.
10. In the Email address text box, type the e-mail address of the account you created in cPanel.
11. In the User name text box, type the e-mail address of the account you created in cPanel.
12. In the Password text box, type the password for the e-mail account you created in cPanel.

13. In the Outgoing (SMTP) email server text box, type either mail.example.com, where example.com represents your domain name, or the A2 Hosting server name for your account.
    

    For information about how to determine your account's server name, please see this article.

14. Confirm that all of the following check boxes are selected:
    

    • Outgoing server requires authentication
    • Use the same user name and password for sending email
    • Require SSL for incoming email
    • Require SSL for outgoing email
15. Click Sign in. When Mail finishes configuring the account, the All done! Your account was set up successfully message appears.

16. Click Done, and then click the refresh icon:
    

    

    Mail downloads the messages in the account.