Setting up Email account in Microsoft Outlook 2010 or Later versions
- After creating a new Outlook account, go to the File tab and click Account Settings; choose Account Settings from the drop-down menu:
- Click New in the Email tab:
- Select E-Mail Account and enter your information:
E-Mail Address - your full Private Email address
- Password - password for your Private Email account
- Once all the fields are completed, click Next. Disregard any warnings that appear and proceed to the next step.
If you are not able to proceed, you may need to repeat the setup process. You can also try to set up the account manually. To manually set up your email account in Outlook, complete steps 1 and 2 (above), then follow the instructions below:
1. Choose Manually configure server settings or additional server types option and click Next:
- Choose Internet E-mail and click Next:
- Enter/select the following information:
Your Name: the name of your account in Outlook
E-mail Address: your Namecheap Private Email email address
Account Type: select IMAP or POP3 from the drop-down menu
User Name: your full Namecheap Private Email email address
Password: the password for this email account
Require logon using Secure Password Authentication (SPA): should be unchecked
- For Settings on POP3 configuration Click Here
- For Settings on IMAP configuration Click Here
- Then click More Settings:
- Go to the Outgoing Server tab and select My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication:
- Go to the Advanced tab and enter the following Server Port numbers
- For Port Numbers on POP3 configuration Click Here
- For Port Numbers on IMAP configuration Click Here
- Click OK to return to the main window.
- Click Test Account Settings. If the submitted information is correct, the Status column will display Completed:
- If the test was successful, click Close to return to the previous window, then click Next to finish the setup.
- Restart outlook and check the status