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# Setting up Microsoft Mail

> Learn how to set up Microsoft Mail to access an hosting.com e-mail account.

This article demonstrates how to set up the Microsoft Mail client to access a hosting.com e-mail account.

<Warning>
  **Important**

  This article describes how to set up the version of Mail included with Windows 10. Older Mail versions on other Windows versions may have user interface differences, but the general steps are the same.
</Warning>

To configure Microsoft Mail to work with your hosting.com 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](/docs/e-mail-accounts) 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**:\
   ![](https://static.hosting.com/kb/kb-microsoft-mail-manage-accounts.png)

   > 📘 Note
   >
   > 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**:\
   ![](https://static.hosting.com/kb/kb-microsoft-mail-advanced-setup.png)

5. In the **Advanced setup** dialog box, click **Internet email**:\
   ![](https://static.hosting.com/kb/kb-microsoft-mail-advanced-setup-internet-email.png)

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:\
   ![](https://static.hosting.com/kb/kb-microsoft-mail-internet-email-acct-dialog-box.png)

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 hosting.com server name for your account.

   > 📘 Note
   >
   > For information about how to determine your account's server name, please see [this article](/docs/determining-your-accounts-server-name).

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 hosting.com server name for your account.

    > 📘 Note
    >
    > For information about how to determine your account's server name, please see [this article](/docs/determining-your-accounts-server-name).

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:\
    ![](https://static.hosting.com/kb/kb-microsoft-mail-refresh-icon.png)

    Mail downloads the messages in the account.

## Related articles

* [Introduction to e-mail protocols](/docs/introduction-to-e-mail-protocols)

* [Accessing e-mail accounts with client applications](/docs/accessing-e-mail-accounts-with-client-applications)

* [Troubleshooting e-mail accounts](/docs/troubleshooting-e-mail-accounts)