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# Setting up Proton to access your e-mail account

> This article provides step-by-step instructions for setting up Proton webmail to access an hosting.com e-mail account.

This article demonstrates how to set up Proton webmail to access a hosting.com e-mail account and import its messages.

<Warning>
  **Important**

  You can only use Proton to import **incoming** messages to a hosting.com e-mail account. You cannot use Proton to send **outgoing** messages for a hosting.com e-mail account.
</Warning>

To set up Proton to access a 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. Log in to the Proton account.

3. At the top of the page, click **Settings** and then click **Go to settings**:\
   ![](https://static.hosting.com/kb/kb-email-proton-settings-menu.png)

4. In the left sidebar, click **Import via Easy Switch**:\
   ![](https://static.hosting.com/kb/kb-email-proton-sidebar-import.png)

5. On the **Import via Easy Switch** page, under **Start new import**, click **Other**:\
   ![](https://static.hosting.com/kb/kb-email-proton-import-other.png)

6. Under **What would you like to import?**, click **Emails**:\
   ![](https://static.hosting.com/kb/kb-email-proton-import-emails.png)

   > 👍 Tip
   >
   > You can only import one data type at a time. After you import email messages from a hosting.com account, you can repeat these steps to import its contacts.

7. Click **Continue**:\
   ![](https://static.hosting.com/kb/kb-email-proton-import-continue.png)

8. Under **Start a new import**, in the **Email** text box, type the hosting.com e-mail address that you want to access from Proton (for example,[*user@example.com*](mailto:_user@example.com_) ):\
   ![](https://static.hosting.com/kb/kb-email-proton-import-form.png)

9. In the **Password** text box, type the password for the hosting.com account.

10. In the **Mail Server (IMAP)** text box, type *mail.example.com*, where ***example.com*** represents your domain name.

11. In the **Port** text box, type `993`.

12. Click **Next**. The **Start import process** dialog appears:\
    ![](https://static.hosting.com/kb/kb-email-proton-import-start-import.png)

13. If you want to change the import options, click **Customize import**. You can change the following options:

    * The name of the label to assign to imported messages.

    * How far back in time to import messages. (You can also import all messages for the account).

    * Which folders to import.

14. Click **Start import**. Proton starts the import process. Under **Your import history**, you can monitor the import progress, or click **Cancel** to stop the import.

15. Proton sends you a message when the import process is complete. The imported messages appear in your Proton inbox (or whichever folders you selected to import).

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