How to set up your e-mail in Outlook 2007

Outlook 2007 no longer receives updates from Microsoft, so setup is entirely manual — there is no automatic detection on this version.

Setting it up

1 Open Outlook, go to Tools → Account Settings, select your account (or click New... for a first-time setup) and click Change....
2 Fill in your name, e-mail address, account type IMAP if available in your version (otherwise POP3), and the server settings:
Setting Incoming (IMAP) Outgoing (SMTP)
Server mail.yourdomain.com — replace with your own domain
Port 993 465
Security SSL/TLS SSL/TLS
If port 465 does not work: use 587 with STARTTLS for the outgoing server. Some mobile carriers and corporate networks block 465, and Outlook reports 0x80042109. Port 587 does the same job and usually gets through.

Username: your full e-mail address — Password: the mailbox password you set in cPanel (not your portal or cPanel password).

3 Click More Settings... → Outgoing Server tab and tick My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication.
4 On the Advanced tab, set the incoming port to 993 (IMAP) or 995 (POP3) with encryption SSL, and the outgoing port to 465 with encryption SSL, then OK.
5 Click Next to test the account, then Finish.
This version is over 15 years old. Some Windows updates weaken its ability to negotiate modern encryption, which can cause the connection test to fail intermittently even with correct settings. If that happens, upgrading to a supported Outlook version is the more reliable fix — see the new Outlook for Windows.

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SEE ALSO

If an error code shows up: Common Outlook errors: 0x800CCC0E, password prompts and more.

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