How to Add Your Work Email to Outlook on Your Laptop

Purpose

This guide helps you add your business email to Microsoft Outlook on your laptop.

What You Need

Before you start, make sure you have:

• Your full email address
• Your email password
• Incoming mail server
• Outgoing mail server
• IMAP/SMTP port settings

Example email:

info@yourdomain.co.ke

Steps

1. Open Microsoft Outlook on your laptop.
2. Click File.
3. Click Add Account.
4. Enter your full work email address.
5. Click Connect.
6. Select IMAP.
7. Enter the incoming mail server details.

Example:

mail.yourdomain.co.ke

8. Enter the outgoing mail server details.

Example:

mail.yourdomain.co.ke

9. Confirm the port settings.

Recommended settings:

• Incoming IMAP Port: 993
• Encryption: SSL/TLS
• Outgoing SMTP Port: 465 or 587
• Encryption: SSL/TLS or STARTTLS

10. Enter your email password.
11. Click Connect.
12. Wait for Outlook to complete the setup.
13. Click Done.

Important Notes

Use your full email address as the username.

Example:

info@yourdomain.co.ke

Do not use only info.

If the setup fails, confirm that the password is correct.

Also confirm that the email account exists in cPanel.

Need Help?

Contact support if you need help with your mail server settings or password r