To configure your Microsoft Outlook application on macOS to send and receive email using our servers via POP3 and SMTP over SSL/TLS, follow the steps below.

Before You Start:

  • Email Address: Replace username@example.com with your actual email address.
  • Server Host: Replace mail.your-server.com with your server's host name (listed in your Control Panel). For example, if your server is s777.sureserver.com, your Server Host would be mail.s777.sureserver.com.

1. Open Microsoft Outlook

  • If you don't have any accounts set up already, you will be taken to the new account screen by default. Otherwise, select Tools > Accounts from the menu bar.

Add Account

  • Click on the + button at the bottom left of the page > Add Account.

Add Account

2. Create the account

  • Enter your email address and click Continue.

Enter email address

  • Click Not IMAP? in the upper-right corner of the next screen:

Not IMAP

  • Choose POP at the next screen:

Choose POP

3. Configure the Account

On the next screen, click Advanced Settings and fill in the following details:

  • Email Address: (will be prefilled)

  • POP Username: username@example.com (replace with your actual address)
  • POP Password: your password
  • POP Incoming Server: mail.your-server.com (replace with your server name)
  • POP Port: 995
  • Use SSL to connect: (recommended)
  • SMTP Username: username@example.com (replace with your actual address)
  • SMTP Password: your password
  • SMTP Outgoing Server: mail.your-server.com (replace with your server name)
  • SMTP Port: 465
  • Use SSL to connect: (recommended)

Server Settings

4. Finish.

Once all steps have been completed successfully, you should get the "POP account has been added" confirmation.

POP account has been added

Click Done. Your Outlook application is now configured! 

AttentionYou may miss some e-mail messages if you use POP3 to access a mailbox that has SpamAssassin enabled for it. Please read our Possible issues when using POP3 and SpamAssassin article for more information.