{"id":48,"date":"2025-10-27T09:42:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T09:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/kb\/email-settings-for-cpanel-based-hosting\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T09:49:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T09:49:51","slug":"email-settings-for-cpanel-based-hosting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/email-settings-for-cpanel-based-hosting\/","title":{"rendered":"Email settings for cPanel-based hosting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In almost all cases, we recommend using the <strong>account type<\/strong> of<strong> Other\/IMAP<\/strong> when adding an email account to your PC, Mac or phone\/tablet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re having trouble sending\/receiving, please double check that your settings align with the below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Incoming settings<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Replace <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">yourdomain.com<\/span> with your actual domain, or email address.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">IMAP (recommended)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Server address:<\/strong> mail.<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">yourdomain.com<\/span><br><strong>Username:<\/strong> name@<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">yourdomain.com<\/span><br><strong>Password:<\/strong> Your email account password<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Port:<\/strong> 993<br><strong>SSL\/Secure:<\/strong> Enabled\/Checked<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Insecure port 143 is not supported. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">POP<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>You should only use these settings if you already have the account setup as POP on your device<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Server address:<\/strong> mail.<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">yourdomain.com<\/span><br><strong>Username:<\/strong> name@<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">yourdomain.com<\/span><br><strong>Password:<\/strong> Your email account password<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Port:<\/strong> 995<br><strong>SSL\/Secure:<\/strong> Enabled\/Checked<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Insecure port 110 is not supported. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Outgoing settings (SMTP)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Many devices will show the outgoing settings or username\/password as optional, but this is <strong>not<\/strong> the case. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Server address:<\/strong> mail.<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">yourdomain.com<\/span><br><strong>Username:<\/strong> name@<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">yourdomain.com<\/span><br><strong>Password:<\/strong> Your email account password<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Port:<\/strong> 465<br><strong>SSL\/Secure:<\/strong> Enabled\/Checked<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Insecure port 25 is not supported. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In almost all cases, we recommend using the account type of Other\/IMAP when adding an email account to your PC, Mac or phone\/tablet. If you&#8217;re having trouble sending\/receiving, please double check that your settings align with the below. Incoming settings Replace yourdomain.com with your actual domain, or email address. IMAP&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cpanel","category-email"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49,"href":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}