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Microsoft Outlook is a personal information manager from Microsoft, and is part of the Microsoft Office suite. Although often used mainly as an e-mail application, it also provides a calendar, task and contact management, note taking, and a journal. This tutorial covers the configuration of Outlook to access your emails from your hosting account
What you will Need
1:- A valid email account, if you haven't created an email account yet please log into your Control Panel and set up an email account.
2:- An email client. This tutorial uses Outlook, which is part of Microsoft Office. Step 1
When you first start Outlook, you see a folder list on the left and a message or contents list on the right. For example, if I wished to work with my contacts I would click on the contacts button on the left and it would appear on the right ready for me to make changes.
To setup your POP email account we will need to be in a different area of the program. Click "Tools" to open the next window.  Step 2
Once you click on "Tools" a menu drops down. Look for "Accounts" in this menu. If you have an older version of Outlook you may have an entry for "Services" instead. This tutorial does not cover how to setup those versions of Outlook. Most likely you will see "Accounts" in the list. 
Step 3
You are now in the Internet Accounts dialogue box. On the right you will see an "Add" button. Click it and a small option box will pop up as pictured below. One of the options in this box is "Mail." Notice that there is also a tab labeled "Mail." We are looking for the entry in the option box, not the tab. 
Step 4
You are now in the Internet Connection Wizard. Enter your name in the blank provided. Whatever you type here will appear in the "from" line of every message you send with this account. 
Step 5
This is the second screen of the Connection Wizard. Enter your email address in the space provided. 
Step 6
This is the third screen of the Connection Wizard. This is where you type the name for your incoming server. If I owned johnsmith.com and setup email accounts for it, the name of my incoming mail server would be mail.johnsmith.com. Just add "mail." to the front of your domain name..
Then enter the outgoing mail server in the second blank. This is the outgoing mail server for your ISP, ie if you are with Optus your outgoing mail server would be mail.optusnet.com.au. 
Step 7
Here you enter your account name and password. Note your account name is your full email address 
Step 8 If you would like Outlook to dial out to the Internet on its own choose the first option. If you are on a LAN choose the second. Select the third option if you do not want Outlook to try to connect on its own. 
Step 9 We have now entered everything Outlook will need to check your email account. It is now included in the list 
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