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 From your
cPanel
main page (http://yourdomain.com/cpanel/),
you can fully administer all email functions from the 'Mail'
section, including Email Accounts (Delete, Change Quota,
Change Password, Configure, Web Mail, Forwarding,
Autoresponders, Mailing Lists, MX mail domain changes, and Filtering.
Not all
important information
is included in the cPanel instructions, so you may want to keep
this page handy. |
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Setting Up Email Accounts |
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Creating your own email accounts is easy, but it's important
that you read all the information presented here. While
setting up email accounts you may notice on cPanel that your
domain already has a listing for a default mail account
named
Main Account. This catch-all mail account has been
disabled and must remain disabled, because it causes spam to
accumulate on the server, slowing down your website's
operation. Therefore, you must create one or more
of your own email
accounts. To do so, simply:
- Click Email Accounts in the Mail Section
- Create a new account by filling in the
fields shown.
- Modify an existing account listed below
the Add Account section.
If you plan on receiving and reading your email in a separate program
such as Microsoft Outlook (rather than through cPanel), you also will need to set up your
newly created mail
account in that program. When doing so, use the complete email address as your username. For example, if you create a
new account in cPanel named 'john,' the login username that you set up
in Outlook will be 'john@yourdomain.com (not just
'john'). Go here for more
information on setting up accounts in Outlook and other
email programs.
Do NOT set up multiple, separate accounts if multiple
email addresses go to one person. INSTEAD... use a
'Forwarder' for additional addresses (see
Setting Up Email
Forwarders below). That way you don't have to set up
multiple accounts in your Outlook, AND you don't have to
open up different accounts in your browser to view email
in Squirrel Mail.
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Setting Up Email Forwarders |
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Forwarding is an email service in which your email is automatically
sent (forwarded) from one or more email addresses to another
specified email address. To create a forwarder:
- Click
Forwarders in the Mail Section
- You can add a forwarder of one email address
to another (eg: forward you@yourdomain.com to
you@hotmail.com
- If you have more than one email address you
want to forward, you can add a forwarder to have
all mail from a particular domain name forward (eg:
forward yourdomain.com to you@hotmail.com.
IMPORTANT: NEVER create a Forwarder with the same name
as any of your actual email accounts in cPanel (unless you
actually go into your webmail on a regular basis,
and plan on deleting the emails from there as well
as from the forwarded account). Normally,
when you use Outlook, it will delete the emails from your
server once you've "Received Mail." But if you have both a
Forward and an Email Account with the same name, email will
build up in cPanel Webmail and never get deleted. You will
run out of disk space and slow your email and website.
There are two ways to use Forwarders:
- Multiple Email Addresses Going to One Person
If you have multiple emails that need to come to you (e.g.
sales@yourdomain.com and
john@yourdomain.com),
you do NOT need to set up separate email accounts
for both. Instead set up one email account, e.g.
john@yourdomain.com,
and then set up a forwarder for the other, e.g.
sales@yourdomain.com that forwards to
john@yourdomain.com.
- Forwarding Email From One Host Server to
Another
example: bob@yourdomain.ext
is forwarded to another email account set up at AOL,
e.g.
bob@aol.com.
Important: When
creating forwarders, DO NOT also create
a separate email account with that same name. ONLY do one
or the other.
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Setting Up Send/Receive Mail |
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Go here for options on sending and receiving email from either your local PC or
from the Web. Please keep in mind that our mailing
list feature is technically very basic. If you require a more powerful listserv program, you
should probably look elsewhere. We cannot utilize a robust
listserv on our web hosting machines without causing the
server's overall performance to suffer.
Mail access for your domain won't be available until you
point your domain name to our nameservers. |
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