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How to create an e-mail address associated to your domain name?
Posted by - NA - on 24 June 2009 09:12 AM
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To set up an e-mail account for ANY domain follow these steps: 1) Log into your CPanel 2) Click on the mail icon 3) The first option is List/Add/Remove POP Email Accounts, select this option 4) At the bottom of this is ADD ACCOUNT, click here 5) this will bring you to a screen that askes for an e-mail name with a drop down list ie (somename@any_domain_you_chose.com) 6) select the domain you want the e-mail assoicated with 7) select a password for this account (This will be associated only with this account) 8) select the quota or leave at 10 meg default. 9) Click on create After the e-mail account is created you can repeat steps 3 - 9 After you have all the accounts set up you can check them 1 of 2 ways: 1) Outlook / Outlook Express a) Open Outlook express b) Create an account under tool -> Accounts -> new -> Mail c) Follow wizard d) when asked for pop and SMTP they are mail.YOURDOMAN.com for both Incoming and Outgoing *YOURDOMAIN* = whatever the MAIN domain is of the account e) Username is the SAME as the e-mail address (i.e. name@domain.com) the whole thing not just the name f) Click finish, if you get an SMTP error try using your ISP's SMTP server name 2) Webmail a) Using a Web Browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Mozilla, etc) go to www.yourdomain.com/webmail (again the domain is your MAIN account not addon domains) b) a log-in box will pop up, the username is the e-mail account you want to check with the password for THAT e-mail account c) Chose 1 of 3 optoins for reading mail, they are all the same mail just a diffrent look and feel *Note: If you still recieve errors, switch the outgoing SMTP port from 25 to 26. | |
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