How to Setup an Email Address in cPanel

If you own a website on the internet today, your control panel is most likely cPanel, as it has been recorded as the most common web hosting control panel used by hosting companies in today’s society. Now that you have your new web hosting package setup and are in your cPanel control panel, how exactly do you add an email address?

Instructions

1. Inside your control panel, click the E-Mail Accounts icon located on the far left of the second row.
2. Next, click the “Add a New Email Account”
   • E-Mail: Enter the name of the email account you wish to create. This will be the user name - i.e. username@domain.com. Select the domain you wish to use for the email account in the drop down menu.
   • Password: Enter the password you wish to use for your new email account.
   • Mailbox Quota: This is the amount of space you want to assign to this specific email account. Disk space is allocated in Megabytes.
3. Now, click the “Create” button.
4. Finally, you will see the following confirmation to notify you that your account was successfully created: “The email account email_account with the login username+domain and the password password with a quota of megabytes was successfully created.”
5. After this is complete, click the Go Back button. You should see your new email account in the four column “Current Accounts” table, listed under the “Account” column. The “Current Accounts” table provides this information:
   • Account: The email accounts and email addresses you have created
   • Access Webmail: You may click this button to open your webmail client and check your email
   • Usage: The amount of disk space (quota) you have used as well as how much is allocated for that account.
   • Functions: Options for managing your email accounts. For example:
     • Delete
     • Change Quota
     • Change Password
     • Configure Mail Client

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