cPanel Flash Tutorial: How to add an Email Account?
This cPanel Flash Tutorial will show you how to add email accounts. The "Mail" section of cPanel is often one of the most used sections. It can be used to add or delete email accounts on a domain name. By clicking on "Add / Remove / Manage accounts" in the "Mail" area, the first thing a user will see is a list of all the Email accounts present on their account, starting with the email address, then the login name for that email address followed by a few other options.
Steps
View Video Tutorial- To set up e-mail accounts in cPanel you first need to log in to your control panel.
- After logging in, click on the "Mail" icon on the main page.
- Click on the "Add / Remove / Manage Accounts" link in the mail area.
- At the bottom of the page click on the "Add Account" link.
- Enter the first part of the email address and also the password for the account in email and password fields.
- Enter the maximum size limit allowed for this mailbox in the quota field. The size limit is in megabytes. Not entering a number means that the mailbox size is only limited by the total available disk space of the account..
- Click on the create button. Success message indicates that your new account has been added.
cPanel Flash Tutorial: How to delete an Email Account?
This cPanel Flash Tutorial will show you how to delete an email account. You should delete an email account when the account is no longer required. You can remove any added email accounts to your main account but you cannot delete the default email account for the main cPanel user.
Make sure that you have downloaded any mail that is in your existing mail box, since deleting the account will delete all of the mail that still is in that account. You can not recover once the account has been deleted.
Steps
- To delete email accounts in cPanel you first need to log in to your control panel.
- Then click on the "Mail" icon.
- Now click on the "Add / Remove / Manage Accounts" link to see a list of your existing email accounts.
- Locate the account you wish to remove and click on "Delete" button next to it.
- The next screen will ask you to confirm deletion. If you are sure you would like to delete the email account, then click on the "Yes" button. You will see a confirmation message that the email has been successfully removed.
