How To Create An Email Account In cPanel
In this tutorial you will learn how to create an email address for your domain name (e.g. support@mydomain.com), and how to forward emails from your domain name to another email address.
You will need to have a webhosting account with cPanel already set up for this tutorial. To learn how to set up a webhosting account, see this tutorial: How To Set Up a Webhosting Account.
How To Create An Email Account In cPanel: Step-By-Step Tutorial
Please note: Newer versions of cPanel and different webhosting settings may cause the application to look different than the version shown in the tutorials below. All the features, however, should work just as described below.
Log into your cPanel account …
Go to the Mail section and click on “Email Accounts” …
The Email Accounts window opens up in your browser. From here you will be able to manage all of your email account functions for your domain …
To create a new email associated with your domain, enter the following information into the Email Accounts fields as shown below:
- Email: Enter only the prefix here (i.e. the part before the “@”) – e.g. “info”, support”, “sales”, “bob”, “mary_smith”, etc…
- Password: Enter your password here
- Password (again): Confirm your password
- Strength: Enter a “Very Strong” password here for security reasons.
- Mailbox Quota: This Depending on your hosting set up, you may be able to
Click on Save when finished to create your new email account …
As mentioned above, you should aim to create a very strong password to any prevent security issues with your email. cPanel offers a Password Generator feature (see “4″ in the above screenshot). We recommend using this feature to create secure passwords …
Once your email account has been created, it will be listed under the Account @ Domain section …
The Domain @ Account section provides access to information about your email account and a number of email management functions, including:
- Your email address(es): This area will list all of the email addresses you set up for your domain. Emails listed in this section can be set up as separate POP3 email accounts in your email client (e.g. MS Outlook), or forwarded to other email addresses (see tutorial section below on “How To Set Up Email Forwarding In cPanel”)
- Change Password feature: Use this section to change your email password
- Change Quota: Use this to increase or decrease your alloted mailbox space (depending on your server and account settings).
- Delete: Click Delete to delete any email addresses you no longer need or use.
- More: This section allows you to access additional functions associated with your email address (e.g. webmail).
You can add as many email addresses to your domain name as your webhosting account will allow you to use (e.g. 1, 5, 15, unlimited, etc …). We recommend adding email prefixes for your staff and departments, e.g. “info”, “support”, “sales”, “bob”, “mary_smith”, “bjones”, etc …
Business Tip: Even if you are just a “one-person” operation (e.g. a work-from-home blogger), we recommend setting up emails for all of the separate “departments” or areas you can envision your business expanding to later. Doing this at the early stages of your business can be useful later on. For example, forwarding emails coming to a particular email address you have already established throughout your site, business cards, stationery, etc … (e.g. “info”, “sales”, support”, etc …) to a staff member or outsourced service provider.
When you are done creating email addresses, click “Home” at the top of the screen to return to the main cPanel admin section …
How To Set Up Email Forwarding In cPanel
If you would like to have emails from any of the email accounts you have created forwarded to an existing email address (either yours or someone else’s), then here’s how to do it …
In the Mail section of your cPanel admin area, click on Forwarders …
Click Add Forwarders to set up an email forwarding account …
Enter the prefix of the email you want to forward in Address to Forward: (1) and the destination email address in the Forward to email address: field (2).
Click the Add Forwarder button when finished to save your settings …
All email sent to the address you have just set up for forwarding will now be sent to the destination email address you have specified in your Forwarder account.
- If you no longer need emails to be forwarded to another email address, you can cancel any accounts you have set up by going back into the Forwarders section and clicking the Delete link associated with the email account you no longer want forwarding to be applied to.
- In addition to forwarding individual mail accounts, you can also forward all email from one domain to another in this section using the Domain Forwarder feature, and access the Default Address page if you want all emails sent to any unspecified email addresses on your domain to be sent to a particular destination, or to a “black hole”.
