Delete

To delete an email address, perform the following steps:

1. Click Delete for the account to remove.


2. Click Delete. To retain the email address, click cancel.

Access Webmail

This feature allows you to access an email account with a web browser. To access this feature, perform the following steps:

1. Click More for the appropriate email account.


2. Select Access Webmail.


3. Enter the password in the appropriate text box.


4. Click Log in.

 Set Up Email Client

This feature automatically configures your email client to access your cPanel email addresses. An email client allows you to access your email account from an application on your computer (for example, Outlook® Express and Apple® Mail).

To access this feature, click More for the appropriate email account, and then select Set Up Email Client.

Notes:

• An email client must already exist on your computer to automatically configure it with cPanel.


• To use an email client that the interface does not list, you must manually configure it. For more information on how to manually configure an email client, review your client's documentation on the client's website.

To configure your mail client, perform the following steps:

1. Select and download the appropriate configuration file from the list.


2. Run the script file to automatically configure your email client to use the selected address.

When the configuration process finishes, your email client opens automatically and logs in to your email account.

Notes about email client configuration

• If you installed a non-wildcard SSL certificate that matches your hostname, the name of your server matches your hostname. For example, if your hostname is www.example.com and your SSL certificate matches your hostname, your server's name is www.example.com.


• If you installed a wildcard SSL certificate, the name of your server also matches any subdomains that correspond to the hostname's domain. For example, an SSL certificate for *.example.com is valid for my.example.com and foo.example.com.


• If you did not install an SSL certificate, the server uses the mail subdomain of your domain. For example, mail.example.com. Also, if your certificate does not match your hostname, the server's name is mail.example.com.

Email Instructions

To send a mail account's client configuration instructions to a different email address, enter the address in the Email Instructions text box and click Send.

Email subaddresses

This feature, also known as plus addressing, allows senders to route a message directly to the folder of a mailbox.

Email subaddresses use the username+folder@domain format, where username represents the username of the mailbox and folder represents the folder's name.

For example, if you send a message to username+Important@example.com, the mail server will route the message to the Important folder in the username@example.com mailbox.

Notes:

• If the folder does not already exist, the system will create that folder.


• You must subscribe to the folder in your email or webmail client for the folder to appear.

Default email account

Your default email address appears under the Default Email Account heading. The system creates this special email account when your hosting provider creates your cPanel account. The account's username and password are identical to your cPanel account name and password.

• If your hosting provider configures this address to serve as a catch-all address for all mail that invalid usernames in your domain receive, it may receive a large amount of spam.


• You can check and delete the mail that this account receives. To do this through webmail, click Access Webmail and select your desired webmail application.


• You can also use this account to send mail. To do this through webmail, click Access Webmailand select your desired webmail application.

The actual address of the account is account@example.com, where account represents your account username. You cannot rename, delete, or place a quota on the default account. We recommend that you create a separate email account for daily use.

This address is also the default From and Reply-to address of outgoing email that your account's PHP scripts send.

Note:

If the default email account uses the Maildir mailbox format, the system applies any user-created email accounts to the main cPanel account's disk space quota. For more information about mailbox formats, read our Mailbox Conversion documentation.