CPanel Setup Information

This tutorial shows you how to set up an email account within your CPanel Control Panel and also notes what information you will need to login to the control panel and where to find it. To Set Up Your E-mail Account follow the steps below.

To make things easier, we have a Video Tutorial for this guide, see: CPanel Email Video Tutorial

1. In Internet Explorer or your prefered browser, navigate to the following address:

http://www.yourdomainname.com/cpanel

2. Press the "return" key on your keyboard to go the address, you will then be promoted with a login box asking for a username and password to access the control panel. These details were given to you when you signed up, they are generally 8 characters long. They are the same login details as your FTP client uses if you are having trouble. If you cant login or find your login information, call us on 08456 120 330 or email support@namehog.net and we will reset your password for you.

3. Set the following in the "Add a New Email Account" section:

E-mail - Enter the name of the email account you want to create. This will be the username such as info@domain.com. Select the domain you want to use for the email account from the drop down menu.
Password - Enter the password you want to use for the new email account.
Mailbox quota (optional) - Enter the amount in megabytes you want set for the amount of disk space allocated to the new email account.

4. Click on the Create button.

5. You will see the following confirmation:

"The e-mail account EMAIL_ACCOUNT with the login USERNAME+DOMAIN_NAME and password PASSWORD with a quota of MEGABYTES Megabytes was successfully created."
Please DO NOT use the + sign in any email setup.

6. Click on the Go Back link.

7. You should now see your new email account in the four-column "Current Accounts" table, listed under the "Account" column. The "Current Accounts" table provides the following information:

Account - The email accounts and their associated email addresses you have created.
Access Webmail - You can directly access the associated email account via the available web based email clients.
Usage - This entry shows you how much disk space the associated email has used.
Functions - The drop down menu provides several options for managing the associated email account as shown below:
- Delete - This option will delete the associated email account.
- Change Quota - This will allow you to change the amount of disk space allocated to the associated email account.
- Change Password - This will allow you to change the password of the associated email account.
- Configure Mail Client - This will allow you to automatically configure your desktop mail client using the associated email account information, login, password and email address, we recommend that you DO NOT use this facility as its not 100% accurate to all installation

8. Please go to the Email Setup Guides page to configure your mail client.

Questions
Any questions concerning this guide may be directed by e-mail to support@namehog.net