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How do I login to CPanel?
In order to login to CPanel for your domain type http://yourdomain.com/cpanel or
https://youripaddess:2083/
in the address bar of your browser. An SSL certificate warning will pop up. Click Yes. Now, a login box will pop up. Enter the CPanel username/password you were given upon signing up. From there it will log you in to CPanel and you may edit your domains settings.
How do I install webmail in CPanel?
*This article assumes you are already logged into CPanel.*
You will see several icons on the main page of CPanel. At the top left there is an icon named Mail. Click on that.
Now, in the next screen you will see several choices. At the top there is a link named Webmail. Click on that. This screen gives you 3 choices to choose from.
Neomail, Horde and Squirrelmail. Choose which one you want and click on it. An install process will ensue. At the end you will be taken to the webmail page for your site and will be able to
login.
How do I add an email account in CPanel?
*This article assumes you are already logged into CPanel.*
You will see several icons on the main page of CPanel. At the top left there is an icon named Mail. Click on that.
Now, in the next screen you will see several choices. The 2nd link down is named Add/Remove Accounts. Click on that.
In this screen you will see a link at the bottom that says Add Account. Click on that. You will be taken to another screen with several options. The options
are:
Email:
Password:
Quota:
For email, choose the suffix that will come before the @domain.com. If you want to make the email account for a subdomain, on the right of the Email section
click the drop down box and select the subdomain. Otherwise, move on.
The password box is where you will input the password for this email account. You should always use a combination of letters and numbers to make your
passwords more secure.
The quota section is where you will set how much diskspace this email account is allowed. The default is 10 mb and you can leave it at that or adjust it to
however much you want.
Now, click Create at the bottom of the page and it will take you to another screen that has all the information for the email account and how to login. Your
new email account is now created and ready to begin accepting email.
How do I set the default address for unrouted mail in my domain?
*This article assumes you are already logged into CPanel.*
You will see several icons on the main page of CPanel. At the top left there is an icon named Mail. Click on that.
Now, in the next screen you will see several choices. The 3rd choice down is named Default Address. Click on that.
In the next screen you will see All unrouted mail will be sent to:
Followed by a list of your domain and subdomains. At the bottom of the page click on the link that reads Set Default Address. This will take you to a new
page. On this page there will be a line that says Send all unrouted e-mail for: and there is a drop down box with the domain and all the subdomains listed. Choose which one you want then in
the 2nd box to the right type in the email address you wish to use. Now, click on the Change button.
You will be taken to another screen. Now all unrouted email for your domain or subdomain will be sent to the email address you entered.
How do I add an autoresponder in CPanel?
*This article assumes you are already logged into CPanel.*
You will see several icons on the main page of CPanel. At the top left there is an icon named Mail. Click on that.
Now, in the next screen you will see several choices. The 4th choice down is named Autoresponders. Click on that.
At the bottom of the next screen click on Add Autoresponder. This will take you to a new screen with several boxes.
Email:
From:
Subject
Character Set:
HTML Message:
Body:
We'll start with the Email line. Type in the prefix for the email address you'll be using. To the right of that, click on the drop down box and choose
the domain or subdomain it's for.
Now, in the From catagory type in who the email will be from. It can be a name, an email address or just about anything you want.
For the subject line type in the Subject of the email. This is what people will see when they view the email address before they open it.
In the character set line click the drop down menu and change it to what you want. *NOTE* Normally you will not need to change this line, so you may leave it
un-changed at us-ascii.
If you want to insert any sort of HTML into the message then click the box next to HTML Message. This will allow for all HTML code inserted into the document
to work properly.
Lastly, click in the large box next to Body. Type in all the text that you wish for people to read when the autoresponse is sent out.
At the bottom of the page click on Create. This will take you to a new screen that will say "Autoresponder successfully created." The autoresponder
for your email account is now created and operational and all email sent to that address will automatically receive the designated response.
How do I enable mail filtering in CPanel?
*This article assumes you are already logged into CPanel.*
You will see several icons on the main page of CPanel. At the top left there is an icon named Mail. Click on that.
Now, in the next screen you will see several choices. The 5th choice down is named Email Filtering. Click on that.
In the next page that comes up click on the link that reads Add Filter. This will bring you to a page that has a couple options. Those are: Filter
Destination
The way email filtering works is if you receive an email that matches the guidelines you set it will send the email to the designated area (a spam box for
example). You can also set it to use spamassassin and completely get rid of the email and all future emails of that sort.
We're going to setup a basic email filter. Say we get an email we don't like from spam@spam.com with the subject "Get free stuff now!"
In the Filter line Subject and Contains are already selected. So, move over to the 3rd box and type in Get free stuff now!
Below that, Discard is already typed into the box. You don't want the email so leave this as is. Now click the Create button. This will take you to
another page telling you that the mail filter has been successfully created. Now all email containing the subject "Get free stuff now!" will be discarded in the future.
How do I create an email forwarder in CPanel?
*This article assumes you are already logged into CPanel.*
You will see several icons on the main page of CPanel. At the top left there is an icon named Mail. Click on that.
Now, in the next screen you will see several choices. The 6th link down is named Forwarders. Click on that.
On this page at the bottom you will see a link that says Add Forwarder. Click on that to proceed to the next page.
You will see a empty box followed by a box that has a domain or subdomain name in it. In the first box, type the prefix for the email address you will be
using for forwarding email. If you are using a subdomain, click on the drop down box and choose which subdomain you wish to use. In the last box on the right, type in the full email address
that all email will be forwarding to.
Now click on the button that reads Add Forwarder. This will take you to a new page that will say you have successfully added an email forwarder. Now all email
for the designated email address will be automatically forwarded to the other email address.
How do I create a mailing list in CPanel?
*This article assumes you are already logged into CPanel.*
You will see several icons on the main page of CPanel. At the top left there is an icon named Mail. Click on that.
Now, in the next screen you will see several choices. The 7th link down is named Mailing Lists. Click on that.
In this page you will see a link that says Add Mailing List. Click on that to proceed to the next page.
On this page you'll see 3 boxes:
List Name
Password
Domain
For List Name, this is what users will see the name as when they receive email from the mailing list in their inbox. You should name it something that
everyone who is added to the list will be familiar with.
In the Password box, you want to choose a secure password made up of letters and numbers and usually at least 6 characters long. This is the password that
will be required for users to access the mailing list.
Lastly, the Domain box should be which domain or subdomain the mailing list will be for. Click the drop down box and choose the one you want. Now, click the
Create button. This will take you to a page telling you that you have successfully created a mailing list.
How do I enable spam assassin in CPanel?
*This article assumes you are already logged into CPanel.*
You will see several icons on the main page of CPanel. At the top left there is an icon named Mail. Click on that.
Now, in the next screen you will see several choices. The 8th link down is named Spam assassin. Click on that.
In this page you will see several lines of text including (assuming spam assassin is off already):
Spam Assassin is currently: disabled
Spam Box is currently: disabled
At the bottom of the page there are 5 buttons. These are: Enable Spam Assassin, Disable Spam Assassin, Enable Spam Box, Disable Spam Box, Configure Spam
Assassin (required to rewrite subjects)
We aren't going to get into the Spam Assassin configuration settings in this article so you may ignore that button.
To enable Spam Assassin simply click on the button labeled Enable Spam Assassin. If you also wish for users to have their spam email filtered into a spam box
then click the button labled Enable Spam Box. Spam Assassin and/or the Spam Box is now enabled for your domain.
How do I change my Mail Exchanger (MX) records in CPanel?
*This article assumes you are already logged into CPanel.*
You will see several icons on the main page of CPanel. At the top left there is an icon named Mail. Click on that.
Now, in the next screen you will see several choices. The link at the bottom of the list is named Modify Mail Exchanger (MX Entry). Click on that.
On the page you will see a list of all domains/subdomains with the MX entry for each if there is one. At the bottom you will see a link that reads Change an
MX Entry. Click on that.
This page shows you a drop down box with a list of your domain and subdomains. Choose the domain/subdomain you will be modifying the MX entry for.
Now, in the box on the right side type in the FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name) of the mail server. This should be something like mail.domain.com or
domain.com where domain.com is replaced by the name of the domain you will be using for email.
After you are done with that click on the button that reads Change. This will take you to a new page showing that you have successfully changed the MX record.
It should take effect instantly.
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