“Email” is an unsurpassed boon from internet, its most popular and widely used communication medium which has brought whole world very closer. If you are into webhosting industry and you do online trading using your website then having an email account is must for you where all your clients and web visitors can contact you for any requirements. Thus creating and managing email accounts is one of the most important feature you should look after with your webhosting account. All hosting service provider will provide you some facility for creating and managing email accounts, if you are on linux hosting platform you have cPanel as your control panel using which you can create all required email accounts and if you are using Windows Hosting account then your webhost will provide you Plesk as your webhosting control panel for managing your hosting account, you can easily create email accounts and can manage them effectively.
Creating email accounts using Plesk control panel.
You need to login to your plesk control panel and need to access email icon for creating email accounts. You need to select “ Add New Mail Name Option “
You will have to fill-in all required info at respected fields such as mail name : password, mailbox quota etc….
Mail name : this would be the name of email address which you would be creating for your selected domain. Eg … sales @ domainbnameDOTcom, contact @ domainnameDOTcom etc……
Password : to ensure security for your email address you need to protect it with some password, you should use some unique password which you can remember easily.
Mail box quota : If you want to set limit for amount of space a particular email account should have them you can use this feature If you select unlimited diskspace then this account would be able to use up as much web space as you have left for your hosting account. Once you are ready with your email account then you have other options which you can set for your newly created email account.
You have option for creating “new alias” using which you can create any number of aliases for the mail email account. Any email sent to this alias will also be received for the master email account for which this alias email account has been setup. You have option for setting name an password for this email account which can be used for accessing this email account. You have option for disabling any email account which you no longer needed and thus this account would not have its physical presence on the server. you need to select mailbox option from your email control panel. You can easily set redirects for any of your email account thus all email coming at respected email will get redirected to other email address you have specified. One of the important feature you can use with your email account is setting up “ Auto Responder “ once you enable this option for any of your email account them all emails you are receiving for that particular email address will get an automatic reply which you have setup as “ Auto Response “ this feature would be helpful if you are not in town and cant access your mail box for some period of time, thus using this email feature you can make them aware of your holidays.
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This post was written by admin on October 16, 2008
