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Where do I set up email accounts for my site?

Log in to your CPanel
http://www.yoursite.com/cpanel/
or
http://www.yoursite.com:2082
or
Use the IP of your server
http://123.123.123.123:2082

You will click Mail Manager

You will see this information below

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Add/Remove E-mail:

This is where you go if you want to set up a real POP3 email
account, replete with storage space for mail in your account (any mail
storage will affect the amount of disk space your account uses). You will see that
there is an account already set up for you. This is a mail account for you as the
administrator. You can’t change, delete or otherwise modify this mail account. If
you want to change your mail password you need to use the “change password”
option from the main screen of your CPANEL. This will affect your password for
all services that you log into as administrator including CPANEL, mail and your
FTP account.

To create another e-mail account, just click the “Add Account” button at the
bottom of the screen. This will take you to the new e-mail account setup screen.
Here you set the username for the e-mail address
“usernameyourdomainname.com”, the password and choose the quota
(more commonly referred to as mailbox size) for the account. If you leave the quota
blank, then the mailbox can grow until your web hosting account runs out of disk
space. If you do set a mailbox size, then that e-mail account will stop accepting
mail until the mailbox is cleaned out to make room for more messages.
Once you create the account, it is immediately active. You can view the amount
of disk space any e-mail account is using, change the password, change the quota,
delete the account or read the mail in that account via webmail.


Of course, if you go through the trouble of setting up a real e-mail account for
someone, then you will probably want to send/receive mail from that account in
your favorite e-mail program (Outlook (Express), Eudora, etc.).
The exact settings may change slightly from web host to web host, so make sure you check with
your hosting provider.

For any given domain name:

Account/Username:
usernamemydomainname.com
OR
username+mydomainname.com

Password: the password you set up for that account in your CPANEL.

Mail Server: mail.mydomainname.com
SMTP Server: mail.mydomainname.com

SMTP Authentication: YES (this option makes sure to send your username and password when sending mail)
Return Address: usernamemydomainname.com
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Default Address: This allows you to set what action will happen when mail is
sent to a user at your domain for whom you have NOT set up an e-mail account or
e-mail forwarding. By default, any mail sent to an address that doesn't’t exist goes
to your administrator e-mail account. You can set it to go to any e-mail address
you prefer (even an external address). Alternately, you can set mail to non-assigned
addresses to just be instantly discarded with no warning (set the action to
“:blackhole:”) or have the e-mail bounced back to the sender with a message
noting that the e-mail was undeliverable (set the action to “:fail:”).

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