Sunday, 13 September 2009

How to setup an email account on your new cpanel.

There are two steps involved in setting up an email account on your hosting account.

  1. Log into your control panel and create an email address.

  2. Setup your email client to connect to our server to send / recieve email.


Setting up an email account in cPanel.


  1. Login to your cPanel

  2. Click on the "Mail" icon

  3. Click on "Manage/Add/Remove Accounts"

  4. Click on "Add Account" at the bottom of the page

  5. Enter the name of the account you'd like to create

  6. Enter the password you would like to use for the account

  7. Click "Create" and you've now created your new account on the server!


You can access it either via your email client "outlook" or via web mail:  yourdomain.com/webmail

Accessing your email via webmail.
You will be prompted for a username and password:




    • username: will be your full email address

    • password: will be the password you created in the email control panel setup process.




Accessing your email via an email client such as outlook.

Because of the wide array of email clients available it would be difficult to cover them all in this one article (more tutorial are available on the support.amplehosting.com website.

The basics:

pop3: mail.yourdomain.coma ( replace yourdomain.com with the domain you have registered with us)
smtp: mail.yourdomain.com ( replace yourdomain.com with the domain you have registered with us)

Username: your full email address
Password: the password your created in your control panel.

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