Adding email accounts

Overview
You may have the ability to add extra email accounts to your main account. The number of email accounts you have available is dependant on the hosting plan you are on and is shown on the main screen of your cPanel interface.

NOTE: If you need the ability to add more email accounts, you will need to contact us, so we can provide you with this ability.

Steps
1 To access the Mail Menu, click on the icon above the word Mail on the main screen of your cPanel interface.

2 Click on the words Add/Remove Accounts to enter MAIL ACCOUNT MAINTENANCE.

3 Click on the words Add Account.

4 Enter the name of the account, the account's password, and the account's quota (amount of disk space the account can use) in their respective blank fields. In the following picture, sample information has been inputted.

5 Click on the button labeled create to create the account.

NOTE: If the account was created successfully, the following will appear (except it will contain the information you provided in the blank fields rather than the information provided above):

Account Created

The e-mail account documentation@cpdocs.com with the login documentation+cpdocs.com and password test with a quota of 10 megs was successfully created.

NOTE: The size of the email accounts will decrease the available webspace amount depending on the amount of email residing on the server. For instance, if you have 500mb of webspace and 200mb of email in a mailbox, you only have 300mb of webspace remaining. So, if you set your mailbox size too high it is possible to go over-limit on disk space causing your site to become suspended until space can be cleared.

Troubleshooting
Some email clients may not recognize non-standard characters for the account name. If the account is not being created, make sure that all fields contain information before clicking on create.

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