Setting up an email account.

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In order to receive email on the Internet, you need to have an email account. One of the primary advantages of using a professional hosting account is email based on your company domain.

How do I setup an email account?

1. Log into your cPanel.
2. Click the Mail icon.
3. Click Manage/Add/Remove Accounts.
4. Click Add Account.
5. Enter the account name in the first field (example “david”, or “david.ferguson”).
6. Enter a password of your choice.
7. Enter a mail box quota. Quota is the amount of disk space that this account can use for storing email on the server, a decent amount of mail can be held in 10 megabytes of space.
8. Press Create.

Now that you have an email account, you can start receiving email. Advise your friends, colleagues, and family of your new email address.

Once you have an email account setup, you will need to check if anybody has sent you any messages so that you can read and respond. There are a number of ways that you can check your email, simply choose the one that is the most convenient for you.

To access your webmail, simply visit www.yourdomain.com.au/webmail
You will be prompted for a username and password, enter your full email address as the username, and the password that you chose when you setup the email account.

The first interface you will see after logging in will allow you to choose one of the 3 available webmail clients. A client is simply an interface to your email, they all perform the same function, but are laid out differently – its simply a matter of personal preference which one you choose. Feel free to visit each of them and decide which one suits you best.

Also in the initial interface, you are able to change your account password, forward all the email from this account to another account, setup an auto responder, and define an aging rule to delete old email.

POP3 Access
Using an email client on your computer (such as Microsoft Outlook, or Outlook Express) you are able to communicate with the myshophosting.com servers over the POP3 protocol and download your email.

When setting up an email account in your email client, you will need to enter the following information:

If you experience difficulties sending email, enable SMTP Authentication in the advanced options of your email client. Authenticate using the same login credentials as you do for receiving email.