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How to Manage Email Accounts in cPanel

This documentation will give you a step by step instructions to create and manage Email accounts associated with your cPanel domains. You may also refer the following video tutorials: cPanel Email Video Tutorials

To begin, log in to cPanel and navigate to “Mail” section.

(How do I login to cPanel)

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Create New Email Accounts

1: Click on Email Accounts

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2: Enter the Email user name you wish to create.

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3: Enter and confirm password. (Always use secure passwords or you can use the “Password Generator”.)


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5: Then click “Create Account”.

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That’s it, the Email account is created now.  

Delete an Email Account

1: List Email accounts 2: Click on the “Delete” option that corresponds to the account want to remove.

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Access Email account through Webmail.

Webmail is web based Email client to access your Email accounts. You can access Webmail either from cPanel or using the URL http://yourdomain.com/webmail Steps to access through cPanel: 1: Click on “More” option corresponds to the Email account

you want to open using Webmail. 2: Click on “Access Webmail”.


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3: Then you can see option to enter password of the Email account. 4: Enter the password and click “Log in”. 5: Then Click on Read Mail Using horde or RoundCube or SquirrelMail.


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Email Client Configuration.

You can configure Email account in Email clients like Outlook, Thunderbird, Apple Mail etc. You can either configure the Email client automatically or manually. Steps to Access: 1: Click on “More” option corresponds to the Email account. 2: Click on  “Configure Email Client”.


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This concludes Email accounts management for cPanel domains.


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