How To Set Up Your Email

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If you are hosted with us, you can create unlimited email addresses as needed,  e.g. joe@mywebsite.com

However, you only need to add one email address to your back office at “Customize Web Site” > “Customize Website Info”, which will be receiving everything submitted to your website.

In order to send an receive emails with an email address on your domain, you must

1) TO CREATE AN EMAIL ACCOUNT:

Log into your cpanel at [yourdomain]/cpanel
(The username and password were sent with your welcome email)

You can create an email account in one of 2 ways:

a) Forwarders

Click  “Forwarders” and create a “Forwarder“. This simply forwards email to an existing email address, e.g.

joe@mywebsite.com  has been forwarded to “joe@gmail.com

or

b) You can also create a new stand-alone email:

Under “Email Accounts” Create a new email address.

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The process of creating the emails is pretty straight forward.

 

2) HOW TO ACCESS YOUR EMAIL

a) Webmail

To access web mail online anywhere, anytime, go to

http://[yourdomain]/webmail
Username: mailboxname@[yourdomain] Password: Password you designate for the mailbox.

It will then prompt you to choose a webmail application:

application

 

2) Outlook

Email protocol is universal and it does not matter what gadget you are using to fetch it. To fetch any email, you need:

  • Incoming mail server – this should be your domain, e.g. mywebsite.com (without www.)
  • Outgoing mail server – this should be your domain, e.g. mywebsite.com (without www.). To controlspam, some internet service providers block the ability to send email through third party servers (such as your domain name). If  mywebsite.com  does not work, contact your ISP and use their instructions instead
  • Username – this should be mailboxname@mywebsite.com (i.e. mailboxname@[yourdomain])
  • Password: Password you designate for the mailbox.

 

TO CONFIGURE OUTLOOK:

Microsoft has a  good guide here.

Click “File” on the top left corner (Outlook 2013)

Add account

In outlook 2013, choose the manual setup:

Manual

On the next screen choose “POP or Imap”:

Pop or imap

The next screen should look like this:

Email settings

If you use your ISP settings, then click “More Settings” and follow their instructions. The settings should be like this:

Settings

Click “Next and Finish, and you are done!

If everything works, “Test Account Settings” should test clean and you should be able to fetch and send email.

TO CONFIGURE AN IPHONE

Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Add Account
Choose “Other”
Choose “Add Mail Account”

  • Username: mailboxname@[yourdomain] – e.g. myname@mywebsite.com
  • Password: Password you designate for the mailbox.
  • Incoming mail server (Host Name): [yourdomain] – e.g. mywebsite.com
  • Outgoing mail server: mywebsite.com  or Contact your ISP for this.

 

IF YOUR EMAIL HAS STOPPED WORKING:

If your email suddenly stops working:

1) GO to your cpanel [yourdomain]/cpanel

2) Under “Mail” click “Email Accounts”

3) Reset the password to make sure it is correct:
Username: mailboxname@[yourdomain] Password: Password you designate for the mailbox.
Incoming mail server: [yourdomain] – e.g. mywebsite.com
Outgoing mail server: Contact your ISP for this

4) Make sure your mailbox is not full
This is the most common problem.You can fix this by:

a)  Increase mailbox size
b) Make sure you always delete email you do not need. If you use outlook, set it to delete email automatically after you download it

My email has stopped working

This is discussed in this article.

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