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Keeping it simple, without the hype. PC tips and Internet advice for mom and pop businesses.
Keeping it simple, without the hype. PC tips and Internet advice for mom and pop businesses.
The first thing we are going to do with the brand new website is to create an email account so that you can use it on your contact pages for your new site.
A Note About the Hosting Service Used in the Examples.
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How To Set Up Your Email.
The very first thing that you are going to want to do is to access your site’s control panel. If you have Web Promotion Services’ hosting or another Unix hosting account, you generally can access it by typing in the name of your domain, following by “cpanel.” Here, we are accessing the control panel for the site, http://www.calmingfood.com.
Before you can access your control panel, an authorization screen will pop up. When you purchased your web hosting service, you should have received a welcome email. Your hosting package’s user name and password will be in that email. Enter it in the authorization box and click OK.
Once you are in the control panel area, a “help” box may pop up. If you want, watch the video tutorials and getting started wizard. In this example, we’re going to ignore all of that. What you want to do to set up your web-based email is to click the icon that looks like an envelope with the word “Email Accounts” under it, as shown in the image below.
After you have clicked the Email Accounts link, you will be taken to a screen that allows you to add an email account. In this example, I am setting up a temporary account called 1234567@calmingfood.com with a password of 1234567. For you spammers out there, please take note that this email has been deleted.
Notes & Observations- You might want to create unique email addresses. Even if you don’t publish them on your website, the following common email addresses will get tons of spam:
- webmaster@YourDomain.com
- support@YourDomain.com
- admin@YourDomain.com
- administrator@YourDomain.com
You simply type in the name that you want, as well as the password (most of the time, you need to type in the password twice). In this example, we’re setting up the account 1234567@calmingfood.com with a password of 1234567.
Where it says “Mailbox quota (optional),” a default of 250 mb or some other default number will appear. Delete that so that you don’t have any size limitations on your email account. You want your quota to be blank.
Press CREATE and your account will be created. You’ll see a screen that looks like the image below.
If you want to use your Outlook, Outlook Express or other email client, the “Yes” button will attempt to create your account for you so that you get your email on your computer. This does not always work. For purposes of this tutorial, I am not going to show you how to set up your accounts in Outlook. Instead, I’ll show you how you can access your web-based email that is on your domain. If you travel often, you might prefer the web-based function.
Accessing Your Web-Based Email.
With most Unix servers, you should be able to access your email by typing in the name of your domain, followed by “webmail,” as shown in the image below.
When you access the web-based URL, an authorization prompt will appear. The User Name is almost always your email address (if the @ does not work, use the + symbol). Use the password you created when you set up your email address.
After you click “OK,” you will probably see a number of different email viewing programs, as shown in the image below. Select the one that you want — Horde, SquirrelMail and RoundCube are all basically the same. It does not matter which program you use to view your email.
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