Set Up an Email Address | A Small Orange Support

<p>By default, email is not configured for new accounts on A Small Orange's servers. You can create email addresses for each account you wish to use, however.<br />
<em style="line-height: 1.6em;"><strong>Note:&nbsp;</strong>the following examples assume your domain name is called 'example.com'&nbsp;and your cPanel username is 'example'.</em></p>

<h3>Creating an Email Address</h3>

<p>To create your very own email address:</p>

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	<p>Log in to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.asmallorange.com/help/article/aso-accessing-your-cpanel-account" target="_blank" title="log in to cPanel">cPanel</a></p>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p>Click Email Accounts, in the Mail section.</p>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p>Add your new email address info in the Email, Password, and Password (again) fields&nbsp;</p>

	<p><img alt="Creating an email account" class="img-responsive" src="https://content.asmallorange.com/aso/img/creating_email_account.png" width="500" /></p>

	<p>&nbsp;</p>
	</li>
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	<p>Tick the option to denote your mailbox quota<br />
	<em><strong>Note:&nbsp;</strong>the quota defaults to 10 MB. You can adjust this higher, or enter 0 to give it unlimited (it will be limited by your entire account disk space, so be careful here.)</em>&nbsp;</p>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p>Click Create Account</p>
	</li>
</ol>

<p>Now, when you login to&nbsp;Webmail&nbsp;or configure an email client such as Outlook, Thunderbird, or Apple Mail.app, you'll use the full email address (you@example.com, or whatever you chose for your email address) for the username and the password you just created.</p>

<h3 id="hn_Using_the_Default_Address_Main_Account">Using the Default Address/Main Account</h3>

<p>Enabling this is not recommended. To enable a default address or main account:</p>

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	<p>Click Mail and then Default Address</p>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p>Click Set Default Address</p>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p>Select the correct domain name in the dropdown menu and then type in your cPanel username</p>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p>Click Change</p>
	</li>
</ol>

<p>This enables&nbsp;all email&nbsp;addressed to an address&nbsp;<em>other than the one created above</em>&nbsp;to be delivered to your cPanel main account.</p>

<h3 id="hn_Forwarding_mail">Forwarding Mail</h3>

<p>In the Mail section of cPanel click Forwarders. Here you can add an email forwarder or a website forwarder.<br />
<em><strong>Note:</strong>&nbsp;the mail for a forwarded email address will still be delivered to the original sent-to address as well.&nbsp;If you just set up a forwarder, the mail will not be kept locally. If you set up the email account AND a forwarder, then your mail will be kept both locally and forwarded.</em></p>