Setting 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.</p>

<p><em><strong>Note:&nbsp;</strong>the following examples assume your domain name is called 'example.com'&nbsp;and your cPanel username is 'example'.</em></p>

<h2>Creating an Email Address</h2>

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

<ol>
	<li>Log in to&nbsp;<a data-mce-href="https://help.asmallorange.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/14/1/accessing-your-cpanel-account" href="https://www.asmallorange.com/help/article/aso-accessing-your-cpanel-account" target="_blank" title="log in to cPanel">cPanel</a>.</li>
	<li>Click Email Accounts, in the Mail section.</li>
	<li>Add your new email address info in the Email, Password, and Password (again)fields.<br />
	<img src="https://content.asmallorange.com/img/cpanel-creating-email-account.png" width="800" /></li>
	<li>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></li>
	<li>Click Create Account.</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>

<h2 id="hn_Using_the_Default_Address_Main_Account">Using the Default Address/Main Account</h2>

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

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

<h2 id="hn_Forwarding_mail">Forwarding Mail</h2>

<p>In the Mail section of cPanel click Forwarders. Here you can add an email forwarder or a website forwarder.</p>

<p><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>