This article will show you how to create POP email accounts. These accounts will be based off of your domain names. This article will assume that you are signed into your cPanel. If you think you are having a hard time doing that, please check out the article named "How to Login to cPanel".
Scroll down your main cPanel page to the area called Mail, and hit on the icon that says Email Accounts. This will open the main Email Accounts page.
Once you scroll down, you will notice that there is already a POP email account, listed as the Default Email Account. This is the main account that each hosting account includes, and is the "catch-all" for all un-routed email that comes to your domain. This default account has no quota, and just cant be deleted. We are now going to set up a new account.
Find the first box in the section Add a New Email Account. If ever you should have a couple of domain in your account- for instance, a parked domain, or add-on domain be sure to select the correct domain from the pull-down menu for which you want to create your POP email account.
Once you have selected the correct domain, in the box that says email, you will write the name of the first account you like to establish. This account can be whatever you choose. Your name, or an employee name can go here, such as Bob or Fred, or Nancy or you may put in a department name, such as sales, accounting, or customerservice. It must be written as one word, with no spaces. Provide the account a password that you can can recall, and enter it back again to verify it. If it is too weak, it will not be approved, and you will be urged to try once again. A strong password is recommendable to safeguard your email from computer hackers.
At this point you have your email account - something@yourdomain.whatever .com, .net, .org, etc. Now you need to decide how much space of your hosting package you are going to dedicate to your mail. You have the option to set a quota limit of space. If you give it a set limit of a certain number of MB, and the box is full, you will get warnings to clean it out. You may also leave it as unlimited, but if you don't recall to check and empty it off the server, you run the risk of using all your server space. After setting the quota, hit on create account and you a have succesfully done your first email account.
Click on the Go Back button, and you will see your new address listed, as well as a list of actions that you may do on that account. You can change your password, change the mail quota, Delete the account completely or even access webmail here. You can as well configure an email client Outlook, Outlook Express, Thunderbird, etc..
After creating your first account, do the same for several accounts as your plan allows. Don't forget to put on file the passwords somewhere safe in order that you will be able to access the email for reading afterwards. When you are finished, click on the home icon in the upper left corner to go back to your cPanel. This is the end of the article. As always, if using a public computer, remember to close your cPanel by clicking on Logout rather than just closing the browser window.
