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When you have got your website setup at your hosting account and have setup anything else directly for the website during that process you will usually have at least one more thing left to do and that is to add an email account and associate it with your website so that you can receive emails from whoever may need to contact you through your website.

Before doing anything in cPanel for your email account, you first want to check that you have your website setup with a Contact or Contact Us form and section to deal with emails directly through your website, how this is setup will be dependant on how your website has been setup, but once you establish that a contact section is in place its time to add your email account at your web hosting account.

The number of email accounts that you can setup and the size for each email account storage is dependant on your webhost and what they allow and the options for you to choose from.

Ok, on with the creation of your email account, within cPanel you need to look for the Mail icon, it will usually have the text “Mail” underneath it, if you click either the icon or the text, it will take you to the email page where you can choose to setup your email.

Under “Mail Manager Main Menu” you should see a link called “Add/Remove/Manage Accounts” and if you click on that link it will take you to the Mail Account Maintenance page, here is where you can add an email account and add a password to it so that you can login to your email account once it is setup.

At the bottom you will see a link called “Add Account” click on that link and you are presented with form fields to enter your chosen email address, password and to choose the quota in megabytes, this is to limit the size of the email account storage but is optional.

Go ahead and enter your email address, you may choose something like admin@mysite.com, this is just an example but of course you want to associate it with your domain and to let people know who you are so you could be the admin or technical support or whatever you choose to input there.

Next enter your chosen password, keep a note of this, either in your head or kept safe somewhere, so that you can login to your email account easily, and lastly, choose the quota if you want to, but this is not neccessary, click create and your all done, you should see if the creation of the account has been successful.

Click on “Go Back” and you should see your email account showing on the “Mail Account Maintenance” page, try logging into your email account to test it and see if everything is setup correctly and working for you.

Your email inbox will be empty of course until you begin receiving emails through your website, to login to your email account for any particular site you just click the Webmail link on the “Mail Account Maintenance” page and it takes you to a page to enter your password for that email address, then press login and you often have a choice within cPanel to read your email from an option of readers, i usually choose SquirrelMail to read my email within cPanel.

All you have to do now is login to the admin section of your website and enter the email address that you setup so that emails sent through your website end up in the inbox of that account.

And your all done, you have successfully added and email account specifically for your website and associated it with your website.

Now just wait for those emails to begin arriving in your inbox.