Adding an E-mail Address to cPanel

From OCS Support Wiki

If you want to add an additional e-mail address to your website and be able to check it with webmail or a mail client like Outlook, you'll need to set it up in cPanel first.

To begin, you will need to login to your cPanel control panel. Instructions on doing this will be found in your welcome letter. Once you're in, click on the E-mail Accounts icon, as shown below:

Once you click this icon, you'll be presented with a dialog similar to this one:

At this point, you can click on the "Video Tutorial" button and watch a demonstration of adding an account or continue with this guide.

To add an account, type the first part of the e-mail address (ie. the name portion of name@domain.com) in the e-mail box. For example, if you wanted to create a mailbox called joe@aaacompany.com, you would put "joe" in the e-mail box.

In the two password fields, enter a password for this new address. The password strength indicator will indicate how difficult the password will be to crack. It is recommended you choose a good password with a combination of letters and numbers. Remember that the password is case sensitive.

If you want to limit the size of the mailbox for this account, you can do so by specifying a quota. We recommend setting this to 250 as shown in the image (and is the default). It can always be expanded later if the mailbox needs more space. Setting this value too high on an account you don't plan to check much can quickly use up all of the space on your account if you don't download the mail with a mail client on a regular basis.

Once you click Create you will have successfully setup the e-mail account.

Now that you've added the account, you can set it up in an e-mail client. Visit our E-mail Clients Setup section for guides on doing this.