If you would like to have an email address that stands out a bit and have your own domain name, this will cover setting a new email address up via cPanel with HostGator.
Step 1: Create a new eMail address
Log into your host gator cpanel account, locate the Mail section of the control panel, and select Email accounts
In the Add New Email Account section:
Adding a new email address with cPanel
- Enter the name for the email account
- Select the domain name that you want to use
- Enter the password you want to use twice
- Set a quota to note how much space it can take up
I recommend something fairly small unless you want to save all of your mail online. 10 MB is plenty if you download all of your mail. 50 MB to 100 MB is probably plenty if you keep your mail online and delete old / unwanted mail.
When done, select Create and you should see a confirmation message with the new email address shown in the list under the Current Accounts setting.
Using your new email account
Once you have created the mail account, you need to be able to make use of it. There are two primary ways of doing so:
- Checking and using email online
- Setting up an email client to use the email account locally
Because there are a number of email clients available, I am just going to cover accessing your email via cPanel.
Accessing webmail from the cPanel email list
Select Access Webmail from the list of emails shown in the Email Accounts panel. Note that if you select the WebMail button from the main cpanel home, you will be logging into the main account for your domain, which is probably not what you want.
You should see the below login screen ( or something similar ). Go ahead and enter the password you set for the new email account and select login.
Once you do so, you should come to a screen that allows you to choose which webmail client you want to use and/or configure the account.
Clients and Mail Setting Options in cPanel
Choose a client to log in. I’ll use Horde for this example, but any will work. Try them each to see what you prefer. Here is what Horde looks like:
The Horde Mail Client
From there, you can see your email, write email, etc.
If you want to setup your email to be read from an email client such as Mozilla Thunderbird and are not sure how to go about doing so, feel free to leave a comment with the client in question and, when I get time, I will see about putting up a quick configuration walkthrough for you.
