Creating Email Accounts in DirectAdmin
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Email Management
<h3>Adding a New Email Account</h3>
<p>DirectAdmin makes it easy to create professional email accounts using your own domain name. Each email account gets its own mailbox for sending and receiving messages.</p>
<h3>Step-by-Step Instructions</h3>
<ol>
<li>Log in to DirectAdmin.</li>
<li>Navigate to <strong>Email Manager</strong> (or <strong>E-Mail Accounts</strong>).</li>
<li>Click on <strong>Email Accounts</strong> or <strong>Create Mail Account</strong>.</li>
<li>Select the domain for the email account if you have multiple domains.</li>
<li>Enter the desired email username (the part before the @ symbol). For example, entering <code>info</code> creates <code>info@yourdomain.com</code>.</li>
<li>Enter and confirm a strong password for the email account.</li>
<li>Set the <strong>Email Quota</strong> (mailbox storage limit in megabytes). Enter <code>0</code> for unlimited (subject to your account's total disk quota).</li>
<li>Click <strong>Create Account</strong> to finish.</li>
</ol>
<div class="alert alert-info">The total number of email accounts you can create depends on your hosting plan. Check your account summary to see your limit.</div>
<h3>After Creating the Account</h3>
<p>Once the email account is created, you can access it through:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Webmail</strong> - Access your email in a browser at <code>https://yourdomain.com/webmail</code> or <code>https://your-server:2222/webmail</code>.</li>
<li><strong>Email Client</strong> - Configure an email client like Outlook, Thunderbird, or your phone's mail app using the IMAP/POP3/SMTP settings described in our email client setup guides.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Managing Existing Accounts</h3>
<p>From the Email Accounts page, you can:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Change Password</strong> - Click on the account and update the password.</li>
<li><strong>Modify Quota</strong> - Adjust the mailbox storage limit.</li>
<li><strong>Suspend/Unsuspend</strong> - Temporarily disable an email account without deleting it.</li>
<li><strong>Delete</strong> - Permanently remove the email account and all its messages.</li>
</ul>
<div class="alert alert-warning">Deleting an email account permanently removes all messages stored in that mailbox. Ensure you have backed up any important emails before deleting an account.</div>
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