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cPanel User Guide and Tutorial

By : Aric Pedersen
Book Image

cPanel User Guide and Tutorial

By: Aric Pedersen

Overview of this book

"A great book for getting the most out of your cPanel-supporting web host" If you have web hosting requirements beyond the most basic, you should look for a host that offers cPanel. cPanel gives you tight control over every aspect of your web site, email accounts, and domain names. But once you've got a web site with cPanel support, how do you go about using it? While the documentation included with cPanel may provide a quick reference, to really get the most from it you need a more detailed, systematic tutorial. Read this book to find out exactly how to get the most from cPanel in all aspects of your web site management: web, email, FTP, security, domains, back ups, and more.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
cPanel: User Guide and Tutorial
Credits
About the Author
Preface
Glossary

Changing Advanced E‑mail Options and Monitoring your E‑mail Account


You can edit the mail quota at any time for all e‑mail accounts you have created. To do that, you should click on the Change Quota link next to the e‑mail account you want to edit. Enter the new quota in MB and click on Change to make the new mail quota size active.

Note

Depending on how your web host has the mail server set up, mail that comes in for an account that is over the set quota will either be stored in a temporary queue until enough space is cleared out to allow the message to be delivered (up to 3 days at most before deleting the message) or be deleted immediately without delivering it; so watch mail quotas carefully.

To see how much disk space each account is using (for stored mail), click Show Disk Space Used and the amount of disk space in use and the maximum quota will be displayed next to each e‑mail account. Note that the main e‑mail account will not show this information.

Clicking on Aging will allow you...