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cPanel User Guide and Tutorial

By : Aric Pedersen
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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

Managing POP3 and IMAP E‑mail Accounts


If you want to create new e‑mail accounts or work with existing ones, you should click on Manage/Add/Remove Accounts. This is where you go if you want to set up a POP3/IMAP e‑mail account.

Every cPanel account comes with one administrator e‑mail address by default. This administrator e‑mail account matches both your cPanel account username (so the e‑mail address is ) and password. If you change your cPanel account password, the main e‑mail account password will change also. You may choose to use this account or not, but this account cannot be deleted.

Note

There is one advantage to the administrator e‑mail account (at the time of writing this book); it has the ability to see mail left for other users. To do that, you need to log into the account via web mail and you should then be able to choose the various mailboxes set up for e‑mail accounts in your domain. While you cannot send mail as these users, you can read, forward...