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WebMail, and other Mailbox Options

By admin | December 19, 2007

This post is intended for our Linux hosted sites.

Today I would like to show you some other features on your mail server.

One of these features is Webmail … which may be especially important to you at this time of the year when you may find yourself away from home and your own PC/email.

Note .. If you are not using your email addresses in your own domain name then you really should be. It creates much more of a brand awareness in your clients mind if your website and email addresses correspond.


Mail boxes, aliases and email forwarders are all configured from within the “email” icon in your server control panel.

There are some other functions that can be performed on each individual mail box. To access these functions you need to navigate to the webmail interface for that mailbox.

All email boxes can also be accessed via the web … perfect for when you are not at home.

To access your webmail go to http://yourdomainnamehere/webmail

A login/password screen will come up. Use your entire email address as the username and the relevant mailbox password as the password. If you enter the correct credentials then you will see the control screen for that particular mailbox.

Horde and Squirrel are 2 different webmail software packages that I have installed on your server. These are the options you will choose when you want to send/receive your email. If you have used Yahoo, Hotmail, or any web based mail system before then you should have no trouble using these. They are functionally the same and you can use whichever you prefer.

In the webmail interface you will also see some additional icons. These are what you use to configure other parameters for your mailbox.

If you wish to change your mailbox password then use the “Change Password” icon.

To automatically redirect all of your email to another email address then you can use the “Forwarding Options” icon.


You can use “Autoresponder Options” to set up “away messages” ie. messages that automatically get sent back to someone who emails you informing them you are “out of the office”, “on vacation”, etc.

Please read through the user manual for the cPanel (you can click here to download it) … the mail server section starts at around page 100.

As always, please don’t hesitate to drop any questions you may have about the mail server below here as comments.

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