Log in to cPanel and scroll down to the Email pane.
Click on Email Accounts.
This interface allows you to add, manage, and delete email accounts.
To create a new email account, click Create.
A new interface will appear and displays the account creation options, as well as your account’s quota status.
Use the Domain menu to select the domain on which you want to create the email account.
This option only appears if you have more than one domain on your account.
To see this menu, click Manage Subdomains or Manage Aliases to check your account's domain configuration.
A new interface will appear where you can find the links to these interfaces in the Missing a Domain? menu on the right side of the interface.
Enter a new email address in the Username text box.
Note that you cannot enter cpanel as an account name when you create an email account.
In the Security section, perform one of the following actions:
Select Set password now. Enter a secure password in the Password text box.
It is recommended that you click Generate to let the system create a secure password for you.
Select Provide alternate email and enter an email address if you the system will send a password creation link to this address.
In the Storage Space section, either enter a custom disk storage size to limit the account’s email quota size or select Unlimited if you do not want to limit the account’s email quota size.
In the Automatically Create Folders for Plus Addressing section, select one of the following options:
- Automatically Create Folders — When you receive an email that uses plus addressing, the system will create a new folder. The server moves a message that uses plus addressing to a designated folder if the folder exists. For example, the system would place a message to user+plusaddress@example.com in the plusaddress folder.
- Do Not Automatically Create Folders. — When you receive an email that uses plus addressing, the system will not create a new folder. Instead, it delivers the message to the INBOX folder.
Select the Send welcome email with instructions to set up a mail client checkbox to send the user mail client set up instructions.
The user can access this message via Webmail.
This message contains the incoming (IMAP and POP3) and outgoing (SMTP) server details.
It also contains the .mobileconfig file.
This file contains the mail client set up information for use with Apple® devices.
Select Stay on this page after I click Create to create another email account after you create this one.
Click Create to create the account and return to the Email Accounts interface.
You can click Go Back to cancel this action and return to the Email Accounts interface.
