{"id":316,"date":"2021-10-26T18:33:50","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T18:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianwebhost.com\/support\/?p=316"},"modified":"2022-09-06T13:56:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T13:56:00","slug":"create-an-email-address-cpanel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianwebhost.com\/support\/web-hosting\/cpanel-help-guides\/create-an-email-address-cpanel\/","title":{"rendered":"Create an Email Address in cPanel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"top\">Overview<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This guide will walk you through creating a new domain based email account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Add an email address<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>To create a new email account, you will need to use the Email Accounts app that can be found in the Email category of your cPanel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"990\" height=\"231\" src=\"https:\/\/christianwebhost.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/cp-email.png\" alt=\"The Email section of cPanel.\" class=\"wp-image-317\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you do not know how to access your cPanel, you can find out <a href=\"https:\/\/christianwebhost.com\/support\/2021\/10\/26\/accessing-your-cpanel\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"288\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once you click on the <strong>Email Accounts <\/strong>app in cPanel, you should see the Email Accounts menu.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1078\" height=\"283\" src=\"https:\/\/christianwebhost.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/cp-emailaccts.png\" alt=\"A list of cPanel email accounts.\" class=\"wp-image-403\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>To add an account, you need to click on the <strong>+Create <\/strong>button located on the right hand side of your screen.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"528\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/christianwebhost.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/cp-emailadd.png\" alt=\"The form used to create a new email address.\" class=\"wp-image-404\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Once the <em>Create an Email Account<\/em> page has loaded, you will see several fields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Domain<\/strong><ul><li>This is the domain that you want the account to use (this is the part after the \u2018@\u2019 symbol in the email address).<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>Username<\/strong><ul><li>This is the part before the \u2018@\u2019 symbol (you don\u2019t need to type in the \u2018@domain.com\u2019 part of the email).<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>Password<\/strong><ul><li>Here is where you enter your preferred password for this account.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Set password now \u2013 this will allow you to set the password for the account<\/li><li>Send login link to alternate email address \u2013 this will instead send an email to the email address provided and let the end user choose the password.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Regarding email passwords, please note:<ul><li>The system grades the password that you enter on a scale of 100 points.&nbsp;0&nbsp;indicates a weak password, while&nbsp;100&nbsp;indicates a very secure password.<\/li><li>Some web hosts require a minimum password strength. The green password&nbsp;<strong>Strength&nbsp;<\/strong>meter indicates that the password is equal to or greater than the required password strength.<\/li><li>For a secure, randomized password, Click&nbsp;<strong>Generate&nbsp;<\/strong>to generate a strong password. For more technical information on the password generator, read cPanel&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/documentation.cpanel.net\/display\/1152Docs\/The+Password+Generator\">Password Generator<\/a>&nbsp;<\/strong>documentation.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>Stay on this page after I click Create<\/strong><ul><li>You would check this box if you were creating several accounts. Otherwise, leave it unchecked and you will return to the email list.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Click the <strong>Create <\/strong>button to finish creating the account<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Congratulations<\/strong>, you now have a new email address and can start using it right away!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have any further questions, please be sure to reach out to our support staff by using our chat service in your <a href=\"https:\/\/christianwebhost.com\/support\/2021\/10\/26\/accessing-your-client-area\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"249\">client area<\/a> or by submitting a <a href=\"https:\/\/christianwebhost.com\/support\/2021\/10\/25\/clientarea-supportticket\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/christianwebhost.com\/support\/2021\/10\/25\/clientarea-supportticket\/\">ticket<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to create a new email address in your cPanel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2334,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cpanel-help-guides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianwebhost.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianwebhost.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianwebhost.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianwebhost.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianwebhost.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/christianwebhost.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2472,"href":"https:\/\/christianwebhost.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions\/2472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianwebhost.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianwebhost.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianwebhost.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianwebhost.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}