How to Create a Pop Email Account

One of the most vital parts of keeping in touch internally or outside with clients and visitors to your website is to maintain a variety of email accounts. When you first set up your web hosting account, you also bought the email functionality that goes along with it. As you grow and find more people that you'll want to keep in touch with through company email, you may discover yourself wanting to create a whole bunch of new POP email accounts. This process is not that difficult, but it can be a little daunting if you've never done it before. This tutorial will give you step-by-step instructions on how to create a POP email account using your cPanel interface.

How to Create a POP Email Account

  1. Make sure that you are already logged in to your cPanel account
  2. Click on the "Email" accounts icon
  3. There should be a POP email account already listed here. It came with your account
  4. But we want to use a different account, so let's create one
  5. Enter the new email address for the POP account in the box provided
  6. Be sure to specify what domain or domains this account will be linked to
  7. Enter a password for the new account
  8. Reenter the password in the box provided
  9. Set a quota limit, if you like
  10. Click on the "Create" button
  11. On the next page, click "No"
  12. Congratulations, the new POP account has been created
  13. From the main email page, you can check email accounts, change quotas, or configure your mailboxes
  14. You can also delete the accounts from here
  15. Enter as many POP email accounts as you wish

 

More About cPanel

 

cPanel is an extremely useful and easy-to-use web-hosting interface that allows web administrators to quickly control their site's vital files, email accounts, databases and other assets. It is most often licensed to web hosting providers and offered to customers and website owners as part of their hosting package.