The Mystic Bird

Webmail is another way to access your email when away from your computer at home or the office. This can be done by way of a public computer for example in a library or other public place. Or, if you just prefer to use webmail over say Outlook or Thunderbird.

First, an email account must first be created in order to access it’s webmail function. If you’ve not created one yet, read here to see how.

You can access webmail in any of the following ways:

http://yourdomain.com/webmail/
http://yourdomain.com:2095
https://yourdomain.com:2096 (secure)

Note: replace ‘yourdomain.com’ with your actual domain name. (more…)

Forwarder’s are just that: They forward email from one account to another. This is done for many reasons such as for signing up for subscriptions, membership to message boards, mailing lists and a host of other reasons. It’s mostly done for privacy as well as to funnel email to one main account. If for some reason you begin to get spam to one of your forwarders, you’ll know then that the place you used it on has sold your email address or it’s been harvested by spammers. You can then delete it and create another if you decide to.

To set up a forwarder, first logon to your account’s cPanel and click on Forwarders as seen in the image below:

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Taking up where I left off with creating an email account, let’s take a look at configuring it to work with keeping spam from entering your inbox. This is an ever-growing problem these days and also an ongoing battle. There are many ways to set up Spam Assassin from strict filtering to mild. How it best works for you will be best determined by experimenting with the settings for your account.

Begin by logging on to your account’s cPanel and clicking on Spam Assassin.

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This will be the first in a series of tutorials concerning managing your account’s cPanel and getting the most use of it. I’ve run across many posts on different forums from folks who have trouble working their way through the cPanel and it’s various offerings, features and functions. This series aims to help alleviate that with a layman’s approach to getting the most of cPanel and how to go about it.

Please note: cPanel comes in many different configurations and styles so keep in mind that the screenshots you see here for illustration purposes only. Your cPanel style or configuration may differ.

I’ve made 4 tutorials for the Mail feature in cPanel. You can view them in any order but they might be better read in order as listed below so as not to create any confusion.

Creating Email Accounts in cPanel : here
Configure Spam Assassin
Setting up a Forwarder
Accessing Email via WebMail

First up: cPanel’s Mail function

After logging into your account’s cPanel (which by the way can be simply done by typing yourprimarydomain.com/cpanel and then entering your logon details) you’ll see the various features displayed that your web host has configured for your account. If you’re on a shared server, you may or may not have some features. This depends on your web host. (more…)