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CPanel X Webmail

You can read your online e-mail using NeoMail, Horde, or SquirrelMail if your web hosting account allows this. All of these popular web mail applications allow you to read your e-mail, save them, keep an address book, and perform all of the other basic e-mail functions that you are used to. The main difference between web mail and an offline e-mail applications, such as Eudora or Microsoft Outlook Express, is that all of these functions are performed online, rather than on your own computer, and offline applications generally provide more features.

Web mail is optional. You can still use your favorite offline e-mail applications, if you prefer. You can even use a combination of web mail applications and another tool - you can check your e-mail online, perhaps when you're at work, and download your e-mail to your computer when you get home. You can automatically configure Outlook Express, or manually configure other mail applications to read your e-mail offline.

To read your e-mail online:
http://www.yourdomainname.com/webmail
Note: You can also save this link as a bookmark, so that you can access it quickly
Click on the web application that you would like to use.  For more information on the three webmail clients, CLICK HERE
You are now in the web mail window for your default e-mail address. Please refer to the following topic links if you need more information about the web mail application you are using.

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CPanel X Add / Remove accounts

You can set up as many POP (Post Office Protocol) e-mail accounts as you require, up to the maximum limit set for your hosting account. Each one of these is in the standard e-mail formation of address@yourdomain.com. As with your default e-mail address, you can access these accounts through web mail or through your own offline e-mail application.

To add an e-mail account:

• Click on the Add/Remove Accounts link in the Mail area.
• Click on the Add Account link.
• Enter the first part of the e-mail address and the password for the account in E-mail and Password fields.
• Enter the maximum size limit of this mailbox in the Quota field, if required. The size limit is in megabytes. Not entering a number means that the mailbox size is only limited by the available disk space.
• Click on the Create button.

Your new account has been added. Refer to Configuring Outlook Express to read e-mail if you want to use Outlook Express to read e-mail received by the new account.

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CPanel X Default Address

Any e-mail that is sent to an unknown account at your domain name, such as unknown@yourdomain.com, gets automatically rerouted to your default e-mail account. All web site accounts are automatically assigned a default e-mail address - user@yourdomain.com - which you can change, if required.

To set your default e-mail address:

• Click on the Default Address link in the Mail area.
• Click on the Set Default Address link.
• Enter the complete e-mail address of the new default in the field next to your web site name drop-down list.
• Note: You can enter :blackhole: to throw away all incoming mail, or :fail: no such address here to bounce the e-mail back to the sender.
• Click on the Change button. Your new default e-mail address has now been set.

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CPanel X Auto-Responders

Autoresponders are e-mail messages that are sent automatically when an e-mail arrives for a specific e-mail account. Autoresponders are most commonly used for an "Out of Office" style message to inform your correspondents that you are not available, without you having to reply manually. You can have more than one autoresponder on one account. You can use plain text or include HTML code in the autoresponder, and choose from a wide variety of character sets.

To add an autoresponder:

• Click on the Autoresponders link in the Mail area.
• Click on the Add Autoresponder link.
• Enter the address of the account that the autoresponder responds to in the Email field.
• Enter your name or address in the From field. You do not have to put anything in this field.
• Enter the subject line of the autoresponder in the Subject field.
• Click on the required character set for this autoresponder from the Character Set drop-down list, if required.
• Click on the HTML Message tick box if you want to include HTML code in the autoresponder.
• Enter the autoresponder message in the Body field. You can not use HTML code in this field - plain text only.
• Click on the Create button.

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CPanel X Email Filtering

You can block an e-mail using spam filters. There are many definitions of spam, but one particularly useful one is the following:

Spam is the electronic version of junk mail, and has been around since the Internet was created. E-mail filters are a way of filtering your e-mail to remove unwanted mail based on a variety of criteria. You can block any sort of e-mail, not just mail of a commercial nature. Blocked mail can be deleted automatically or sent to another e-mail address or script. These filters are quite flexible - some examples are provided after the instruction on how to add a spam filter below. All filters are cumulative.

To add an e-mail filter:

• Click on the E-mail Filtering link in the Mail area.
• Click on the Add Filter link.
• Click on the required header field in the first drop-down list. These are the various fields in any e-mail message.
• Click on the required filter action in the second drop-down list. This action will act on the text entered in the third field.
  • equals - match the text exactly (whole words only). "Credit" will block "Credit".
  • matches regex - matches the text based on regular expression (regex) rules. Regular expressions are a powerful but complex area. You do not need to use regular expression filters for most circumstances. Refer to these two good introductory tutorials - Using Regular Expressions and Learning to Use Regular Expressions - for more information.
  • contains - match the specified text in any circumstance. "porn" will block "porn" and "pornography".
  • begins with - match the specified text when it is the beginning of a word. "porn" will block "porn" and "pornography" but not "teenporn".
    
• Enter the filter text in the third field. This text is case sensitive.
• Enter the destination for the filtered e-mail in the Destination field. There are three separate types of destination:
  • Destroy the e-mail - Enter Discard in the field.
  • Redirect to another address - Enter the e-mail address to which to redirect the e-mail.
  • Redirect to a script - Enter the full script path on the machine that hosts your web site.
• Click on the Activate button.
  

Example:
To redirect all e-mail from "broderick@nicayla.net", enter: From, equals, broderick@nicayla.net, some other email address.
To delete all e-mail from nicayla.net, enter: From, contains, nicayla.net, Discard.
To delete all references to pornography, enter: Any Header, contains, porn, Discard.
To discard all e-mail that Spam Assassin has marked as spam, enter: SpamAssassin Spam Header, begins with, yes, Discard.

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CPanel X Forwarders

Forwards simply allow you to automatically forward e-mail sent to one account to another account. This is useful when you work at two separate locations, or have gone on holiday.

To forward mail from one account to two or more accounts, just add two or more forwards for the account that is being forwarded.

To add a forwarder:

• Click on the Forwarders link in the Mail area.
• Click on the Add Forwarder link.
• Enter the first part of the e-mail address that will be forwarded in the first field.
• Choose the required domain from the drop-down list.
• Enter the full e-mail address that the forwarder will forward mail to in the second field.
• Click on the Add Forwarder button.

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CPanel X Spam Assassin

The spam-identification tactics used include: 

• header analysis: spammers use a number of tricks to mask their identities, fool you into thinking they've sent a valid mail, or fool you into thinking you must have subscribed at some stage. SpamAssassin tries to spot these.
• text analysis: again, spam mails often have a characteristic style (to put it politely), and some characteristic disclaimers and CYA text. SpamAssassin can spot these, too.
• blacklists: SpamAssassin supports many useful existing blacklists, such as mail-abuse.org, ordb.org or others.
• Razor: Vipul's Razor is a collaborative spam-tracking database, which works by taking a signature of spam messages. Since spam typically operates by sending an identical message to hundreds of people, Razor short-circuits this by allowing the first person to receive a spam to add it to the database -- at which point everyone else will automatically block it.

Once identified, the mail can then be optionally tagged as spam for later filtering using the user's own mail user-agent application.

Features

• Wide-spectrum: SpamAssassin uses a wide variety of local and network tests to identify spam signatures. This makes it harder for spammers to identify one aspect which they can craft their messages to work around.
• Free software: it is distributed under the same terms and conditions as Perl itself.
• Easy to extend: Rules, weights and user-visible text are stored in text configuration files as much as possible, which the user (or sysadmin) can edit to modify or add new rules.
• Flexible: SpamAssassin encapsulates its logic in a well-designed, abstract API. As a result, it's not limited to the traditional local-delivery-to-spool case; using the Mail::SpamAssassin classes, it can be used in a wide variety of setups. This means that SpamAssassin support is available for a variety of mail systems -- traditional procmail, a Mail::Audit plugin, qmail, sendmail, Postfix, many others.

To enable Spam Assassin:

• Click on the Spam Assassin link in the Mail area.
• Click on the Enable Spam Assassin button.

Using SPAMASSASSIN with HORDE

To check the SPAM mail, go into Horde and on the dropdown menu at the far right, select the spam directory. 
(The spam directory is not created until the first piece of spam is sent there, so if you just enabled it, it might not be there.)

Using SPAMASSASSIN with OUTLOOK

Set up an Outlook account (with the same settings as your normal one) but use: user@domain.com /spam
Don't forget the space in between your email address and the "/spam"

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