The
control panel (cPanel) offers several tools for maintaining and
customising your email, including adding new accounts, auto responders,
spam filtering, virus scanning, aliases / forwarding. It also gives you
access to web statistics that give detailed accounts of the traffic to
your site.
How to access Control Panel or 'cPanel' Enter www.yourdomain/cpanel Then enter your username and password (these were provided in your Welcome Email).
Help with cPanel See the Animated Tutorials page in the main menu on the left. Additional help can be found in the Help section within cPanel. The Help link is in the top right of the cPanel.
email management tools
Add / remove email account(s) You
can set up as many POP (Post Office Protocol) email accounts as you
require, up to your maximum limit. Each one of these is in the standard
email formation of
As with your default email
address, you can access these accounts through webmail or through your
own offline email application.
Default email account Any
email that is sent to an unknown account at your domain name - eg,
- is re-routed automatically to your default
email account. This account is set to reject automatically any email
not
addressed to a real user, and so help to avoid spam - spammers often
send to made-up addresses
on the off-chance that they will get through to someone. However, if
you want to receive any emails sent to your domain regardless of
whether they're addressed to a real user or not, you can set the
default email account to forward the emails to a POP account set up by
you.
Auto-responders Auto-responders
are email messages that are sent automatically when an email arrives
for a specific email account. Auto-responders 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 auto-responder on one account. You can use plain
text or include HTML code in the auto-responder, and choose from a wide
variety of character sets.
Email filtering You can block an email using spam filters. There are many definitions of spam - this one's particularly useful: Spam
is the electronic version of junk mail, and has been around since the
internet was created. Email filters are a way of filtering your email
to remove unwanted mail based on a variety of criteria. You can block
any sort of email, not just mail of a commercial nature. Blocked mail
can be deleted automatically or sent to another email 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.
Aliases / Forwarding Forwards allow you automatically to forward email sent to one account on
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.
Email domain forwarders If
you have any parked domains in your account, you can specify that any
email to a user in one domain will be forwarded to the same user in
another domain - eg,
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Email address trace cPanel enables you to trace the delivery path of an email address, from your server to the destination server.
Mailscanner MailScanner
lets you decide what happens to spam and virus-infected emails sent to
your domain. You can turn spam and virus scanning on or off (not
recommended!). Spam can also be delivered to you, deleted, or forwarded
to another email account. Low-scoring spam is tagged as "{Spam?}" and
high-scoring spam as "{Spam}", so you can easily set up your own
filters in your local email program.
Web statistics
Web stats This is a great tool, easy to use and easy to understand.
Accessed via your Control Panel, Web stats gives you a wide range of information about your website and who uses it, including: • a detailed monthly summary of hits • information on which pages of your site are visited most, and how long people stay there • where the hits come from, and when • information on how much space your website uses • error logs • stats on subdomains too • all of it archived and retrievable • and all provided as a graphical summary display.
Backup
click hereBackup Another excellent, and extremely important tool, again accessed via your Control Panel: Backup allows you to download the daily, weekly, or monthly backup
file of your entire website. If your computer crashes, or your personal backups are
destroyed, these files allow you to recover your site in a convenient
manner (you could also use FTP to download each file, but it would take
much longer as the files are not compressed).cPanel
Add / remove email account(s)
Default email account
Auto-responders
Email filtering
Email address trace
Mailscanner
Web stats
Backup