Creating a New Email Account

To create an email account please do the following steps.

  1. Log on to SiteManager if you haven't already logged on.

  2. Go to Email menu.

  3. Inside the email menu, there are links where you can add the types of email accounts described above. Click on the link and follow the instructions on the next screen.

Depending on which type of account you want to create, you will be presented with different options:

  • POP/IMAP account. You can limit the maximum size of the mail account. If a new email arrives when the mailbox is full, then it will be bounced back. You can specify 0 (zero) if you don't want to limit the size.

  • Email forwarder. On the add new mail forwarder menu, you need to specify the forwarding destination. You can also specify more than one email address by separating them with space.

  • Mailing list. On the add new mailing list menu, you will need to specify the owner of the mailing list. You also need to specify the type and membership restriction of mailing list. You can alter mailing list configuration later after the mailing list has been created.

  • Auto responder. On the add new autoresponder menu, you need to specify forwarding destination where you want any incoming email be forwarded to and the contents of autoresponder email, including from, subject and the body of autoresponder mail.

  • Email bouncer. You need to specify the message that will be returned to the sender when an email sent to this address.

  • Email blackhole. You don't have to specify anything when adding a blackhole email address.

  • Custom mail handler. You need to specify the custom action to take whenever an email message arrives. Specify the action in dot-qmail format.

Caution

Custom mail handler feature is for advanced users only, you need to know about qmail server in order to use this feature.

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