Setting Up Your Email
Adding New Email AddressesTo Your Account

Setting up your email accounts:

Enter your Control Panel (http://yourdomainname.com/menu) and click on the Mail Manager link.

Once you are in the Mail Manager, you will notice that you already have a a "starter" mailbox with the same name as your account username. There is also one other initial setting - a "default entry" listing.

The "default entry" is set to "rejects default email" to start. What that means is that any email not sent to a specifically created address in your account will be rejected. We strongly suggest retaining this setting because spammers routinely bombard accounts, sending to
everything @yourdomain.com name hoping that it will be forwarded to a real email account. By rejecting it you will be eliminating a large amount of unwanted email.

To add a new e-mail address:

* Click on the Add button on the left-hand side of the page.
* On the right side of the resulting screen, under New Mailbox, enter a username for the account. This will be the e-mail address you want to use without the @yourdomain.com, example: "sales" in the address "sales@yourdomain.com"
* Setup a password for the specific e-mail address.
* Choose POP or IMAP. 95% of customers use the POP style account which is the standard web email choice.

n this example we have created a mailbox called "sales", so the full address will be "sales@websecurezone.com". Next select the here link to configure the mailbox.

The final step is the mailbox configuration screen, below. You can forward email to your ISP account, save mail on the server for downloading, and create auto-responders.

# When you are finished, be sure to click "Save" button at the bottom of the screen

Comcast Users:
If your local ISP is Comcast, you should "pop" your email accounts and NOT use forwarding. For more details, see Comcast and Email.

For general purposes we recommend that you forward your mail boxes to your dial-up email account(s) (as in the example image above) rather than pop each individual account(s), especially if you have your email application (say Outlook Express, etc.) checking for email every 5 minutes or so. You will have fewer "can't retrieve email at this time" or "password not working" messages if you do so. Forwarding mail to dial-up account(s) is how we have all of our boxes set both personal and business.

"Forwarding" Caution:
The following "forwarding" set-ups will cause problems:
Forwarding mail from box1 -> box2 -> off server or
Forwarding mail from box1 -> box2 -> box3.
In both cases, the mail lands in box2. Multiple forwards don't work, in order to prevent email loops which can crash the server.

Autoresponder Caution: We strongly recommend that you DO NOT use autoresponders. Autoresponders were once a handy novelty, but now their value is far outweighed by the damage they cause when they receive spam and send it onward. Autoresponders are now a leading tool for spammers to pass mail through "innocent" domains. Don't help the spammers make you look bad!