Written on August 31, 2010 by Louisville Geek
- Open Internet Explorer.
- Go to http://webmail.YOURURL.com.
- Enter your full email address as the user name.
- Enter your email password as the password, then click OK.
- Click the Auto Responders icon.
- Click the Add Autoresponder button.
- Enter your full email address in the From field.
- Enter the subject within the Subject field that you’d like to use as your out of office notification.
- Enter the message within the Body field that you’d like to use as your out of office message.
- Click Create/Modify
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Written on May 18, 2010 by Louisville Geek
Occasionally Macs go wacky.. so to speak. Inside your Mac is some non-volatile ram called PRAM – short for Parameter Ram. It stores a few settings inside it that enables your Mac to function. However, sometime these might get corrupt, so a quick troubleshooting technique is to reset the PRAM. You will lose a few settings such as your Time zone, volume, etc.. but they are all negligible.
You wold be amazed at what doing this can fix — it fixes stuff not even on Apple’s list of things it’s supposed to fix! Resetting PRAM is not the first thing I pull out of the arsenal. I always try repairing permissions, cleaning caches, etc… but if none of that works, clear the PRAM. Here’s how to do it: Shut down your Mac. Locate the keys: COMMAND OPTION P R Once you power on the Mac, before the gray screen appears – hold these keys down together until your Mac chimes 4 times. After it chimes for the fourth time, you can release them, and your Mac should start up as normal. Note: Apple’s documents say if you have a RAID, don’t do this, or you could have trouble booting up. Most people don’t have a RAID.. and if you do.. you know it. To read more about it, check out these official Apple documents. Mac OS X: What’s stored in PRAM? Resetting your Mac’s PRAM and NVRAM Mac OS X: Computer won’t start up after resetting PRAM
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Written on May 5, 2010 by Louisville Geek
Mac Mail Setup
- Open up Mail.app and press Command+Comma to invoke the Preferences window.
- Switch to the “Accounts” pane and press the + button in the lower-left corner.
- Under “Account Information”, fill out the following information:
- Account Type: POP or IMAP (we recommend IMAP)
- Email Address: email-name@your-domain-name.com
- Incoming Mail Server: mail.your-domain-name.com
- Username: email-name@your-domain-name.com
- Password: your email password
- Note that POP uses port 110 and IMAP uses port 143
- Select “Add Server…” from the Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP) pop-up menu. Here are the details for it:
- Outgoing Mail Server: mail.your-domain-name.com
- Server port: 26
- Use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL): NO
- Authentication: password
- User Name: email-name@your-domain-name.com
- Password: your email password
- Dismiss the window by pressing “OK.”
- Back in the “Accounts” pane, switch to the “Advanced” tab and do not check the box marked “Use SSL” towards the bottom.
- The rest of the process is short and sweet, and merely involves changing your preferences to enable POP access.
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Written on May 5, 2010 by Louisville Geek
How to configure an e-mail account in Outlook Express
If you have an email account set up on the server, you may want to configure Outlook or Outlook express to send/receive email from this email address. To configure Outlook to connect to your account, please do the following:
- Open Outlook Express
- In the top menu, click Tools
- Click the Accounts link
- Select the Mail tab
- Click the Add button
- Click Mail
- In the Display Name field, type any name you wish to associate with this email. This is only for aesthetic purposes. It doesn’t matter what name you use in this field.
- Click the Next button
- In the field to the right of E-mail Address, type the full email address including the domain name.
- Click the Next button
- For the Incoming and Outgoing servers, put mail.yourdomin.com or your server’s IP address.
- Click the Next button
- For the Account Name, type the full email address (including the domain name).
- In the Password section, type the password for the email.
- Click the Next button
- Click the Finish button
- You should still see the Mail tab, so click the Properties button
- Select the Servers tab
- Check the box at the bottom which says “My server requires authentication”
- Select the Advanced tab
- At the top you will see “Server Port Numbers” and “Outgoing mail (SMTP):” with a value of 25. You need to change this to port 26 if you are not able to send emails using 25.
- Click the Apply button, OK button, and the Close button.
- Now you can test your email.
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Written on May 5, 2010 by Louisville Geek
How to log into Webmail?
We do have video tutorials on how to login to webmail.
Webmail is a great feature offered by cPanel. You can access email from any PC connected to the Internet. There are two ways to log into the default webmail supplied with cPanel. Type the following information into the browser.
If the domain name has propagated type:
http://www.yourdomainname.com/webmail
or
http://webmail.yourdomainname.com
You can also access it by going through the default webmail port number of 2095 as in the following example.
If the domain has propagated type:
http://www.yourdomainname.com:2095
Once you go to the address above, you will be prompted for your user name and password. Be aware, it is not asking you for your cPanel user name and password. All email account user names look just like the email address.
In the user name section, type your full e-mail address. (Example: you@yoursite.com)
In the password section, provide the password which you provided when you created the email account. Then hit enter.
You are now logged into webmail.
We have several video tutorials that will assist you with understanding the differences and functionality of the three webmail clients we allow everyone to use.
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Written on May 5, 2010 by Louisville Geek
How to add/remove an e-mail account
By default, cPanel comes with 1 primary email account. I strongly recommend not to use this email account and to set up a new one instead. To do so, please do the following:
- Click Mail
- Click Add/Remove/Manage Accounts
- Click Add Account at the bottom
- In the box to the right of E-mail, type the beginning section of your email address in the drop down menus to the right of the @, select the appropriate domain to associate the email to.
- To the left of Password, type the password you would like associated with the email address. This will be useful later, when you setup outlook or enter the email account via webmail.
- To the right of Quota, type the number of megabytes which you would like the email box to be. Hint: If it is too low you may quickly run into an issue with emails bouncing.
- Click Create
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Written on May 5, 2010 by Louisville Geek
How do I create email accounts?
Before you read, try watching our movie tutorial.
The same steps work for your primary, addon, and subdomains.
To create an email account:
- Login to cPanel and click Email Accounts.
- Fill in the name you want and select the domain name from the drop-down.
- Type the desired password twice.
- Change the quota if you want.
- Click Create.
*NOTE: By default you have no email address setup. The main username may look like it is setup as an email, but if you wish to use it, you will need to add it as an email account.
You cannot create emails with a script or SSH.
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Written on April 15, 2010 by Louisville Geek
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Written on April 15, 2010 by Louisville Geek
Please watch our movie tutorial on how to login to cPanel.
If you recently purchased a new account with Louisville Geek, you should type the following information into the address bar of your browser:
http://YourSitesIPAddress/cpanel
(Example: http://1.2.3.4/cpanel)
If your domain name is already pointing to Louisville Geek, then you can use the domain name to log into cPanel. Here is an example:
http://www.yourdomainname.com/cpanel
or
http://cpanel.yourdomainname.com/
Click here to read secure login to cPanel.
The username and password can be found in your welcome email. If you do not have the correct login, please contact HostGator via phone, live chat, or email sales@hostgator.com for help.
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Written on April 14, 2010 by Louisville Geek
What is the default address?
It is a catchall mailbox that receives all emails written to a non-existing name @ your domain.
Why is this disabled?
We disable Default Address because if you don’t know how to use it, it can cause your account to flood with email.
How do I enable it?
Please contact HostGator via phone or live chat and ask for your “catchall email to be enabled.”
Once enabled, what do I do?
Go through the drop down and make sure every domain’s Current Setting is “:fail: No Such User Here”.
If the settings are wrong, or you are not sure, follow these steps.
- Select the first domain name in the drop-down.
- Choose “Discard with error to sender (at SMTP time)”.
- Set the “Failure Message (seen by sender):” to No such person at this address.
- Click the Change button.
- Repeat for every name in the drop-down.
This will prevent your account from filling up with unnoticed spam.
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