How to Set Up a Custom Email Address in cPanel

By Aslam Saah | December 6, 2024

If you’re wondering, I just Bought a Domain Name, Now, what next is to have an email address for it? This article explains how to set up an email address for your domain name.

After updating the nameserver given by the hosting provider and its propagated, the next step is to create a custom email address in cPanel with your domain name (such as [email protected]) immediately without wasting any time. For an upgraded service, you can purchase professional email hosting dedicated from an email server for your mailing.

1. Create an email account

Step 1: Log into your cPanel account with the Url ‘’Yourdomainname/cpanel” or ‘’websiteip:2083”

Note: Replace Yourdomainname with your actual domain or website with your actual IP

Step2: Once Logged in, navigate to the email section and click Email Accounts

Step3: Create a new email account

On the right-side corner, you will see the option create click on that

Step 4: The New Pop-up window will open, Fill in the details for the new email account.

Enter the username that you want to associate with the email address.

Set a strong password with a combination of special characters, letters, and numbers.

Next, click on optional settings – There you can adjust the mailbox quota as per your need. This sets the maximum amount of storage space for the email account. You can enter the new quota limit or choose the default limit of 1024 MB.

Step 5: Then click on the Create button

2. Accessing your Email Accounts.

Step 1: To access your newly created email account, go to your cPanel account navigate to the email section, and click email accounts.

Step 2: Then click on “Check Email” to access your mail

Step 3: Now click on the ‘’open’’ button, to log in to your webmail account and manage your email account.

You can tick the “Open my Inbox when I log in” box option to log in to your account directly by clicking check email from the next time.

You can also log in to your webmail account by following the below links.

• https://yourdomain.com:2096

• https://yourdomain.com/webmail

Note: Replace yourdomain name with your actual domain

3. Managing Email accounts.

Step 1: If you want to change the password or need to adjust your mail quota space for an email account. Return to the Email section and click Account.

Step 2: Then click the manage button, as shown in the below screenshot.

Change password: Then you will option to change the password for your email account under the security option, Change the password or enter the generate button to a random password and confirm it.

Change mailbox quotas in the same manage button and navigate to the “Allocated storage space”, you will have the option to change. Enter a new quota limit or leave the default one

Then click on the “Updated email setting” to save your above changes

4. Delete Email account.

Step 1: If you want to Delete an email account, go to the Email section and click the Email account.

Step2: Choose the account, that you wish to delete and click on the “Manage” button

Step 3: Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on Delete Email Account to delete your email account.