Email or Electronic mail is the medium to communicate messages between the sender and receiver(s) over the Internet. It can be used for personal interaction as well as formal communication as in case of corporate or business. Today most of the individuals have their Email account on some or the other well-known sites. But when talking about Business Email, it’s about being more formal or systematic.
What is Business Email?
It’s a medium of communication amidst the business sector for establishing relations with colleagues, sponsors, business partners or investors. One can’t go casual about composing a business email rather one must follow certain rules and ethics to carry out the same.
You can opt for already available business templates or create your personal one too. Usually any business email is linked with its corresponding business domain name, where the main website resides. Adopting a professional mail account increases your business credibility. It also offers you with the following benefits:
- High class and professional communication
- Establishes trust
- Benefits at affordable price
- Customized storage space
- White-label email hosting
- Enhanced features like customizing mailbox, mail monitoring etc…
Also going for Linux based web hosting cPanel will benefit you in many ways. Looking for help to create an Email Account in cPanel? Well cPanel gives you an easy to user interface to perform the same.
Let’s go through step by step process in setting up your Email Account
Step 1. Open cPanel and Login
Step2: Go to the Email Section à Click Email Accounts
Step3: A screen displaying ‘Email Accounts’ appears on your screen. Fill in the following details
| Email: | This represents name of the account to be created that should not already exist. |
| Domain: | Choose the name of your domain from the drop down menu that must be linked to your email account |
| Password | Provide a strong password using combination of alpha numeric and special characters (or use the help of Password generator to create) |
| Password (again) | Re-type the above password exactly the same |
| Mailbox Quota: | Choose the size of the mailbox quota (in MB) or choose unlimited according to your requirement. |
Step 4: Once the above fields are filled carefully, click the ‘Create Account’ Button.
Step 5: The Email Account you created will be listed in the Email Accounts Section
The above process of creating Email Account is also applicable to primary domain as well as other sub domains.
In addition there are email accounts holders that requires ‘do not reply’ option in order to disable emails coming to an email address. All you have to do is follow the below steps
Send Only Email (do-not-reply addresses)
Step 1. Open cPanel and Login
Step2: Go to the Email Section à Click Email Forwarders
Step 3. Click Add Forwarder option that is displayed under the Create an Email Account Forwarders
Step 4. Add a New Forwarder page is being displayed on the screen. Enter the following details:
- Address to Forward – Enter the Email address from which mails will be forwarded
- Domain – Choose the required domain for the above email address
- Select the option ‘Discard and send an error to the sender’ (at SMTP time)
- Failure Message(seen by sender) – enter the failure message which the users will receive
In case you don’t want your users to receive failure message, click Advanced Options à Select the option Discard (Not Recommended)
- Finally, click Add Forwarder