{"id":1228,"date":"2020-09-11T13:03:25","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T13:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2020\/09\/11\/4437981-how-to-create-and-manage-email-accounts-on-cpanel-at-hostinger\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T12:12:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T12:12:14","slug":"4437981-how-to-create-and-manage-email-accounts-on-cpanel-at-hostinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/4437981-how-to-create-and-manage-email-accounts-on-cpanel-at-hostinger\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Create and Manage Email Accounts on cPanel at Hostinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no-margin\">You can easily manage your email accounts from your cPanel. Just head to the Email section and select <b>Email Accounts<\/b>:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2020\/09\/82beb0a0-ecf8-41b4-9cdc-67f552b05bf5.jpg\" alt=\"The Email Accounts option on cPanel\"><\/div><h2 id=\"h_77234beae8\">How to Create an Email Account<\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">Once on the <b>Email Accounts<\/b> section, click on <b>Create<\/b>:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2020\/09\/c7180088-f272-4b93-9ea9-6a9918a7f75f.jpg\" alt=\"The Email Accounts section on cPanel showing how to create a mailbox\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">In the next page, enter the following:<\/p><ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\"><b>Domain <\/b>&ndash; select the domain or <b><a href=\"\/support\/4469008-how-to-create-and-delete-subdomains-in-cpanel\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">subdomain<\/a><\/b> from the dropdown list <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\"><b>Username<\/b> &ndash; specify the username for your email account. Please note that the username cannot contain the word <b>cpanel<\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\"><b>Password <\/b>&ndash; choose to set the password right away or send a login link. The password <b>has to meet<\/b> cPanel&rsquo;s password strength recommendations<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\"><b>Optional Settings<\/b> &ndash; click <b>Edit Settings<\/b> to access options for adjusting storage space (which must be within your current hosting plan&rsquo;s total disk space limit), creating folders, and sending a welcome message<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><p class=\"no-margin\">Once all is good to go, click on <b>Create<\/b>:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2020\/09\/acf6f7b8-7d3d-4d44-9b6b-be2267165543.jpg\" alt=\"The fields required to create an email account\"><\/div><div class=\"intercom-interblocks-callout\" style=\"background-color: #e3e7fa80;border-color: #334bfa33\">\n<p class=\"no-margin\">To create an email account for an <b>IDN domain<\/b> (Internationalized Domain Name), convert it to <b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.punycoder.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" rel=\"noopener\">Punycode<\/a> <\/b>and<b> <a href=\"\/support\/4548561-how-to-add-a-website-in-cpanel\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">add the domain name<\/a><\/b> to your hosting plan &#128161; <\/p>\n<\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><hr><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><h2 id=\"h_af8dac39e9\">How to Manage Email Accounts<\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">You can find the list of existing mailboxes and their management options on the <b>Email Accounts <\/b>section:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2020\/09\/d3b7305b-31ae-4846-86e3-666f53cfd049.jpg\" alt=\"The mailbox management options on the Email Accounts section\"><\/div><ol>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Open the <b>webmail <\/b>client<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Manage the email account&rsquo;s <b>settings, <\/b>including the option to <b>delete it<\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Get the configuration details to connect your email account to a device or email client<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol><p class=\"no-margin\"><b>NOTE<\/b><\/p><ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Email account deletion is <b>not reversible<\/b>. When a mailbox is removed, all messages previously stored in the account are <b>permanently deleted<\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creating a new email account and managing already created email accounts on cPanel at Hostinger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-email-cpanel"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/4437981-how-to-create-and-manage-email-accounts-on-cpanel-at-hostinger\/","default":1},{"locale":"es-ES","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/es\/support\/4437981-como-configurar-y-administrar-una-cuenta-de-email-para-el-email-de-cpanel-en-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"fr-FR","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/fr\/support\/4437981-comment-configurer-et-gerer-un-compte-email-pour-l-email-de-cpanel-chez-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"id-ID","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/id\/support\/4437981-bagaimana-cara-membuat-dan-menghapus-akun-email-gratis-di-hostinger-cpanel\/","default":0},{"locale":"pt-PT","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/br\/support\/4437981-como-criar-e-deletar-contas-de-e-mail-no-cpanel-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"uk-UA","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/ua\/support\/4437981-----\/","default":0}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4791,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions\/4791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}