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Setting up Your Email Account in the Email Control Center

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Last Updated: November 24, 2008 4:50 PM

Once you purchase email accounts or hosting with email accounts, you need to set up and customize your email address and mailbox. Your new email account should be ready to use within 90 minutes of setup.

NOTE: If you would like to set up multiple email addresses at once, see Setting Up Multiple Email Addresses in your Email Account.

To Set Up an Email Address

  1. Log in to your Account Manager.
  2. In the My Products section, click Email.
  3. To use a free email credit when the Email option does not display in your My Products section, click Free Products, click Email Account List, click Use Credit, select the domain you want to use from the list, and then click Continue. The account displays as a new account in the Email Account list.
  4. Click Manage Account for the email account you want to manage.
  5. If an option to add addresses or view all email plans displays, click View All.
  6. Click Add for the plan to which you want to add an email address. The Add Email page displays.
  7. In the Add Email section, select whether you are using a domain registered or hosted with us or a domain registered or hosted elsewhere, and then in the Email Address field, enter the first part of the email address that you want to create and specify the domain.
  8. In the Password and Confirm Password fields, enter your password.
  9. Use the following fields to finish customizing and setting up your email address:
    Incoming Box Size
    Specify the amount of storage space within your account to allot to this email address.
    Related Products
    If you have a Calendar account, specify whether you want to set up the email address.
    Forward Carbon Copy
    Enter the email address to which you want message copies sent. Separate multiple addresses with a comma..
    Incoming Mail Settings, Make Catchall Account option
    Automatically forwards email messages sent to an unknown address at your domain to this account.
    Incoming Mail Settings, Enable spam filtering for this account
    Enables our state-of-the-art spam filter.
    SMTP Relaying
    Select the maximum number of relays you want to send per day.
  10. To set an automatic response to send to email addresses from which you received email messages, complete the following:
    Set Auto-Responder
    Enables the automatic response feature..
    Auto-Responder message
    Enter the message you want to automatically send to email addresses from which you received email messages.
    From Name
    The name you want to display as the sender of the email message.
    Message Subject
    The subject you want to use in the email message.
    Start Time
    The date and time on which you want to start sending automatic email responses.
    End Time
    The date and time on which you want to stop sending automatic email responses.
  11. Click OK.

For information about setting up your email account to work with a specific email client, see one of the following tutorials:

Setting Up Your Email in Microsoft Outlook 2007

Setting Up Microsoft Entourage to Access your Email Account