Mail

Add / remove email account(s)
You can set up as many POP (Post Office Protocol) email accounts as you require, up to your maximum limit. Each one of these is in the standard email formation of address@yourdomain.com. As with your default email address, you can access these accounts through webmail or through your own offline email application.

Default email account
Any email that is sent to an unknown account at your domain name, such as unknown@yourdomain.com, is automatically re-routed to your default email account. By default this account is set to reject any email not addressed to a real user, as spammers often send to made-up addresses on the off-chance that they will get through to someone. However, if you want to receive any emails sent to your domain regardless of whether or not they're addressed to a real user, you can set the default email account to forward the emails to a POP account that you set up.

Auto-responders
Auto-responders are email messages that are sent automatically when an email arrives for a specific email account. Auto-responders are most commonly used for an "Out of Office" style message to inform your correspondents that you are not available, without you having to reply manually. You can have more than one auto-responder on one account. You can use plain text or include HTML code in the auto-responder, and choose from a wide variety of character sets.

Email filtering
You can block an email using spam filters. There are many definitions of spam - this one's particularly useful:
Spam is the electronic version of junk mail, and has been around since the internet was created. Email filters are a way of filtering your email to remove unwanted mail based on a variety of criteria. You can block any sort of email, not just mail of a commercial nature. Blocked mail can be deleted automatically or sent to another email address or script. These filters are quite flexible - some examples are provided after the instruction on how to add a spam filter below. All filters are cumulative.

Aliases / Forwarding
Forwards simply allow you automatically to forward email sent to one account on to another account. This is useful when you work at two separate locations, or have gone on holiday. To forward mail from one account to two or more accounts, just add two or more forwards for the account that is being forwarded.

Email domain forwarders
If you have any parked domains in your account, you can specify that any email to a user in one domain will be forwarded to the same user in another domain, e.g. sales@yourdomain.com -> sales@yourdomain.ca.

Email address trace
cPanel enables you to trace the delivery path of an email address, from your server to the destination server.

Mailscanner
MailScanner lets you decide what happens to spam and virus-infected emails sent to your domain. You can turn spam and virus scanning on or off (not recommended!), and spam can be delivered to you, deleted, or forwarded to another email account. Low-scoring spam is tagged as "{Spam?}" and high-scoring spam as "{Spam}", so you can easily set up your own filters in your local email program.

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