{"id":836,"date":"2025-08-27T12:15:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T12:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/?p=836"},"modified":"2026-10-03T18:49:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T18:49:30","slug":"how-to-create-an-email-account-in-directadmin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/how-to-create-an-email-account-in-directadmin\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Create an Email Account in DirectAdmin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With hosting on your domain you can have addresses such as <code>info@yourdomain.com<\/code>. On Standard hosting you create them in DirectAdmin. It takes about a minute for each mailbox.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Create the mailbox<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Step 1.<\/strong> Log in to your DirectAdmin account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Step 2.<\/strong> Go to <strong>Email Manager<\/strong>, then <strong>Email Accounts<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/email-account-1024x355.jpg\" alt=\"Navigate to Email Manager Email Accounts\" class=\"wp-image-839\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/email-account-1024x355.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/email-account-300x104.jpg 300w, https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/email-account-768x266.jpg 768w, https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/email-account.jpg 1091w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Step 3.<\/strong> Click <strong>Create Account<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"798\" height=\"188\" src=\"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/email2.jpg\" alt=\"From the resulting window, click on Create Account\" class=\"wp-image-841\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/email2.jpg 798w, https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/email2-300x71.jpg 300w, https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/email2-768x181.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 798px) 100vw, 798px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Step 4.<\/strong> Fill in the form:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Username:<\/strong> the part before the @, for example <code>info<\/code>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Password:<\/strong> type a strong password, or let the panel generate one. Save it somewhere safe.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Email quota:<\/strong> how much storage this mailbox may use. You can leave the default.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then click <strong>Create Account<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"734\" height=\"369\" src=\"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/email333.jpg\" alt=\"Then Click Create account\" class=\"wp-image-848\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/email333.jpg 734w, https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/email333-300x151.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 734px) 100vw, 734px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Read and send email<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Open <code>yourdomain.com\/webmail<\/code> in your browser and log in with the full email address and the password you just set. Send a test message to another address and reply to it, to check that the mailbox sends and receives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Next steps<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Add the mailbox to your phone or to Outlook: <a href=\"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/set-up-email-on-phone-or-outlook\/\">How to Set Up Your Email on a Phone or in Outlook<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Turn on DKIM so your messages stay out of spam folders: <a href=\"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/how-to-enable-dkim-in-directadmin\/\">How to Enable DKIM in DirectAdmin<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading yg-related-title\">Related guides<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list yg-related\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/set-up-email-on-phone-or-outlook\/\">How to Set Up Your Email on a Phone or in Outlook<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/email-not-sending-or-arriving\/\">Email Not Sending or Arriving? Here Is What to Check<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/how-to-enable-dkim-in-directadmin\/\">How to Enable DKIM in DirectAdmin<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/how-to-log-in-to-cpanel-or-directadmin-and-reset-its-password\/\">How to Log In to cPanel or DirectAdmin and Reset Its Password<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/ditch-the-gmail-com-how-to-set-up-professional-business-email-in-3-steps\/\">Ditch the @gmail.com: How to Set Up Professional Business Email in 3 Steps<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Create a mailbox on your own domain in DirectAdmin: open Email Manager, click Create Account, choose the username and password, then log in through webmail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":901,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,14,3],"tags":[31,32],"class_list":["post-836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-directadmin","category-email","category-how-to","tag-create-an-email-account","tag-create-an-email-on-directadmin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=836"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1510,"href":"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions\/1510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yegara.com\/en\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}