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How To Deal With “Disk Usage Warning” Emails

28 July 2006

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At some point you will likely receive an email from your web hosting server with the subject “Disk Usage Warning (warn).” The contents of the email will be something along the lines of: The account with the username ‘yoursite’, is running out of disk space. Please remove some files from this account, or ask the [...]

How To Forward Your Email To Another Email Address

27 July 2006

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You can set your emails to be forwarded to another email address. A customer recently asked this question because she just set up her domain and wanted to publish an email address that used her domain name. However, she wanted to read email in her old Yahoo email account (don’t ask me why). Here’s how: [...]

Another Spam Management How-To: Blackhole That Spam

20 July 2006

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I wrote previously about SpamAssassin and turning on a spam box. Say you gets tons of spam and want to just delete it all automatically instead of sending it to a spam box that you never review. It is easy to set up using cPanel’s menu driven command building tool. Here’s how.

Default Email Address For Your Account & Why You Should Check It

13 July 2006

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Many people do not know that you have an email address that is sometimes called “default address” or “main account.” It is a functioning email address and you can use it. The address is of the form your_cPanel_username@yoursite.com. Many times, however, your login is not very user friendly because it can be no more than [...]

See Disk Space Used by Each Email Address

5 July 2006

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A site owner is often surprised by a warning email that disk space used is reaching the maximum size. Email is often to blame. Add up all the email inboxes, spam, deleted mail and sent mail for all your email addresses and your email is likely to take up a surprising amount of disk space. [...]

How to Create a New Email Address

1 July 2006

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Create a new email address using cPanel. When logged into cPanel, click “Mail.” You get a list of links (the page is titled “Mail Manager Main Menu“). You will see a list of your existing email addresses. Click “Manage/Add/Remove Accounts“. At the very bottom, there’s a link “[Add Account].” Note that most hosting companies set [...]

Help Manage Spam By Turning On a “Spam Box”

25 June 2006

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Now that you are running SpamAssassin, there are more steps to take to get ahead of spam. One step is to set up a “spam box.” A spam box is part of your email account. It works much like the spam folders in gmail, Yahoo mail, et al. All email tagged by SpamAssassin is put [...]

Access Email Directly (No Need to Log Into cPanel)

16 June 2006

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You can check your email without logging into cPanel. For example, say your site is mysite.com, you would go to: http://www.mysite.com/webmail/ This takes you to a login screen. Username is your entire email address (for example, me@mysite.com) cPanel provides three web user interfaces to your email: NeoMail, Horde and SquirrelMail. (The links are provided only [...]

Get a Grip on Spam: How to Enable Spam Assassin

14 June 2006

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I use SpamAssassin and highly recommend it for all our accounts. SpamAssassin is a mail filter installed on a server to identify spam. It checks for spam using many pre-set rules that check the header, body, and sender of all email messages sent to your domain mailbox. SpamAssassin generates a score for each email. Score [...]

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How To Deal With “Disk Usage Warning” Emails

How To Forward Your Email To Another Email Address

Another Spam Management How-To: Blackhole That Spam

Default Email Address For Your Account & Why You Should Check It

See Disk Space Used by Each Email Address

How to Create a New Email Address

Help Manage Spam By Turning On a “Spam Box”

Access Email Directly (No Need to Log Into cPanel)

Get a Grip on Spam: How to Enable Spam Assassin

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