One great feature of shared hosting is the ability to create custom email addresses using your domain (e.g., [email protected]). Offshore-Servers shared hosting with cPanel makes this easy. Follow these steps to create email accounts:

1. Log into cPanel for your account (as described above).
2. Find “Email Accounts”: On the cPanel home, scroll to the Email section and click on Email Accounts. This is the interface to manage mail addresses for all your domains on the account.
3. Add Email Account: Click the “Create” button. cPanel will prompt you to choose the domain (if you have multiple domains on the account, select the correct one from the dropdown). Then enter the prefix/username for the email. For example, to create [email protected], type “info” in the name field and select yourdomain.com as the domain.
4. Set a Password: You can either set a password for the email account or use the generator. Make sure it’s a strong password (cPanel will indicate password strength). Alternatively, cPanel might allow you to send a setup link to an alternate email to let the user set their own password (useful if you’re making an account for someone else).
5. Storage Space (Quota): Set a mailbox quota or choose “Unlimited” if you prefer (within your account’s disk space limits). If this is an important email, you might keep it unlimited or high; for minor accounts you can restrict to prevent one mailbox from consuming all space.
6. Create Account: Click “Create” to finish. cPanel will set up the mailbox. You should see it listed under Email Accounts now.
7. Accessing the Email: Now that the account is made, you can use Webmail or an email client to send/receive mail. For webmail, cPanel provides clients like Roundcube or Horde. You can access webmail by going to yourdomain.com/webmail or via the Email Accounts list (there’s a “Check Email” or webmail option next to the account). Enter the full email address and password to log into webmail. From there you can send emails or read any incoming ones.
8. Configure Email Client (Optional): If you want to use an email application like Outlook, Thunderbird, or phone’s mail app, you’ll need the mail server settings. In cPanel’s Email Accounts interface, there’s usually a “Connect Devices” or “Set Up Mail Client” option for each account. Click that and cPanel will show you the IMAP/POP3 and SMTP server settings. Typically, it will be something like:
   • Incoming (IMAP/POP3) server: mail.yourdomain.com (or the server’s hostname)
   • Outgoing (SMTP) server: mail.yourdomain.com
   • Username: the full email address
   • Password: the one you set
   • Ports: IMAP (143 or secure 993), POP3 (110 or secure 995), SMTP (587 or secure 465), depending on SSL usage. Use these details in your email client to add the account, and you should be able to send/receive through that program.

Managing Email Accounts: In the Email Accounts section, you can reset passwords for email accounts, adjust quotas, or remove accounts. You also have other email-related features in cPanel such as Forwarders (to forward one address to another), Autoresponders (out-of-office replies), and Email Filters to manage spam.

Offshore-Servers’ shared hosting comes with standard spam filtering (SpamAssassin) and you can enable it in cPanel if not already on. Make sure to keep an eye on mailbox storage and clean up or archive emails if nearing quota.

Now you have professional email addresses tied to your offshore domain, all manageable through cPanel – no need for external email services unless you prefer them.