Creating an extra email account on your Dreamhost account.
Friends and Regular readers will already be aware that my friends outside Los Angeles, Dreamhost, provide the very best Web Hosting in terms of reliability, security, customer service and value.
After my clients sign up with Dreamhost, they get a lot of features, PHP, MySQL on the backend, lots of one click installs for great Web applications like Wordpress, Mambo, WebGallery and lots more, but, they also get 5000 email address spaces to give to friends, family and employees, volunteers or even specific causes, e.g. comments@yourdomain.com, stories@yourdomain.com.
Dreamhost mail supports industry standard mail functionality including Webmail (Squirrel Mail), Spam Filtering (Spam Assassin) and Mail Forwarding.
To set up an extra email account under your Dreamhost account, follow these steps, this email tutorial guide is brought to you by San Francisco’s Favorite Mac Repair, Service and Consultants, AuburnCom, if you’d like to see tutorial’s for other issues write to brendan@auburncom.com
First, point your browser to Dreamhost, then enter your information like the image below shows.
Secondly, click “Mail” in the navigation bar to the left of the Dreamhost Panel as shown below:
Next click on “Manage email”
You’re almost there! You’ll now be seeing something similar to the picture below,
click on “create new email address”
From here on, it’s quite straightforward to setup the email account, default options will be fine for most users, any email address you creat can be removed, modified or enhanced at any time in the future, so there’s no need to fret over whether to allocate 200mb for space or 2000mb for space.
You will however want to decide whether to use that powerful “Forward Only Email Address” or a standard email address, the forward only email address can work great for friends who need to be contactable through the offical company or organization’s web address but would rather have their email centralized.
We provide lots of Web Strategy advice for individuals and companies in the Bay Area and would be happy to meet with you or give a support call to you if you’d like some further help with this, call 415-871-9683 and speak to Brendan to learn more about how we can help you.