Direct Admin End User Series (26)

How to use WebMail in Direct Admin

Click the Webmail icon here

This demo assumes you’ve already logged in to Direct Admin

Now let’s learn how to use WebMail for accessing email from within Direct Admin

Login to Webmail using your complete POP email address, and it’s password

This is the main screen of SquirrelMail, and it shows the contents of the main inbox

Click the Options link

Click the Folders link

On this page there are several options for configuring the way your webmail displays for you

Although we won’t do it now, feel free to alter any of these options:

Personal Information

Display Preferences

Message Highlighting

Folder Preferences

Index Order

Let’s create a new folder…. enter the new folder name here

Then click Create

From this page you can create or delete folders and sub-folders, which is a convenient way to help organize your email messages

To see our new folder in the folder’s list, click refresh folder list

Click the Addresses link

There’s the new folder we just created!

You can create as many folders and sub-folders as you like….. whatever makes it easier for you to organize all your emails

Scroll down…

SquirrelMail comes with a Personal Address Book which you can use to store commonly used email addresses

Let’s go ahead and add an email address to the address book

When finished, click the Add address button

Let’s delete an address from the address book…..

The new address has been added to the address book, and can be seen here

Now let’s send an email… click Compose

To choose an address from our address book, click the Addresses button here

Let’s select this address to send a message To

Now fill in the rest of the details

The email address is automatically inserted into the To field

Scroll down…

Click the Send button

Click the INBOX.Sent link to see the message we just sent

The message has been sent!

Now go back to the INBOX

There it is!

Let’s delete this message

Now let’s move this message to the Temp Folder we created earlier

Click Move

Let’s go see if it’s there…. click Temp Folder

The message has been moved to the Temp Folder

When finished with webmail, you should always click the Sign Out link

There it is!

This is the end of the tutorial. You should now have an understanding of how to use Webmail from within Direct Admin

Hosting additional domains in Direct Admin

This demo assumes you’ve already logged in to Direct Admin

Now let’s learn how to host additional domains in our hosting account

Click the Domain Setup link

Then click Add Another Domain

Enter the additional domain name you want hosted here

This is where you add new domain names to be hosted within your main hosting account

Set the bandwidth and disk space allowances for this new domain

When finished, click Create

You can also decide if you want this new domain to have SSL, CGI or PHP privileges

Click the Home icon here

That’s it! The new domain has been setup

Click anothersite.com

Now whenever you click Home, or login to Direct Admin, you’ll have to choose which domain you want to manage

Scroll down…

Click the Home icon

You can always tell which domain you’re managing by looking here

Now click demo1234.com

This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to setup and host additional domains in your hosting account

How to create an autoresponder in Direct Admin

This demo assumes you’ve already logged in to Direct Admin

Now let’s learn how to create an autoresponder

Scroll down…

Click the Autoresponders link

Click the Create New Autoresponder link

This is the screen where you can create autoresponders for your hosting account

When an email is sent to an autoresponder email address, an automatic message is sent back to the sender of the email. Let’s create an autoresponder message

Enter a new email address for the new autoresponder, keeping in mind that the address you enter cannot already exist as a POP email account, forwarder or mailing list

Then enter your autoresponder message here

Scroll down…

If you want to be notified whenever an autoresponse is sent, click here and enter your email address

When finished, click the Create button

That’s it! The new autoresponder has been created, and is listed here

From this same screen, you can also modify existing autoresponders, or delete them entirely

Let’s go ahead and delete the autoresponder we just created

Click the Delete Selected button

The autoresponder has been deleted

Click the Home icon here

This is the end of the tutorial. You can return to the autoresponder page at any time, to add, modify, or delete autoresponders for your hosting account