Objective
This document explains how to add a new mailbox to your account.
The objective here is to create a new mailbox for address@example.com
For the sake of this article, we will assume your cornerhost username is user.
Create the Mailbox
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Log into the control panel
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click edit mailboxes
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fill in the box name and click add box
The mailboxes have a naming convention, in that they must start with "pop_"
So, for this example, you might name the mailbox pop_user_address
When you click "add box", the control panel creates the mailbox and generates a password, which you can then change if you want.
The relationship between mailboxes and accounts
When your account was created, a default mailbox was also created automatically (named "user" in this example). If you want to set up procmail, SpamAssassin, etc. for this mailbox, you must FTP to the main account (user). On the other hand, when you create a new mailbox (named "pop_user_address" in this example), you are also creating a limited user account with the same name. If you want to set up procmail, SpamAssassin, etc. for this mailbox, you must FTP to the associated account (pop_user_address), not to the main account (user).Verify domain name mail processing
Make sure that for the domain name you want to add the address to mail processing is enabled. You can verify this going to the edit dns records option, selecting the domain name and making sure the option Process mail for this domain under mail settings is checked.
If you don't check this, the domain won't appear in the email rules list and you won't be able to complete the following step.
Bind an address to the Mailbox with a Rule
Now you need to create a rule for the mailbox.
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Click edit rules
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Click add rule next to the domain.
Since we are adding a rule for address@example.com, we'd click the [add rule] link that's next to example.com.
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Now complete the sentence: Mail for address@example.com should ... go into mailbox: pop_user_address
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click save rule
You should now see the a line that says address -> pop_user_address on your rules list.
Configure your mail client
Now you need to configure your mail client.
To check it, create a new pop3 or IMAP account in your mail software, using the following information:
| email address | address@example.com |
| username | pop_user_address |
| password | (the mailbox password) |
| POP3/IMAP server | your server. for example: mercury.sabren.com |
| SMTP server | provided by your isp |
Some ISPs won't let you use their SMTP server to send mail for your domain. Others won't let you connect to outside SMTP servers. If you can't send mail using their server, use XXX.sabren.com instead. (Where XXX is mercury, scandium, etc - whatever server you log into for ftp)
However, if you use XXX.sabren.com as your SMTP server, you must turn on SMTP authentication. This is sometimes called "my outgoing mail server requires authentication".
