I don't know how to do it, nor will I probably know any of the instructions you give, so if you could really make them easy for me, I'd greatly appreciate it.

1) Click the domain name were you want to setup the email.
2) Click mail.
3) Were it says "Create new mail name" enter the name you want to be called like john etc and press add.
4) You can tell it to redirect the mail to another address from here and a few other things.
5) Now set it up in your email program (Outlook Express etc)

There ya go, easy!

Regards,

Brian

Good deal. I got that set up perfectly. Another question. I tried testing it, but if I reply back, with the account I set it up for (a Yahoo account), it displays "From: XXXXX@yahoo.com," not "XXXXX@mydomain.net." How do I fix that? Or if I check mailbox instead of redirect in Plesk, and input a password, where do I go to check the mail then?

drumsy,

It shows your yahoo address because you setup a forwarding account rather than an actual mailbox. Here's the difference:

Forwarding -
Mail sent to you@domain.com -> forwarded to -> you@yahoo.com

Mailbox -
Mail sent to you@domain.com -> saved on your server till your email client retrieves it

I don't use yahoo, but if they allow you to check/send email through a client such as Outlook, you can change the options for that account to display a different Reply To: name, otherwise your better off setting up a Mailbox account.

To check your mail from a Mailbox, you need to setup an email client (outlook, eudora, ect..) or check it from WebMail at:

webmail.yourdomain.com

- Matt

I get a "Page cannot be displayed" when I input that address. http://webmail.honda-acura.net

Did you enable Webmail in Plesk? (I think it's under Permissions or Preferences in the domain screen-I've never used it, but there's a checkbox to enable webmail somewhere in there.)

Domain > Preferences > All mailbox items are set to unlimited. Last three questions:

WWW prefix: checked
Allow scripting for web users: unchecked
WebMail: checked

WebMail was already checked, but it still won't come up. http://webmail.honda-acura.net

Under Mail, I have specified my email address to go to Mailbox, and I put in a password and confirmed it. If I come back to that screen though, it doesn't show the old password though.

Anyone?

If you are using Rackshack's DNS, make sure you create an A record to point for that webmail subdomain.

Open a Trouble Ticket and ask for an A record to be made for http://webmail.honda-acura.net pointing to the IP XX.XX.XX.XX (your IP).

That will do it.

I followed your advise, and as you can see, http://webmail.honda-acura.net does come up, but it goes directly to my forums (prompting for login) and not to the mail. What do I have to do now? Webmail is still checked in Plesk CP.

Do you have IP-based hosting for your site?

"A" record for webmail.honda-accura.net should point to the main IP of the server, not neccessarily the same IP as your site...

Did it, still doesn't work!

did you point the webmail A record to the name-based hosting ip# for your server...as defined when you ran the plesk reconfigurator??

And you do have the webmail box checked in the plesk cp for that site?


If the above 2 are true..then it should be working...

if not..please provide what version of plesk you are using...and I will try to help a little more.

Unfortunately my experience with Plesk is little to none. I do know Webmail is checked under Preferences, and that the A record for webmail.honda-acura.net is pointing to the actual IP of my dedicated server as defined under the Servers heading in Member Links, which is 64.246.46.54. Beyond that, you'll need to walk me through. I appreciate your efforts!

3 questions:
1) did you run the plesk reconfigurator

2) is 64.246.46.54 the only ip# on your box?

3) what version of plesk are you running?