It is nice to be able to check mail from your home computer, but what happens if you need to check e-mail from some other location? You can use web mail. Web mail clients allow you to do almost everything you can do with your preferred local e-mail client program, but you can access it from nearly any web browser from anywhere on the Internet.

There are several ways to access web mail, just as there are several ways to access cPanel. You have your choice of the following:

• http://domain.com/webmail/

• http://domain.com:2095/

• https://domain.com:2096/ (secure SSL connection)

 

you should enter the full e-mail address ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ) and the e-mail password. You can also use + . % , or : in place of the @ sign if you prefer or if your web browser doesn't like @ signs in usernames.

 

All of these connection methods take you to exactly the same web mail management page:

 

 

 

From the cPanel web mail management screen, you have access to at most three different web
mail clients, Horde, SquirrelMail, or Round Cube.

Horde is good web mail client. It includes a calendar, to do list, and memo area as well as a robust e-mail service. The downside is that it is rather complex and some people don't like the interface. I recommend you try both SquirrelMail and Horde and see which you prefer. You may prefer to set up a subdomain like webmail.domain.com that takes the user directly to your preferred web mail client to log in Click Here to find out more about subdomains.
 
SquirrelMail offers a clean interface with the ability to add lots of plug-ins or change the look of the web mail client through use of themes. Please note that the default installation of SquirrelMail in cPanel doesn't include many plug-ins (like a spelling checker, language translation, spam reporting, HTML mail viewing, and so on) unless your web host has enabled them.

Round Cube has all the functionality you would expect from a modern email client, including MIME support, address book, folder manipulation, message searching and spell checking. Unlike other webmail clients, its user interface is very much native application-like. This means that it has features like drag-and-drop which you are probably used to from applications on your desktop.

 

In addition to allowing you to choose which web mail program you want to use, the cPanel web mail management screen allows you to edit a number of mail options for this e-mail address including: