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Published on: 02/09/2023 | Updated on: 02/20/2023 | Reading Time: 2 minutes

DirectAdmin Email Accounts

Create an Email Account

Creating email accounts using your DirectAdmin control panel is quick and easy to do.

To create an email account, login to your DirectAdmin control panel

Scroll down until you find the E-mail Manager section and click E-mail Accounts (shown in the image below)

DirectAdmin E-Mail Manager Screen
DirectAdmin E-Mail Manager Screen

Click on Create Account (shown on image below)

DirectAdmin List of Email Accounts Screen
DirectAdmin List of Email Accounts Screen

Create your new email account

Enter the following:

  1. A username

  2. A password (there is a password generator to the left of the field - click the icon)

  3. Modify email quota (if desired)

  4. Send Limit - 200 is typically a good number to leave this set at

  5. Click Create Account

That’s it! You’ve now created a new email account using DirectAdmin

DirectAdmin Create Email Account Screen
DirectAdmin Create Email Account Screen

If you need any assistance, please submit a ticket for Technical Support


Access Roundcube Webmail

After you’ve created an email account, you may wish to access your email account in your web browser by using Webmail.

Access webmail in your browser by opening it and typing in yourdomain.com/roundcube/ (replace yourdomain.com with your actual domain name)
Once the webmail page loads, enter your full email address and password to login

Access Webmail through the DirectAdmin control panel

Login to your DirectAdmin control panel

Scroll down until you find the E-mail Manager section and click E-mail Accounts (shown in the image below)

DirectAdmin E-Mail Manager Screen
DirectAdmin E-Mail Manager Screen

Here you will see a list of all of your email accounts. Click the blue icon to the right of the email account you want to access and it will automatically log you in to that account.

DirectAdmin E-Mail Account List
DirectAdmin E-Mail Account List

If you need any assistance, please submit a ticket for Technical Support


DirectAdmin Email Official Documentation