How to access webmail through cPanel

This article describes how to access a webmail application from within cPanel.

What are webmail applications?

Webmail applications enable you to check your e-mail accounts by using your web browser. You can compose and read e-mail messages, maintain an address book, and perform other common tasks. Offline e-mail client applications, such as Thunderbird and Microsoft Outlook, generally provide more features than webmail applications but also require more initial configuration.

There are two cPanel webmail applications that you can use:

• Horde
• Roundcube

How to access the cPanel webmail login

To access an e-mail account using webmail from within cPanel, follow these steps:

1. Log in to cPanel.
   If you do not know how to log in to your cPanel account, please see this article.
2. In the EMAIL section of the cPanel home screen, click Email Accounts.
3. Under Email Accounts, locate the e-mail account that you want to access, and then click Check Email.
   Alternatively, you can use the URL http://www.example.com:2096, where example.com is your domain name, to access webmail. Then you do not have to log in to cPanel first, but can instead go straight to the webmail login page.
4. If this is the first time you are accessing webmail for the account, select the webmail application that you want to use.
5. The webmail interface appears.
   For information about how to configure the e-mail account using webmail, please see this article.

More Information

• For more information about Horde, please visit http://www.horde.org/apps/webmail.
• For more information about Roundcube, please visit http://roundcube.net.