HostGator Email - Getting Started
Once your website is live, integrate your domain with HostGator's reliable email hosting solutions. Create professional email addresses that reflect your brand, ensure dependable delivery, and take advantage of advanced features like spam filtering and calendar integration.
- Host your Email with Professional Email ⤵
- Host your Emails with Google Workspace ⤵
- Host your Emails on your Server ⤵
Host your Emails with Professional Email
HostGator offers Professional Email, a platform designed to meet the needs of professionals and businesses of all sizes. Professional Email empowers you to streamline your communication, enhance productivity, and strengthen your professional image.
For more information, you can visit the following article.
Host your Emails with Google Workspace
Please visit the following article for more information.
Host your Emails on your Server
If you do not use Professional Email or Google Workspace, your HostGator hosting server will allow you to host your email. The process is straightforward, and if you are using our name servers, your mail will automatically be routed to your server.
All you need to do is create the email, and then you can either access it with either Webmail or set up your phone or an email client to check your mail directly:
- Create and Manage New Email Accounts ⤵
- Go to your Email via Webmail ⤵
- Configure your Email Clients ⤵
Create and manage new email accounts
The first thing you will need to do is create an email account. You can do this directly inside your cPanel account by clicking the Email Accounts icon.
For more information and for a full video walkthrough of how to create new email accounts, you can refer to this specialized article:
If you decide to change the name of an email account or if you do not need an old email address, you can delete the account following the directions in the following article:
Go to your Email via Webmail
Once you have an email account created in cPanel, the fastest and easiest way to access it and begin sending and receiving emails is through Webmail. The following article will show you all the methods for accessing Webmail:
Anytime you log into an email address, you will use the full email address as the username and the password specific to that email address as the password.
Please continue to the next section if you wish to access your email directly from your phone or personal computer applications.
Configure your Email Clients
You may access an email account on your server directly through your phone or computer's email application. The following articles will help you access the email accounts you have created on your phone.
There are also various applications for accessing your email from your personal computer, for example, Thunderbird, a free client available for all operating systems. The following article includes information on how to download Thunderbird.
Suppose you already have a preferred email client, and you need the settings to access it using your current email application. In that case, the article below will provide settings for specific applications other than Thunderbird:
Need help with email troubleshooting? If you experience difficulty with setting up your email, the following articles may assist with quickly resolving the issue:
Are you planning to host your emails elsewhere with the domain you registered with HostGator? You can definitely do that! You only need to change your MX records and point them to your email host. For instructions on how to do so, please check out the following article.