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Not Receiving Emails? How to Fix Incoming Mail

When mail sent to your domain does not arrive, the message has either reached the server and been put somewhere you are not looking, or it never reached the ser...

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Troubleshooting Email Not Sending

When email will not send, the error message and one quick test usually tell you where the problem is: your mail app, your network, your account, or the receivin...

Advanced10 min635Updated 2 days ago

What to Do If Your Email Is Blacklisted

If your emails bounce with words like "blacklisted", "blocklisted", "listed on DNSBL" or "blocked by Spamhaus", the IP address or domain your mail comes from is...

Intermediate5 min567Updated 2 days ago

How to Configure Spam Filters

To configure spam filters on Domain India hosting, you mostly tune what is already running: SpamAssassin checks every incoming message on our cPanel and DirectA...

Intermediate6 min360Updated 1 weeks ago

Creating Email Aliases and Catch-All Addresses

An email alias gives you a second address, such as [email protected], that delivers into a mailbox you already have. A catch-all (called the default address ...

Intermediate11 min771Updated 3 days ago

Understanding SPF, DKIM, and DMARC Records

SPF, DKIM and DMARC are three DNS records that prove your email really comes from your domain. Together they stop others sending mail in your name and help your...

Intermediate6 min459Updated 2 days ago

Setting Up MX Records for Email

MX records tell the rest of the internet which server accepts email for your domain. If they are missing or point to the wrong place, messages to you bounce or ...

Advanced10 min787Updated 2 days ago

How to Set Up Email Signature in Webmail

A good email signature tells people who you are and how to reach you, without making every message heavier. On Domain India cPanel and DirectAdmin hosting, webm...

Intermediate8 min784Updated 1 weeks ago

Roundcube Webmail Features Guide

Roundcube is the webmail you use with the email included in Domain India cPanel and DirectAdmin hosting. It runs in any browser and covers everything day-to-day...

Intermediate9 min1,035Updated 2 days ago

Incoming/Outgoing Mail Server Settings

To add the email included with your Domain India hosting to Outlook, Thunderbird, Apple Mail or your phone, you need the incoming server, the outgoing server, a...

Intermediate8 min623Updated 2 days ago

How to Configure Email in Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft Outlook can send and receive the email included with your Domain India hosting plan, as long as the server name, ports, encryption, username and outgo...

Intermediate9 min571Updated 2 days ago

How to Manage Spam Filters

Spam filtering is already switched on for the email that comes with Domain India cPanel and DirectAdmin hosting, so managing it mostly means tuning it: how stri...

Intermediate5 min699Updated 1 weeks ago

How to Set Up Email on Windows Mail App

If you're looking for how to add your Domain India email to the Windows Mail app, the first thing to know is that the app is gone. Microsoft retired Mail and Ca...

Intermediate5 min367Updated 1 weeks ago

How to Set Up Email Forwarding

Email forwarding passes every message that arrives at one address on to another, such as [email protected] to your own inbox or a colleague's. On Domain India...

Intermediate6 min355Updated 3 days ago

How to Access Webmail (Roundcube)

Roundcube is the webmail application on Domain India cPanel and DirectAdmin hosting. It lets you read and send the email on your hosting plan from any web brows...

Advanced5 min1,019Updated Today

IMAP vs POP3: Which to Choose

When you add your email to Outlook, Thunderbird, Apple Mail or a phone, the app asks you to choose IMAP or POP3. The choice decides where your mail lives: on th...

Intermediate9 min443Updated 1 weeks ago

How to Configure Email on Android

You can read and send the email included with your Domain India hosting on any Android phone, in the Gmail app, Samsung Email or Outlook. Each app needs the sam...

Advanced8 min401Updated 2 days ago

How to Configure Email on iPhone/iPad

The Mail app on your iPhone or iPad can send and receive the email included with your Domain India hosting plan. It needs five things right: the server name, th...

Intermediate9 min490Updated 2 days ago

How to Configure Email in Thunderbird

Mozilla Thunderbird is a free email program for Windows, macOS and Linux, and it works well with the email included in your Domain India hosting plan. Setup tak...

Intermediate8 min600Updated 2 days ago

Email Hosting vs Free Email (Gmail/Yahoo)

Free email from Gmail or Yahoo costs nothing and works well for personal use. For a business, an address at your own domain, such as [email protected], look...

Intermediate9 min436Updated 2 days ago

How to Create Your First Email Account

Your first email address at your own domain, such as [email protected], takes about a minute to create. If you have a Domain India cPanel, DirectAdmin or Web...

Intermediate6 min459Updated 1 weeks ago

Email Hosting Plans Overview

An email address at your own domain, such as [email protected], tells customers they are dealing with a real business. Domain India offers it in two ways: m...

Intermediate8 min495Updated 2 days ago

Email Mailing Lists

An email mailing list lets you reach a group through one address: write to [email protected] and everyone on the list gets a copy. On Domain India hosting the...

Intermediate9 min243Updated 2 days ago

Setting Up Email Autoresponders

An autoresponder sends an automatic reply to everyone who emails one of your addresses: useful when you are on leave, to confirm that an enquiry arrived, or to ...

Intermediate6 min299Updated 2 days ago

Setting Up Google Workspace Email

You can use Google Workspace for the email on a domain registered with Domain India while your website stays on your hosting. Setting it up is a DNS job: verify...

Intermediate5 min470Updated 2 days ago

Email Authentication — SPF, DKIM, DMARC

SPF, DKIM and DMARC are three DNS records that prove email from your domain really comes from you. Without them, Gmail, Outlook and Yahoo are more likely to sen...

Intermediate6 min392Updated 1 weeks ago

Improving Email Deliverability

Email deliverability means your messages reach the inbox, not just leave your server. When genuine mail from your domain lands in spam, the cause is usually mis...

Intermediate5 min288Updated 2 days ago

Setting Up Email Accounts

Setting up an email account at your own domain takes about a minute in your hosting control panel: create the address, set a password and a quota, then read the...

Intermediate5 min327Updated 2 days ago

Managing Email Accounts

Your Domain India hosting plan includes email accounts at your own domain, such as [email protected]. You create and manage them in your control panel: passwor...

Intermediate5 min315Updated Yesterday

Stop Email Spoofing: Shared Hosting and Your Own cPanel Server

Email spoofing is when someone sends mail with a forged From address, so it looks as if it came from your domain. On a shared mail server it damages the server'...

Advanced8 min2,650Updated Yesterday

How to Identify Outbound Spam on a cPanel Shared Hosting Server

If spam is leaving a cPanel hosting account, it is almost always coming from one of three places: a mailbox whose password was stolen, a website form that bots ...

Advanced9 min1,216Updated 1 weeks ago

Email Flood Defense: Real-World Guide to Discovery, Containment & Prevention

An email flood is what happens when one stolen mailbox password or one abused contact form starts pushing thousands of spam messages through a mail server in a ...

Advanced9 min1,115Updated 2 days ago

Fixing Google Greylisting: Stop Email Delays and Restore IP Reputation

When Gmail stops trusting a sending server, mail to Gmail addresses doesn't bounce straight away. It is delayed, retried and sometimes dropped days later. Peopl...

Intermediate9 min1,968Updated 2 days ago

Analyzing Outbound Email by Domain Using Exim Logs with a Look-Back Window

When a server suddenly sends far more email than usual, the first question is who is sending it. Exim's main log records every message that arrives for delivery...

Advanced6 min1,348Updated 2 days ago

Understanding Server IP Reputation and Real-Time Blackhole Lists (RBLs)

Every mail server that receives your message asks two questions before it looks at the content: how trustworthy is the IP address this came from, and is that IP...

Advanced8 min1,250Updated 2 days ago

Why You May Not Be Able to Send Email Using Your Domain Email ID (e.g., [email protected])

When mail from an address such as [email protected] bounces, lands in spam or never arrives, the cause is almost always one of five things: the mail app's out...

Intermediate6 min1,131Updated 2 days ago

How to Use App Passwords and OAuth 2.0 in Google Workspace: A Complete Setup Guide

Google Workspace no longer accepts a plain username and password from mail apps. If Outlook, Thunderbird, a phone or a scanner keeps asking for your password or...

Intermediate10 min22,756Updated 1 weeks ago

Google Workspace Email Settings: Ports, Servers, SSL & Client Configuration Guide

If your domain's email runs on Google Workspace, your mail app needs Google's server names, ports and sign-in method. This guide lists Google's current settings...

Intermediate10 min7,808Updated 2 days ago

How to Set Up BIMI and VMC to Show Your Logo in Gmail

BIMI (Brand Indicators for Message Identification) lets your logo appear next to your emails in supporting inboxes. It works only on top of strong email authent...

Advanced10 min2,358Updated Today

Diagnosing Email Delivery Failures: A Case Study & Additional Insights

Sometimes an email simply does not arrive. There is no instant bounce, just a delay warning a day later or a failure notice after several days. This case study ...

Advanced9 min1,922Updated 2 days ago

Debugging SMTP Connection Issues on a cPanel Server with CSF Firewall Enabled

Your application tries to send email through an outside SMTP server, such as Microsoft 365 or Gmail, and fails with Connection timed out (110). The message is t...

Advanced7 min1,397Updated 2 days ago

Email Security Best Practices: Defending Against Modern Email-Based Attacks

Email is still the easiest way into a business. A convincing message can steal a password, redirect a payment or plant malware, and a stolen mailbox can then be...

Intermediate10 min2,310Updated 2 days ago

Exim Mail Server Guide for Your Own Server or VPS

Exim is the mail transfer agent (MTA) that accepts, routes and delivers email on most cPanel and DirectAdmin servers, and on many Debian-based systems. This han...

Advanced9 min2,155Updated Today

Fixing Exim 421 Error: Causes and Solutions

An SMTP "421" reply means "service not available, try again later". It is a temporary refusal: the mail is not lost, and a correctly configured server keeps it ...

Advanced9 min2,555Updated 2 days ago

Fastest Way to Completely Clear the Mail Queue in cPanel (Exim)

When a compromised mailbox or a hacked script floods a server with spam, the Exim mail queue can grow to tens of thousands of messages, slowing all mail and get...

Advanced8 min2,842Updated 2 days ago

Custom Exim ACL: The Ultimate Comprehensive Guide for Mastering

Exim access control lists (ACLs) decide, at each stage of an SMTP conversation, whether your mail server accepts, rejects or delays a message. This guide explai...

Advanced8 min5,477Updated 1 weeks ago

Enforcing Inbound DMARC Checks on cPanel & Strengthening Email Security

Publishing a strict DMARC record protects your domain at Gmail, Outlook and other providers that enforce it. It does not, by itself, stop a forged message "from...

Advanced9 min2,117Updated 2 days ago

How to Read Mail Logs: Exim, Postfix and Dovecot

Mail logs record every connection, login, delivery and rejection on a mail server. Reading them is the fastest way to answer "did this email arrive?", "why was ...

Advanced5 min5,357Updated Today

Google Workspace Email Configuration: Complete Guide

Google Workspace can host the email for a domain you registered with Domain India, while your website stays on your hosting. Making it work is a DNS job: you pr...

Intermediate10 min4,242Updated 2 days ago

Understanding Email Blacklist Management: A Complete Guide

An email blacklist (also called a blocklist) is a list of IP addresses or domains that have been seen sending spam. When a receiving mail server finds your serv...

Advanced10 min1,837Updated 2 days ago

Troubleshooting SMTP Relay Issues in VPS Hosting: A Comprehensive Guide

When a mail server on your own VPS refuses to send, the error almost always says which of four things is wrong: the client is not allowed to relay, authenticati...

Advanced9 min2,447Updated 1 weeks ago

Understanding DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail) and How to Implement It

DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail) puts a digital signature on every email your domain sends. Receiving servers such as Gmail and Outlook check that signature ag...

Advanced10 min2,052Updated 1 weeks ago

Email Security for Your Domain: SPF, DKIM, DMARC and More

Email security for a domain rests on a handful of DNS standards. Three of them, SPF, DKIM and DMARC, stop other people sending mail in your name and help your g...

Advanced6 min2,014Updated Today

Understanding SPF (Sender Policy Framework) and How to Implement It

SPF (Sender Policy Framework) is a DNS record that lists which servers may send email for your domain. Receiving mail servers check it to spot forged mail, and ...

Intermediate10 min2,245Updated 1 weeks ago

Understanding DMARC and How to Implement It in Popular Hosting Control Panels

DMARC is a TXT record that tells receiving mail servers what to do with a message that claims to be from your domain but fails SPF and DKIM, and where to send y...

Intermediate7 min1,980Updated 2 days ago

Managing Exim Mail Queue: Comprehensive Guide

Exim is the mail server on most cPanel and DirectAdmin servers. When it can't deliver a message straight away, it keeps it in a queue and retries. This guide is...

Advanced8 min2,553Updated 2 days ago

Understanding and Utilizing Mail Logs in Your Linux Server

Mail logs tell you whether an email arrived, where it went and why it failed. On a Linux server running Exim, the quickest way to answer those questions is grep...

Advanced4 min3,743Updated 2 days ago

Navigating the Email Landscape: Understanding Spam, Bulk Mail, and Opt-In Practices

Email is still one of the cheapest ways for a business to reach customers, but the line between a useful newsletter and spam is consent. Get consent right and y...

Intermediate9 min1,498Updated 2 days ago

How to Disconnect Third-Party Email and Switch Back to cPanel Email Service with Web Hosting

If your domain's email runs on Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Zoho Mail or another provider and you want it back on the mailboxes included with your Domain In...

Intermediate8 min1,658Updated 1 weeks ago

The Definitive Guide to Advanced Mail Server Management: Expert Techniques and Best Practices

Once your own mail server is sending and receiving, the real work begins: choosing and tuning the mail transfer agent, making Dovecot fast, filtering mail on th...

Advanced9 min2,554Updated Today

Guiding Through Email Client Settings with DirectAdmin: Your Comprehensive Guide

If your email is on a Domain India DirectAdmin hosting plan, every mail app uses the same few settings: mail.yourdomain.com as the server, IMAP on port 993 and ...

Intermediate6 min3,527Updated 2 days ago

Email Account Hacked or Sending Spam? How to Find and Fix It

If you have received an abuse complaint, your outgoing mail has been blocked, or your inbox is suddenly full of bounce messages, something may be sending spam f...

Intermediate10 min2,318Updated 2 days ago

Enhancing Email Security with Easy Spam Fighter and Rspamd in DirectAdmin

DirectAdmin can filter spam in two layers: Easy Spam Fighter, which checks each message while it is being delivered, and a content filter, either SpamAssassin o...

Intermediate8 min2,866Updated 2 days ago

Enhancing Email Security with Exim Configuration Manager

On a cPanel & WHM server, most of the spam that reaches your users can be stopped before it is ever accepted, with a handful of settings in WHM's Exim Configura...

Intermediate9 min2,605Updated 1 weeks ago

Troubleshooting Website-Webmail Access Issues

When your website or webmail will not open from one computer or office but works elsewhere, the problem is usually on the network path between you and the serve...

Advanced8 min2,705Updated 5 days ago

Split Delivery in Email

Split delivery lets one domain keep some mailboxes on one email system and the rest on another: for example, the sales team on Google Workspace and everyone els...

Intermediate8 min3,494Updated Today

Setting up DMARC

DMARC is a short DNS record that tells mail providers such as Gmail and Outlook what to do with a message that claims to come from your domain but fails the SPF...

Intermediate11 min2,993Updated 2 days ago

Configuring Third-Party Email Servers with DNS

You can keep your domain and website with Domain India and have your email handled by another provider, such as Google Workspace, Microsoft 365 or Zoho Mail. Ma...

Intermediate9 min3,291Updated 2 days ago

Guide to Troubleshooting Email Problems for DomainIndia.com Reseller Hosting

When a client of your reseller business says "my email is not working", you are their first line of support: Domain India looks after the server, and you look a...

Advanced7 min2,440Updated 2 days ago

Email Server Details, Port Numbers, and SSL Settings for Popular Email Clients

To set up the email included with your Domain India hosting in any mail app, you need one server name, the right port for each job, and the encryption that goes...

Intermediate6 min5,973Updated 1 weeks ago

Troubleshooting and Additional Resources for Popular Email Clients

When Outlook, Thunderbird or Apple Mail stops working with your hosting mailbox, the cause is usually one of three things: a setting that doesn't match, a passw...

Intermediate6 min3,293Updated 1 weeks ago

How to check and manage DKIM in DirectAdmin

DKIM adds a digital signature to every email your domain sends, so receiving servers such as Gmail and Outlook can check that the message really came from you a...

Intermediate9 min3,990Updated 2 days ago

How to test email deliverability for your own website

"Deliverability" means your mail reaching the recipient's inbox, not just leaving your server. Mail can be sent successfully and still land in spam, or be silen...

Intermediate9 min2,422Updated 2 days ago

Troubleshooting Incoming Email Issues in cPanel/Webmail

If mail sent to your domain isn't reaching your inbox, first open webmail. If the message is there, your mail app is the problem; if it isn't, the cause is the ...

Advanced6 min4,858Updated 1 weeks ago

Can't Send Email? Fix Outgoing Mail in cPanel and Webmail

When your email will not send, the quickest way to find the cause is to test in webmail first. If a message sends from webmail but not from Outlook or your phon...

Intermediate7 min4,993Updated Today

How to suspend outgoing emails for all email accounts.

When one hosting account on a mail server starts sending spam, the fastest way to protect the server's reputation is to stop that account's outgoing mail while ...

Advanced8 min2,706Updated 2 days ago

How to Migrating email accounts and their data from cPanel to DirectAdmin

Moving email from a cPanel account to DirectAdmin hosting has two parts: recreate each mailbox on DirectAdmin, then copy the old messages across over IMAP. Done...

Intermediate7 min4,058Updated 2 days ago

Understanding Email Bouncebacks: Common Error Messages & Solutions

A bounce message (also called a bounceback, NDR or "Mail Delivery Subsystem" email) is the receiving side telling you, in a coded way, why your email was not de...

Intermediate18 min137,928Updated 4 days ago

Emails Suddenly Disappearing

Emails that were in your inbox yesterday and are gone today are almost never lost by the mail server. In nearly every case, something removed or moved them: a m...

Intermediate11 min70,125Updated 4 days ago

How do I change the timestamp on my emails?

Your emails show the wrong time: a message that arrived at 10:00 in the morning says 4:30, or new mail appears below older mail. The email itself is almost neve...

Intermediate10 min100,610Updated 4 days ago

How to create/delete an E-Mail forwarder

An email forwarder sends a copy of every message that arrives at one address on to another address. It is how [email protected] can reach three people, how a...

Intermediate9 min77,628Updated 1 weeks ago

Do you limit the amount of mails I can send per hour

Yes. Every shared hosting account at Domain India has a limit on how much email it can send, because many customers share each mail server and its reputation. E...

Intermediate10 min71,877Updated 2 days ago

Email Client Settings for Popular Email Clients

Any mail app can read and send the email included with your Domain India hosting plan, as long as it has five things right: the server name, the port, the encry...

Intermediate12 min79,452Updated 1 weeks ago

Email Troubleshooting

When email stops working, the fastest fix comes from naming the symptom first: mail will not send, mail does not arrive, a bounce comes back, messages land in s...

Advanced12 min79,459Updated 2 days ago

How do I set up a new mailing list

A mailing list gives a group one shared address: send a message to [email protected] and every member gets a copy, and members can join or leave without you e...

Intermediate11 min79,597Updated 2 days ago

How to Create Email Accounts for Your Domain (cPanel, DirectAdmin, Webuzo and Business Email)

An email address at your own domain, such as [email protected], tells customers they are dealing with a real business, not a free Gmail account. With Domain ...

Intermediate16 min97,233Updated Today

The Spam Assassin SpamBox

SpamAssassin is the spam filter built into the email that comes with Domain India hosting. It reads every incoming message, gives it a spam score, and marks the...

Intermediate9 min74,973Updated 1 weeks ago

I can receive mail, but I cannot send it. what's wrong

When mail arrives but nothing you send goes out, the mailbox itself is almost always fine. Receiving and sending are two separate connections: your mail app dow...

Advanced15 min87,142Updated 2 days ago

How to Log In to Webmail (cPanel, DirectAdmin, Webuzo and Business Email)

Webmail lets you read and send your email from any web browser, with nothing to install. The address you log in at depends on which Domain India email product y...

Advanced11 min98,454Updated Today

Managing Your Email Accounts (Passwords, Quotas, Forwarders and Settings)

An email account at your own domain is three things at once: a mailbox that stores your mail, a password that controls who can use it, and a quota that caps how...

Intermediate15 min87,977Updated 3 days ago

Email Going to Spam — How to Fix

When the emails you send from your domain land in your customers' spam or junk folders, the cause is almost always one of three things: missing or broken authen...

Intermediate9 min529Updated 2 days ago

Setting Up Email in Outlook

To read and send the email included with your Domain India hosting in Microsoft Outlook, add the account as IMAP, use mail.yourdomain.com for both servers, and ...

Intermediate6 min441Updated 1 weeks ago

Setting Up Email on Phone

You can read and send the email included with your Domain India hosting on any iPhone, iPad or Android phone. Use IMAP so your phone, computer and webmail show ...

Intermediate5 min398Updated 1 weeks ago

Managing Email Quotas

An email quota is the most storage one mailbox may use. When a mailbox reaches it, new mail is refused and the sender gets a "mailbox full" bounce, often withou...

Intermediate7 min712Updated 1 weeks ago

Email Not Receiving — Troubleshooting

If email sent to your domain is not arriving, either it reached the server and went somewhere you are not looking, or it never reached the server at all. Webmai...

Intermediate5 min331Updated 2 days ago

Checking Email Storage

Every mailbox on your hosting account has a storage limit, called a quota. When a mailbox reaches it, new mail is refused and the sender gets a "mailbox full" b...

Intermediate8 min906Updated 2 days ago

Email Forwarding Setup

An email forwarder passes every message that arrives at one address on to another address, such as [email protected] to a colleague or an old address to a ne...

Intermediate7 min460Updated 3 days ago

Accessing Webmail

Webmail lets you read and send your email from any browser, with nothing to install. For the email included with a Domain India hosting plan, go to https://your...

Advanced4 min525Updated Today