Creating and Managing Email Accounts

With any WebMedley package, you have the ability to have email accounts with your domain name.  These emails accounts can be a great supplement to your Website by giving all correspondence to and from the staff of your organization a professional look.  If you already have an email account (like Hotmail, or Yahoo), and you don't want to have to check an entirely new email account, you can use an alias, which will automatically forward all email to another.  So email sent to pastor@church.com will be automatically sent to pastorbob@hotmail.com.  Learn more about aliases here. 

How to create your WebMedley email accounts:

Step 1: Log into your Web-based email system
If your domain name is www.church.com, then mail.church.com is where you would manage your email.  By going to mail.church.com (where "church.com" is your domain name), you can log in with the administrative username and password and add, modify, or delete your email accounts. 

Step 2: Create new Accounts
In the upper right-hand corner of your screen, you will see a pull-down box which will allow you to access the administrative options for your email.  Select "user administration" from the pull down box.  If you do not see this option, you are not logged in as the administrative user.

Step 3: Add an Account
Now its time to add an email account.  Click the  button on the screen.  You will see a screen which will have some text fields to fill in. 

• Username: This is what will go before the"@" in the email address.
• First name
• Last name
• Password
• Confirm Password

None of the other options need to be changed.  Once you've got the fields filled in, click on the  button.  You should get a notification that the account has been created. 

If you would like to be able to check these email accounts in Outlook Express, you'll need to configure Outlook to check them.  Click here to read more on that.