A professional email address like you@yourdomain.com builds trust and keeps your business communication tied to your own brand instead of a generic provider. With Hostbox hosting, you can create mailboxes for your domain in just a few minutes.
Create a mailbox
Mailboxes are managed from your Hostbox dashboard.
Sign in to your dashboard and find the email section of your control panel.
Save the mailbox, then send yourself a test message to confirm it works.
Use a long, unique password for each mailbox. Email accounts are a common target, and a weak password puts your whole inbox at risk.
Read your mail in webmail
The quickest way to check a new mailbox is webmail. Open the webmail link from your control panel, log in with the full email address and its password, and you can read and send messages from any browser.
Connect a phone or desktop app
To use the mailbox in an app like Apple Mail, Outlook, or Gmail, add an account using IMAP for incoming mail and SMTP for outgoing mail.
Incoming (IMAP)
Server: mail.yourdomain.com
Port: 993
Security: SSL/TLS
Outgoing (SMTP)
Server: mail.yourdomain.com
Port: 465
Security: SSL/TLS
Username: you@yourdomain.com
Password: your mailbox password
IMAP keeps your mail in sync across every device, so a message you read on your phone also shows as read on your laptop.
Cut down on spam
Avoid posting your address publicly in plain text, never reply to suspicious messages, and mark junk as spam so filtering improves over time. If you need a hand, our team is at /support and more guides live at /knowledgebase.