Having an unlimited hosting account (or any hosting account for that matter) is one thing, but there are a number of things that you can do to make the best of it. The first of these that I would like to address is e-mail accounts.Adding a new e-mail is a very simple process accomplished via your cPanel ‘Email Accounts’ link. My advice with any new domain is to create an initial ‘admin@’ account but there are 2 special email addresses that every account should have … postmaster@1 & abuse@2
These accounts (although not neccessarily used) are expected by a number of processes and when they are not available can actually be detremental. However, having a lot of email accounts can become a nightmare to administer and so there is a better option when setting them up. Instead of creating seperate mailboxes, ‘forward’ these address to your ‘admin@’ account via the cPanel ‘Forwarders’ option. This will send all mail addressed to these emails in to a single mailbox.
Forwarding can also be used on an overall domain basis and is most commonly used when you secure multiple domain names such as youdomain.com, .net, and .biz. Through the cPanel ‘Forwarders’ option you can redirect all your .net and .biz emails to the appropriate .com mailbox in just the same way as you can redirect .net and .biz traffic to your .com site.
1. Postmaster@ is required by RFC 2821 as a required address for each domain’s SMTP host accepting mail.
2. Abuse@ is “required” by RFC 2142 as a defacto standard (ie, everyone else is doing it and so should you).
