Email

Manage email accounts, forwarders, email pipes, distribution lists, mailing lists, and mail filters.

Email Accounts

Manage Email Accounts

This feature will help you to manage email accounts from your eenos control panel.

Location :

 Email -> Email Accounts

Email account management provides the following operations

Suspend or Unsuspend Email Account

You can suspend or unsuspend email email accounts.

To Suspend, click the Suspend button from the status column of the respective email account.

To Unsuspend,  click the unsuspend button from the status column of the respective email account.

Change the Password of the Email Account

To change the password of an email account in the eenos control panel, use the password change icon from the tools column of the respective email account.

Change Disk Quota of Email Account

To change the disk quota of the email account on eenos, click the disk quota icon from the tools column of the respective email account and set the quota. You can set up a quota in MB or choose an unlimited email account.

Delete Email Account

To delete an email account on eenos, click the trash icon on the tools column of the respective email account.

Access Webmail

To access webmail on the eenos control panel, click the Go to Webmail Button. This will redirect to the main domain url which contains the webmail application - roundcube. 

For example, for the domain  foo.com, the webmail url is  https://mail.foo.com/

Show Device Configuration

To see your mobile or desktop email client configuration information of your email account, click the button Connect Device

Create Email

Create an Email Account on Eenos

This page will help you to create an email account on your domain. You can choose your domain to create email accounts and set the disk quota of the email accounts.

Location :

Email -> Create Email

How to create an email account?

Fill out the following forms and click the button Add Email.

Email User Name, a name for the email account. This  is the part before the @ symbol

Select Domain, Select a domain name from the drop-down list. This is the part after the @symbol

Password, Generate or enter the password of the email account

Email Quota,  Enter a disk quota limit for the email account in MB or select the  Unlimited option

Now click the button Add Email and it will create the email account for you.

Forwarders

Create & Manage Email Forwarders

You can create and manage email forwarders from the eenos control panel. A forwarder is a virtual email account that will forward emails to another email account.

Location :

 Email -> Forwarders

Add New Forwarder

To create a new email forwarder address, click the button Add New Forwarder, which will redirect to the forwarder add page. From this page, you may fill out the following and add forwarder.

Address, a forwarder email name. It is the part before the @ symbol on an email address

Select a domain, the forwarder email domain name. It is the part after the @ symbol on an email address

Destination, where to send the forwarded emails 

You have four options to set the destination as follows,

  1.  Forward to Email Address -  This will forward the incoming emails to another email address
  2. Discard and Reply -  To discard the email and send a failed reply to the sender
  3. Forward to  your system account - This is the login account of your eenos control panel
  4. Ignore emails -  This will  send the emails to Blackhole and ignore it

After setting the above options click the Add Forwarder button. This will create a forwarder email account.

Delete Forwarder

You can delete the email forwarder from this page, by clicking the  Delete button for the respective email account.

Forwarder email account is a virtual email, so you can't use it with email clients on webmail.

Email Pipe

Create  & Manage Email Pipes

A pipe is a virtual email address that will pipe your emails to the desired program or script. It doesn't store the emails. You can manage and create email pipes from this page.

Location :

 Email -> Email Pipe

Create a Pipe Email Address

To create a pipe email address, simply click the button  Add New Pipe. This will take you to the pipe email creation page. Now you need to fill out the following,

Address, the pipe email name. It is the part before the @ symbol on an email account

Select Domain, the domain that is used by the email account. It is the part after the @ symbol

Destination Program or Script, The full path to the script into which the email is sent for further processing

Now click the button  Add Pipe, to create  the email pipe account

Delete Email Pipe

To delete an email pipe account, click the Delete button on this page.

Distribution Lists

Email Distribution Lists

An email distribution list is a group mailing list. An email sent to the distribution email will be sent to all members of the distribution list. It doesn't store email. It is a virtual email address.

Eenos is the first hosting control panel that supports email distribution lists.

Location : 

Email -> Distribution Lists

Create an Email Distribution List

To create a new email distribution list, click the button Add New Distribution List. This will take you to the distribution list creation page. You need to fill out the following to create an email distribution list.

Address to distribute emails, The name of the distribution list.  It is the part before the @ symbol in an email

Select Domain, the domain name for creating the list. It is the part after @symbol  in an email address

Distribution Members, the email address of the recipient's email who will receive emails sent to the above address. You can enter a comma-separated distribution email addresses or line-by-line email accounts.

Now click the button Create Distribution List, this will add the new distribution list for you.

Delete Distribution List

To delete an email distribution list, click the Delete button on the respective email distribution list.

Edit  Distribution List

You can manage members on a distribution list. You may add new members or remove existing members from the distribution list. To edit the distribution list, click the Edit button for the respective email list. This will take you to a new page from which you can manage the members. You can do the following on the edit page,

Deleting all members on the distribution list will remove the distribution list itself.


  


Mail Exchange Server

Manage Email Routing

You can choose your local server or a remote server as your email server. The local server is the same Eenos server in which you are hosting the website. A remote server is a remote mail exchange server.

Location:

 Email -> Mail Exchange Server

If you choose to enable a remote mail exchange server, make sure to edit the MX records of the domain DNS settings and point to that remote server. Otherwise, the emails may fail.

Mail Exchange Server

 The server that runs the SMTP / Email service for the desired domain. There are two types of mail exchange servers,

  1. Local, the same server itself
  2. Remote, a third-party mail server like Google, Microsoft, etc.
Switch to Local

This is to switch the domains' remote mail server settings to a local email server. So that this domain may use the current server as an email server. 

Switch to Remote

To use an external third-party email server as an SMTP server. 

If you use a Remote mail server, you can't manage any email accounts,  forwarders, email pipes, or distribution list for that domain from this server, because this server is not hosting any such email address. 


Mailing Lists

Mailman 3 Mailing Lists

Eenos hosting control panel supports Mailman3 modern mailing list manager. To access the Mailman3 mailing list manager, go to the following  Location :

Email -> Mailing Lists

If you can't find this option in your control panel, then the mailman3 service is disabled by your web hosting company or service provider.

Eenos doesn't backup, restore, transfer, or migrate the mailman3 services at this time.  This application is a new version of the Mailman service and doesn't have the option to take individual mailing list backups at this time. So the backup and restore of Mailman3 is a future option on eenos. You are warned before using Mailman3.

Mailman3 is a  modern Python application to manage mailing lists. 

Create Mailman3 Mailing List

To create a new Mailman3 Mailing List, click the button Add New Mailing List, this will take you to the mailing list creation page. You may need to fill out the following to create the mailing list,

Mailing List Email Name, a name for the mailing list, is the part before the @ symbol on an email account

Select Domain, a domain that owns the mailing list, it is the part  after @symbol on an email account

Mailing List Name, a name for the mailman3 list

Mailing List Description, a description of the list. eg: What is the use of this list?

Mailing List Admin Email, an administrator email account for this list

Mailing List Admin Name, the name of the list administrator 

Admin Password, a password for the list admin that will be used to manage this mailing list

List Visibility, Either public or private list. 

Remember, the  Mailing List Admin will receive an activation email at the given address to activate the mailing list and manage it. So ensure you are giving the correct valid email address

Now click the button Create Mailing List, which will deploy a new mailman3 mailing list.

Access Mailman3 Mailing List

You can access  all your  Mailman3  lists on a website  from a web interface using the  following link,

 https://your-website-name/mailman/

For example, if your website name is foo.com and to see all your mailman3 list interfaces go to  the following link,

https://foo.com/mailman/

You can access individual mailman3 list  web interface by clicking the List Name from,

Email -> Mailing Lists -> Manage Mailman Mailing Lists 

Manage Mailman Mailing Lists

Eenos provides an interface to manage mailman3 lists with the following features. 

To manage everything on your mailing list, you need to log in to the List web interface using the list admin logins.

Web Mail

Eenos Web Mail Service

A feature-rich interface to manage emails from the web.  Eenos control panel provides the Roundcube webmail platform with lots of plugins as it is the best interface for managing emails over a browser.  You can access the webmail interface on your domain using any of the following options.

Using the Mail Subdomain: https://mail.yourdomain.com/

Using the /webmail   url: https://yourdomain.com/webmail/

Address Books

You can manage your address books from this webmail interface. 

Email Filters

Eenos Dovecot Sieve service is a full-featured email filter system that is supported by webmail. You can manage the email filters from the webmail interface.


Email Filters

Manage Email Filters

Eenos provides Dovecot Sieve service as a full-featured email filter service. So that, you can create email filtering rules to manage your email accounts.

These filters are accessible from the eenos Web Mail service. You need to log in to the eenos webmail service. 

Access Mail Filter Interface

To access the Mail Filter interface, log in to webmail using your email account and then go to the following,

Webmail ->  Settings -> Filters

Create Filter 

To create an email filter, click on the Create Button on the top bar from the above link. It will take you to the email filter creation page and you need to fill out the following,

 Filter Name, A name for the email filter

Filter Enabled, a toggle button to enable or disable this filter

Scope, where to apply the filter. You may select one scope

Rules, set your filtering rules.  You can add multiple  rules to your inbox

Actions, explain what will do with the emails after processing this rule.

Now click the Save Button to create the filter.

Edit Filter

To edit the email filter, you may simply click the filter name from this page. It will show the filter configuration and you can edit the email filter rules.

Delete Filter

To delete an email filter,  select the filter and click the trash icon on the top bar.  This will remove the email filter that you created.

Eenos does not provide a web interface for  EXIM SMTP server-side filter rules which can only be added by server admins. There is no need to study exim or create rules for eenos users as we integrated it fully with your webmail service.  So, the exim filters are dedicated for server admins at this time.

Create Exim Domain SMTP Filter

To know how to create a domain-based exim smtp filter please read  from  here

You may need server root access to add domain-level filters

Create Exim  Email Account SMTP Filter

To know how to create an SMTP level filter in Exim please read the documentation from here.

You may need server root access to add SMTP level filters.