Here’s a brief troubleshooting guide to help setting up your email. 99% of all email issues result from improper settings. Be sure to follow through this troubleshooting guide, before you submit a ticket to the helpdesk:

Troubleshooting Step 1.

Make sure that the domain that is having email issues, has not expired – If the domain registration has expired, you won’t have email access for that domain.

Troubleshooting Step 2.

Some ISP’s actively block port 25 to other servers other than their own. The symptom of this would be a ‘Time out’ when attempting to connect to our smtp server via your ISP’s connection.

What should you do? Contact your ISP first to establish this if you are getting time out messages and the connection is not being made to our servers.

If your ISP is blocking port 25, then you can change your settings to port 26, or you can simply change your outgoing mail [SMTP] to your ISP’s mail server [mail.yourISP.com] in order for you send mail through your ISP.

To change to port 26, check your Outlook Express “Advanced” tab. You’ll see SMTP set to 25, so just change that to 26, and you’re right to go!

Troubleshooting Step 3.

Make sure that the email account’s username does not contain any capital letters. So this is wrong – Barry@mydomain.com and this is correct – barry@mydomain.com

Troubleshooting Step 4.

Make sure that the domain having email problems, is fully propagated (it takes 12-24 hours for new domain names to become active) and that you are using the correct nameservers. You cannot use email before the domain is propagated.

Troubleshooting Step 5.

Make sure that the domain that is having email issues, has enough disk space assigned to it. If your domain is over its allotted disk space, then this will cause email issues. You can check to see the domain’s disk space by accessing your cPanel.

Troubleshooting Step 6.

Also make sure that the email account has enough email disk space assigned to it. This is the amount of disk space that you have created your email account with. So check in your cPanel >> “Mail Management” >> “POP Email Accounts” >> then click on the Edit Quota link >> then add more disk space there if necessary.

Troubleshooting Step 7.

Access your cPanel and create a test email account. Setup that email account in your Email program and run tests to and from that account.

Troubleshooting Step 8.

Make sure that you tick the box that says “My server requires authentication” as follows –

Enable, My server requires authentication.

 

Troubleshooting Step 9.

Make sure that you have your full email address as your username here –

Make sure that you have your full email address in Account name section.

 

Troubleshooting Step 10.

Make sure that you have the correct domain name in the mail.yourdomain.com as per –

Make sure that you have entered the correct domain name.

 

Troubleshooting Step 11.

Make sure that you have the correct password that you entered when setting up the account as per –

Make sure that you have entered the correct password.

 

Troubleshooting Step 12.

If you have checked all your settings, followed the above steps and your email is still not working, open a ticket at the Helpdesk and we’ll troubleshoot the issue for you.

It is imperative that you go through the above steps, before submitting a ticket. The above information is to empower you with knowledge, so you can fix issues quickly and not need to rely on the helpdesk for such issues. This helps us out too.

If you still have any problems in setting up your email please open a support ticket and we’ll help you out.