Creating Mail Accounts

Mail user account can be created on the specified domain either by Plesk Administrator or by Plesk client. To register new mail account in Plesk database, it is enough to specify some general setup information, namely: the domain ID where the mail account will be registered, and the mail account name.

In addition, you can specify various mail account settings (all of them are optional):

• Mail user access to the account through Plesk GUI
• Mail box size
• Mail box alias
• Mail user permissions
• Antivirus protection
• Mail group members (if the account acts as a mail group)
• Mail groups in which the mail account has membership
• Files to store in the repository
• Automatic response messages
• Mail addresses to which all incoming correspondence will be redirected automatically

A mail account can have all these settings specified, or it can hold just some of them. You can specify these settings when creating a mail account or later (they can be set using the set_prefs operation).