Set Up an Email Account for Your HostGator Domain

Internet Application Development

Parallel Project – Ch 8 The parallel project has

you create functionality for a feedback form you created in an earlier chapter

Part of the functionality you create is having the form email its contents to a business email address for the e-commerce business

You need to set up an email account for your fictional business –the one your parallel project is about

Log In to Your HostGator Account –Open the Email Accounts Tool

You control panel may look different from mine, because there are several skins you can choose from to customize the look of your control panel

Find the section for Mail Open the Email Accounts tool

There is a Default Account

There is a default email account set up for your domain

Your welcome to HostGatoremail included information about it

But, you may want to use a special email that is just for handling user feedback provided by the feedback form

Create an Email Address

An account you might create is something like feedback@yourdomainname

Send an Email to This New Account

Log in to a tool that you use to send emails and send a test email to the account you just created

Use whatever email tool you usually use

You should not get an error message indicating that the account does not exist

WHERE DO YOU CHECK EMAIL FOR THE ACCOUNT YOU SET UP?

Checking the email

Return to HostGatorControl Panel Home

Select WebMail tool and open it

You Are Already Logged In

You are already logged in with the default email account that matches your domain logon

So you have to log out in order to login with the new email address you set up for feedback

Log In with the New Email Address

And password

Select an Email Client to Use

Select one of the three email clients to use to read emails

I chose horde

You Should See an Email in the Inbox

Use Your Domain Email Address

As you create the feedback form functionality in your parallel project – use your own email address The instructor will send some feedback via

your form

Test Your Form

Test your form in your parallel project – once you have updated it to send email to your account

There is a Warning

The warning does not necessarily mean that the emails were not sent

It does mean that the log file, feedback.txt, did not have data added to it

You need to create the data directory on your HostGatorweb space in order for this to work

Success?

No warning once the directory has been created

Check Your Domain Email for the Account You Created

eMails received!

Set Up an Email Account for Your HostGator Domain

CIS 2336 Internet Application Development