The default email account in DirectAdmin
Every hosting package includes a mailbox with the same name as your DA username. This is the default email account. In the Email Accounts list, it has the label Default next to it. You don't need to do anything with it.
This is how this account works:
- The password is always the same as your DA password. So you change it via Change DA password in My WebOké.
- You can't delete the account.
- System messages from DirectAdmin and the output of cron jobs end up in this mailbox.
- To log in to webmail, use just the username, without @domain, and enter your package's server name in the Server field (such as linux2023.webawere.nl). For mailboxes you created yourself, you always log in with the full email address and leave Server empty. You can find your server name in Which server is my hosting package running on?
Tip: if you actually want to receive mail on your domain, create your own email address, such as info@yourdomain.com. Read Creating a new email address.
Detailed explanation with screenshots: Your package's default email account in the DirectAdmin manual.
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