Adding email addresses in cPanel - Office 365 query

[Blaby Loyal]

Following some great service from Dan at Hi Hosting I'm now looking to unleash my skills into the world of websites and cPanel.

If I add extra email accounts via cPanel will that have an impact on what I'm paying on Office 365 or are they (totally) unconnected in this respect.

 

[WESH.UK]

If I add extra email accounts via cPanel will that have an impact on what I'm paying on Office 365 or are they (totally) unconnected in this respect.

If you are only subscribing to the office 365 software, then you can setup as many cPanel mailboxes as you want. If however you are using MS Email and your Emails all go via MS servers, then setting up cpanel mailboxes will do nothing and have no use.

 

[Blaby Loyal]

This is going to be a steep learning curve for me folks

 

[ServWise]

They are not connected, however they may not be usable if the domain you are using in office 360 is assigned to MS servers for mail not your cpanel servers. As long as DNS is also setup to use the mail servers on cpanel then your good to go. It can however get complicated so talk to your host to check.

 

[Dan_HiHosting]

Thanks for the kind words, glad you're pleased with our service.

You can have one or the other - not both.

So as you're using Office 365 for email, any email account you create in your cPanel won't be used or take effect.

You'll need to add the extra email accounts in Office 365, as that's where you're sending and receiving email from and to.

If you don't need to add additional users (actual different people), then you should be able to use aliases, that can for example deliver all emails to [email protected] to [email protected] or another existing email account. That can keep costs down if all you want is another email address which will be accessed by the same users.

Thanks for choosing us. Just let us know if you need any more help.

All the best,

Dan

 

[Blaby Loyal]

If you don't need to add additional users (actual different people), then you should be able to use aliases,

Thanks - alias now up and running.

 

[Dan_HiHosting]

Thanks great, aliases are quite handy. Glad the curve wasn't too steep in this case

 

[ffox]

If you don't need to add additional users (actual different people), then you should be able to use aliases, that can for example deliver all emails to [email protected] to [email protected] or another existing email account. That can keep costs down if all you want is another email address which will be accessed by the same users.

You don't need to use aliases.

Provided that you have O365 Business Premium, Business Essentials, E1, E3 or E5 Plan, you have Exchange on-line.

That means you can set up as many O365 Groups as you want. Each Group will have a unique email address and a shared mail box.

In the Outlook web client (OWA), scroll down to groups and click 'New Group'. Name your group (say, [email protected]) and add current O365 users to it (just yourself if you only run one O365 licence). Configure it to send emails to each member, or just to the group and it's job done. The shared mailbox will show up at the bottom of your folder list in the left nav column of O365 Outlook. Add it to favourites if you want it at the top.