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title: Create your first email account
description: "An email account stores mail for an address on your domain (for example `you@yourdomain.com`). Create it in the hosting panel after the domain points at Get Simple. 1. Open your [hosting panel](/knowledgebase/open-hosting-panel/) 2. Open **Email** 3. Select **Add account** 4.…"
url: "https://getsimple.net/knowledgebase/first-email/"
updated: "2026-09-18"
category: Get Started
---

# Create your first email account

An email account stores mail for an address on your domain (for example `you@yourdomain.com`). Create it in the hosting panel after the domain points at Get Simple.

1. Open your [hosting panel](/knowledgebase/open-hosting-panel/)
2. Open **Email**
3. Select **Add account**
4. Enter the address
5. Choose **Mailbox** (send, receive, and store mail)
6. Set a strong password
7. Select **Add**

Choose **Forwarder-only** only if the address should pass mail to another inbox and never store it.

Open the inbox from Email → webmail in the hosting panel, or add the account to your phone with the IMAP/SMTP settings shown there.

Mail will not arrive until the domain’s DNS includes the mail records this hosting created. If you kept DNS at the registrar, copy the MX records shown in the panel.

### Need help?

See [Get Help](/knowledgebase/get-help/).