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Email Setup
(See "Free Tools" for instructions on accessing your site's control panel (cPanel))

In cPanel, under the "Mail" section, click on the "Email Accounts" icon. That will take you to the screen you see below.

To add one or more pop3 (Post Office Protocol, version 3) email accounts, simply type the name into the "Add a New Email Account" window.  Do yourself a favor and avoid the use of caps, (the internet is case sensitive), or special characters you have to explain every time you give out your email address.  (NOTE: You cannot use spaces.)

Next, assign the email account a password.  Again, it will be case sensitive, and a minimum of 4 characters.  Next, please note that I changed the default "Mailbox Quota" from 250MB to 25MB.  250 megabytes is enough to store 250 copies of War and Peace if it's just text, and therefore totally unnecessary.  Please change it to 25 megs. When you're done, click the "Add" button.

Next you should see the screen below that says "Account Created", and it will list the email you created.  At the bottom of the screen, it asks if you want to 

configure this account to work with a mail client.  If you are using Outlook Express and want any/all of the email accounts you just created to appear in its "Main Identity", hit "Yes", and when the next screen comes up, select "Auto-Configure Microsoft Outlook Express® for POP3 Access".

Make sure Outlook Express is closed, then read the prompts that will come up carefully, and it will set up the new account on your local computer for you. 

If you want to set up multiple identities in Outlook Express for the purpose of separating your business and personal email addresses, (always a good idea), or if you use some other email client, then click "NO" on that previous screen and go to the tutorial on "Setting Up Outlook Express" for instructions on how to set up the email accounts manually, or to get the settings information for your email client.