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How to change your email password in cPanel


While managing your email accounts on the server, there may be instances when you need to change the password for security purposes or need to reset it if you accidentally forgot your password. You can easily change or reset email password through your cPanel.

in this guide we’ll explain you how to change or reset email password in cPanel and webmail (with logging into cPanel and without logging into cPanel)

Methods to Change Email password in cPanel and Webmail.

Following are the methods to change email password in your cPanel and webmail (with logging into cPanel and without logging into cPanel). You can see the methods you want to use by clicking on the links below:

1. Change Email Account Password in your cPanel.
2. Change Email Account Password in Webmail.
3. Change Email Account Password without logging into cPanel.

1. Steps to Change Email Account Password in cPanel.

 

Follow the below given steps to change email password in cPanel:

Step 1) Firstly, you need to login into your cPanel.

Step 2) After logging in your cPanel, Go to ‘Mail’ section and click on ‘Email Accounts’.
Email Accounts section in cpanel

Step 3) After Clicking on ‘Email Account’ link in the navigation menu, you need to click on the ‘Change Password’ link and Fill the following details.

Click on Change Password in Email page

New Password: Type in a strong password that you want to set for your email account that you are creating. You can also use the “Password Generator” tool to generate a strong password for you.

Confirm Password: Retype the password that you had just entered above.

Step 4) Click on ‘Change Password’ button.

Click on Change Password

Congratulations!You have changed your email account password successfully.

2. Change Email Account Password in Webmail by logging into cPanel.

Follow the following steps to change email account password in webmail by logging into the cPanel:

Step 1) Login to your cPanel.

Step 2) After logging in your cPanel, Go to ‘Mail’ section and click on ‘Email Accounts’.
Email Accounts section in cpanel

Step 3) On Email accounts page, when you scroll down and you will find all the email accounts that you have created in your cPanel.

Click on the ‘More’ button next to the email account whose password you want to change & then click on ‘Access Webmail’ link in the navigation menu on the right hand side.

Access Webmail in cpanel

Step 4) After clicking in Access webmail link, then you need to click on the ‘Password & Security’ and enter the new details.

Click on Password and Security in webmail page
Step 5) Now click on ‘Change Password’ button.

Click on Change Password in Webmail page

The email account ‘test@yourdomain.com’ is successfully modified.

3. Change Email Account Password Without logging into cPanel.

You can also change your email account password in webmail without logging into your cPanel by opening any of the following links in your browser:

http://yourdomain.com:2095
http://yourdomain.com/webmail

Step 1) Open any of the above links in your browser and Click on the ‘Reset Password’

Click on the Reset Password
Step 2) After clicking on the ‘Reset Password’, you need to enter the username of the cPanel. After entering the username of the cPanel then click on ‘Reset Password’.

Reset Password

Step 3) Now you need to enter your registered email address that is associated with Domainking.NG E.g.‘abc@gmail.com’ and click on the ‘Send Security Code’

Fill the Email Address that is associated with Domainking.NG

Step 4) After clicking on ‘send security code’ you will receive an email from Domainking.NG that contains the security code. Enter Security Code that you will received from Domainking.NG and click on the ‘Submit’ button.

Click on the Submit button

Security Code: The system sent the security code to the account’s contact email address. If you did not set up a contact email address or you cannot access the contact email address, you cannot proceed.

Step 5) After clicking on the submit button then you need to enter your new password and confirm password that you want to set.

Fill your new Password that set by you

New Password: Type in a strong password that you want to set for your email account that you are creating. You can also use the ‘Password Generator’ tool to enter a strong password for you.

Confirm Password: Retype the password that you just set.

Step 6) Click on the ‘Set Password’ button.

Click on Set Password button
Congratulation! your email account’s password has been Changed.