How to create a mailing list in Direct Admin This demo assumes you've already logged in to Direct Admin Now let's learn how to create a mailing list Scroll down... Click the Mailing Lists link Then click Create Mailing List Enter an address for the new mailing list When creating a mailing list, remember that you cannot use an email address that's already setup as a POP account, an email forwarder, or an autoresponder Then click Create Now let's see how to manage this mailing list..... click View The mailing list bulletin@demo1234.com has been created Let's manually add a new subscriber to the digest form of this mailing list. This means that the messages are stored for a period of time (i.e. weekly or monthly), and then sent out as one large message all at once Let's go ahead and add a subscriber to the digest list Click Add Let's see how to change the mailing list settings..... click here The new subscriber has been added as a digest subscriber, and is listed here Scroll down... You have complete control over the mailing list, including setting the list description, digest settings, subscribe policy, maximum message length, moderators, and much more Scroll down some more... When finished making changes to the mailing list settings, click Save Click the Home icon here This is the end of the tutorial. You should now be familiar with mailing lists, how to create them, how to manually add subscribers, and the types of settings you can modify
Becoming familiar and Navigating around in Direct Admin This demo assumes you've already logged in to Direct Admin Now let's familiarize ourselves with Direct Admin Across the top of the main Direct Admin screen, there are icons available for easy access to the most popular tools The Webmail icon will take you directly to your webmail application..... The Password icon is a quick link to where you can change or reset your account password..... The Help icon will take you to complete documentation on using Direct Admin..... The Files icon takes you directly to File Manager Let's go take a look at the available Help documentation..... click the Help icon ... and the Logout icon is what you click when you are finished with Direct Admin. You should always logout when you are finished Click the editing HTML link here This is the main Help page, and it has dozens of helpful links for learning how to use Direct Admin We get taken to a page that explains exactly how to edit HTML pages, complete with additional links you can click to get more information Now click the Creating e-mail accounts link Here's a page that explain how to create email accounts This help page is a terrific source of information on using Direct Admin On the right of the screen is some general account information You can see how much disk space you've used, and how much you have available to you..... ..... and same with Bandwidth (or data transfer), E-mails, FTP accounts and MySQL Databases Scroll down... Now back at the main Direct Admin page..... Click the Server Information link here ... and if we scroll down... Here we can see detailed information about the server..... Scroll back to the top of the page..... We can see if all the services in the server (Exim, MySQL, Apache, etc) are running properly Click the Home icon Now let's take a look at the Installed Perl Modules..... click here This page lists every Perl module that's installed in the server. You may need to consult this page if you're installing a script that needs a certain Perl module, and you're unsure if it's installed Scroll down... This list is very long..... Click the Home icon here This is the end of the tutorial. You should now be more familiar with navigating around in Direct Admin. To learn more about the various features of Direct Admin, you can return to the Help link on this main page
How to create a MySQL database in Direct Admin Click the MySQL Management link This demo assumes you've already logged in to Direct Admin Now let's learn how to create a MySQL database Let's go ahead and create a new database... click this link This is the main MySQL database screen where you can create new databases, or manage existing ones Create a Database Name, and Database Username in the spaces provided Then enter the database Username Password here..... ..... and again here Then click the Create button Scroll down... The database has been successfully created Now let's return to the database page.... Click Here Listed here are the values you'll need if connecting to this database from a program or script Let's click on the database we just created From this page you can create new databases, or modify existing ones Now click the modify privileges link for this user Let's leave everything unchanged.... click the Save button Although you'll typically never have to modify any of these settings, this is where you would limit certain types of access for specific users Click the Home icon here This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to create MySQL databases, and modify user preferences
How to create a Domain Pointer in Direct Admin This demo assumes you've already logged in to Direct Admin Now let's learn how to setup domain pointers Scroll down... Click the Domain Pointers link This is the main Domain Pointers screen A domain pointer allows you to point another domain name to your main account domain name, so that both domain names resolve to the same website You can setup as many domain pointers as your account plan will allow, resulting in many domain names all pointing to the same website Let's setup a domain pointer now.... enter a domain name to be redirected to this account Click the Add button The domain name you enter must have it's nameserver (or DNS) settings changed to the same DNS settings your main domain is set to..... this is done through your domain registrar Now let's delete the domain pointer we just created..... click here The new domain pointer has been setup! Then click Delete The domain pointer has been deleted Click the Home icon here This is the end of the tutorial. You can return to this section and setup as many additional parked domains as your account plan will allow
How to create a POP email account in Direct Admin This demo assumes you've already logged in to Direct Admin Now let's create a new POP email account Scroll down... Click the E-Mail Accounts link There is already a POP email account listed... it is the main POP account that every hosting account comes with (username@domainname.com) But we're not going to use that account.... we're going to create a new POP email account Click the Create mail account link here Here's where you create a new POP email account Enter the new email address you want to create here Give the new account a password Re-enter your password If you want to put a size (or storage space) limit on this email account, enter it here When finished, click the Create button That's it! The new POP email account has been created Scroll down... Click here when finished Details of the new account are listed here. Be sure to pass this information on to whoever will be using this email account, so they can properly setup their email program to access it Click the Home icon here This screen shows all the POP email accounts in your hosting account, including the account we just created From this screen you can create additional POP email accounts, delete existing ones, or change their passwords This is the end of the tutorial. Don't forget to setup your new POP email account in your favorite email program (i.e. Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, etc.)
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