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Need Help With Hostgator Email

by charliepv
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I'm setting up a Wordpress blog and will use Hostagator for my webserver. Everything is simple & straightforward until I come to the email address field. Do I simply make one up on the spot like say, admin@bla bla .com, or info@bla bla.com, or does Hostgator provide this? Barring that, should I create a new one in Outlook or register one with Gmail first?

Thanks for any help. :confused:

charliepv
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  • Profile picture of the author Les Blackwell
    Yep that's exactly what you do.
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  • Profile picture of the author morwanneg
    Creating a gmail account is not necessary, you can just set up your own company email using hostgator's web mails. If you don't want to access your mail in hostgator, then you should configure a forwarder and send the emails to your gmail or yahoomail. Hope this helps.
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    • Profile picture of the author dbarnum
      HostGator has a lot of tutorials on this, too:


      Web Hosting Video Tutorials Provided by HostGator.com
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      • Profile picture of the author charliepv
        Thanks for the li*nk, Dbarnum. I'll hustle on over to the Gator.
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        • Profile picture of the author Devilfish
          If you're talking about the email address that's required during the Wordpress install process, you can use any email address. This is so that Wordpress can email you the password for the admin account. It can be changed at any point later on.

          If you want to use an email account on your domain, simple create one before running the script. You can access the account by using Outlook or a site like mail2web.com - Pick Up Your Email.
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    • Profile picture of the author charliepv
      Originally Posted by morwanneg View Post

      Creating a gmail account is not necessary, you can just set up your own company email using hostgator's web mails. If you don't want to access your mail in hostgator, then you should configure a forwarder and send the emails to your gmail or yahoomail. Hope this helps.
      Thank you Morwanneg!
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    • Profile picture of the author charliepv
      Originally Posted by morwanneg View Post

      Creating a gmail account is not necessary, you can just set up your own company email using hostgator's web mails. If you don't want to access your mail in hostgator, then you should configure a forwarder and send the emails to your gmail or yahoomail. Hope this helps.
      I really appreciate it Les.
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  • Profile picture of the author mywebwork
    If you're using the WordPress installation within Fantastico (via your CPanel) the e-mail address field will already be filled in with the address assigned to your hosting account. You can just use this address (and you can alway change the admin e-mail address later using the control panel).

    Bill
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    • Profile picture of the author charliepv
      Originally Posted by mywebwork View Post

      If you're using the WordPress installation within Fantastico (via your CPanel) the e-mail address field will already be filled in with the address assigned to your hosting account. You can just use this address (and you can alway change the admin e-mail address later using the control panel).

      Bill
      Thanks so much, Bill.
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