Overview
This article provides an overview of DreamHost's webmail service, which is used to connect to an email address you have added to your website in the panel.
Prerequisites
Make sure you have an active email service on your account and have already added an email address in the DreamHost panel before proceeding.
- Free email service — Email hosting is free with any VPS or Dedicated hosting plan
- Paid email plan — A paid email plan can be added to a Web Hosting plan, or as a standalone service to a domain registration (if you do not need to host your website online).
Please note that when adding the first address to a domain, it could take 4–6 hours for the DNS to update online before you are able to access webmail. Any additional addresses you add are immediately available.
Accessing Webmail
Visit the following URL to log into your webmail service:
Updating your email password
See this article if you need to update your email password.
Additional webmail resources
The following articles provide details on managing the different features of your webmail service.
Managing webmail
See this article for information on composing emails, managing your inbox, subscribing to new folders, and custom configurations.
Managing contact
See the Webmail contacts article for information on managing contacts.
Webmail Spam
See the Webmail Spam article for ways to filter and manage spam.
Adding HTML
See the Using HTML in Webmail article for information on adding HTML to your signature.
Layout
See the Changing your Webmail Layout article for details on changing the way Webmail appears.
Webmail alternatives
These alternatives are available if you prefer not to use webmail.
Hosting with non-DreamHost mail
DreamHost offers Google Workspace, a collection of apps that help organize and simplify your organization's workflow and includes a mail service (Gmail). See this article for more information.
Using Gmail as a Webmail client
Gmail's Mail Fetcher POP3 client emails from your DreamHost mail account into Gmail. It can also use SMTP to send mail using your DreamHost address.