Deleting an email account
Objective
You want to:
- Delete an email account you no longer use.
- Reset an email account to use it with a new email address.
- Reset an email account in order to cancel it.
This guide explains how to delete or reset an email account of your email solution.
Requirements
- A preconfigured OVHcloud email solution MX Plan (available with a web hosting plan)
- Access to the OVHcloud Control Panel as the Admin contact of the email service concerned (section
Web Cloud)
Instructions
To check if your MX Plan solution is a legacy version, please refer to the table in the “Identifying your MX Plan solution” section of this guide.
- Log in to your OVHcloud Control Panel.
- Open the
Web Cloudsection. - Click
MX Plan. - Select the domain concerned.
- Go to the
Email accountstab. - The window that appears will display the existing email accounts. Click the
...button to the right of the account you want to modify, then clickReset this account.

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