Cox Email Settings

To access the different settings available within Cox Email, complete the following steps.

Access https://myemail.cox.net and sign in with your User Name and Password.

From the Cox Email inbox on the upper right-hand side of the toolbar, click the Settings icon.

From the pop-up window, complete the following steps.


 

1. From the Themes section, click to select one of the themes for your inbox.
2. From the Layout section, click to select one of the following choices for the layout of your inbox.
   • Vertical
   • Horizontal
   • List
3. From the List options section, click to select one of the following options to display next to each email in the list.
   • Contact pictures
   • Checkboxes
   • Simple

From the pop-up window, click All settings.


 

From the Settings pop-up window, select from the following choices for customization options for Cox Email users.


 

• Basic Settings
• Inbox
• Vacation Notice
• Auto Forward
• Filter Rules
• Blocked Senders
• Spam Settings
• Contacts
• Calendar

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Basic Settings 

Refer to the table below for details about Basic Settings.

Note: Some settings require a page reload to take effect.
 

Inbox 

Refer to the table below for details about the Inbox settings.
 

Vacation Notice

Complete the following steps to create a vacation message to automatically reply to incoming emails.

1. Create a vacation message.
2. Select the Start and End dates.
3. Click the Vacation notice toggle to the On position to activate.

Auto Forward

Complete the following steps to auto-forward your incoming email.

1. Click the Auto forward toggle to the On position.
2. Enter the email address to forward incoming emails.
3. Click to check the box for the following.
   • Keep a copy of the message
   • Process subsequent rules
4. Click Apply changes.

Filter Rules

To help ensure that incoming emails from certain senders or entire domains do or do not get routed to specific folders, you can create, edit, and delete rules. Verify that all filter conditions and subsequent rule processes are correct and will function as you intend before saving your new or edited filter rules.

Complete the following steps to set up mail filter rules.

1. In the Settings window, click to select Filter Rules.
2. In the Mail Filter Rules window, click Add new rule.
3. From the Create new rule window, complete the following fields.
   • Rule name
   • Conditions, click Add condition and from the drop-down menu select the applicable items.
   • Actions, click Add condition and from the drop-down menu select the applicable items.
4. Click Save.

Blocked Senders

View the list of email addresses or domains you've blocked to prevent them from sending you emails.

1. To add a new blocked sender, click Add new address and enter the information.
2. To remove an address from the blocked list, click Remove selected.

Spam Settings

In your inbox, click Mark as Spam on emails to report it to the Cox dynamic spam filtering system.



Marking as spam does not block a sender from emailing you. To learn how to block a sender, see Filter Rules and Blocked Senders.

If you need to notify us that an email is not spam, complete the following steps.

1. Within the email, click on the More actions icon that resembles three dots.
2. From the drop-down menu, click Not Spam.
   
   Result: The email moves to your inbox.

Contacts

You can change the format of how names are displayed in your contact list by completing the following steps.

1. From the Settings window, click Contacts.
2. In the Display of names section, click the following options.
   • Language-specific default
   • First name Last name
   • Last name, First Name
3. In the Link postal addresses with map service section, click the following options.
   • Google Maps
   • Open Street Map
   • No link

Calendar

Refer to the table below for details about Calendar settings.