---
title: "Change the password for an email account"
url: "https://inleed.com/helpcenter/change-email-password"
language: "en"
updated: "2026-11-06"
category: "Email"
type: "guide"
---

# Change the password for an email account

Each email account has its own password, separate from the client area’s. If you’ve forgotten it, it can’t be retrieved, but you can change it in DirectAdmin.

## Right guide?

- Forgotten your client area password?  
  [Reset your client area password](https://inleed.com/helpcenter/reset-client-area-password)

## Faster: let an AI app do it

If you’ve connected Inleed to an AI app, just write what you want done, for example:

> Change the password for info@example.se to a new strong one

Done. The password for info@example.se is changed, and the app gives you the new one.

[How to connect an AI app](https://inleed.com/helpcenter/connect-ai-app)

## How to change it

1. Log in to the [client area](https://login.inleed.net) and click your hosting under **Websites, email & DNS**.

   DirectAdmin opens. No password needed.

2. Click **E-mail Accounts** under **E-mail Manager**.

   Your email accounts are listed.

3. Click the three dots on the address’s row.

4. Choose **Change Password/Username**.

5. Click **Generate Random Password**.

   A new strong password is filled in. You can also type your own.

   Click the eye to see the password, and save it. It can’t be retrieved later.

6. Click **Save**.

## How to know it worked

The new password works straight away.

## If something doesn’t work

### My phone or computer can’t fetch email after the change

**Why:** The app is still using the old password.

**What to do:** Enter the new password in every app and computer that fetches the email.

[Update the password in your email app](https://inleed.com/helpcenter/update-password-email-app)

### My website or webmail stops responding at home after the change

**Why:** An app with the old password has got your network’s IP address blocked.

**What to do:** Enter the new password in the app, then whitelist your IP address.

[Whitelist your IP address in the firewall](https://inleed.com/helpcenter/whitelist-ip-address)

## Good to know

- Change the password in all your apps at the same time. Otherwise they keep trying the old one, and your IP address can get blocked.
- You can also change the password in [webmail](https://mail.inleed.com/), under **Settings › Password**. You need the current password for that.

## Related guides

- [Create an email account](https://inleed.com/helpcenter/create-email-account)
- [Email client settings](https://inleed.com/helpcenter/email-client-settings)
- [Update the password in your email app](https://inleed.com/helpcenter/update-password-email-app)
- [Whitelist your IP address in the firewall](https://inleed.com/helpcenter/whitelist-ip-address)