Web Hosting and E-mail Services Guide

We hosting services must also include email services and email accounts.

Addressing E-mail Accounts

Web hosting solutions must also include e-mail accounts for every person in your company.

The e-mail addresses for the people in your company must appear somewhat like the following:

name@nameofcompany.com

firstname.lastname@nameofcompany.com

initials@nameofcompany.com


What is POP E-mail?

POP is Post Office Protocol. It is a standard client/server protocol to send and receive e-mail. When the e-mails are received it is held in the internet server till it is picked up by the client e-mail program, such as Mozilla Thunderbird and Microsoft Outlook.

What Does IMAP Email Mean?

IMAP is Internet Message Access Protocol. It is also a standard protocol to send and receive e-mail. When the e-mails are received it is held in the internet server till it is picked up by the client e-mail program, such as Mozilla Thunderbird and Microsoft Outlook.

IMAP is considered to be more improved when compared to POP as the e-mails that are stored on an IMAP server could be accessed from other computers (from a computer at home or office workstation) without transferring messages back and forth in between computers. The design of POP is to support e-mail access on only a single computer.

What About Web-based E-mail?

Web-based e-mail services allows in accessing your e-mail through a web browser. You are required to log into your e-mail account through the internet to send or retrieve your e-mail. The ability to access your e-mails from any part of the world using any web browser is an extremely attractive option. Some of the examples of the web based e-mail services are Yahoo! Mail and Gmail.

What Exactly is E-mail Forwarding?

The E-mail forwarding facility permits you to have various e-mail personalities. Using e-mail forwarding, it is possible to setup aliases to be used for other e-mail accounts, for instance, info@nameofcompany.com could be forwarded to name@nameofcompany.com and sales@nameofcompany.com could be forwarded to firstname.lastname@nameofcompany.com

Last But Not Least: Mailing Lists

A few service providers offer the capabilities of mailing list. This is important in case you intend to send out e-mails to a lot of people at the same time.

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