Web Site Hosting Features: Setting Up Your POP3 Email Accounts

  

Using our control panel setting up your POP3 email accounts is easy.

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  1. Access your Control Panel

  2. Click on the Mail Manager Icon

  3. Click New Address.

  4. Choose a Unique User Name and Password for that email address. (The user name will be the first part of the email address, i.e. username@yourdomain.com).

  5. You then need to configure your pop3 email program. (see below, Sending and Receiving Mail)

Editing Email Accounts

Email accounts can be set up to forward to other email accounts or to have automatic responses generated when email is received by the original account. Additionally, the Mail Manager allows you to delete email accounts as well as change passwords for email accounts.

Note: The Mail Manager Change Password tool is different from the Change Password Option that is available from the Control Panel. This Mail Manager tool affects only the password for the email addresses.

How To Edit an Existing Email Account:

1. From the Mail Manager, select the desired email account listed under the heading Addresses on the left-hand side of the screen. The Mailbox Options page displays for the specified email account. Email Forwarding is used to redirect email from one address to another. For example, you might have sales@yourdomain.com automatically redirected to your sales person's personal email address, and support@yourdomain.com redirected to your support person's personal email address, and so on.

Forwarding the email sent to this address to another address on the same, specified server:

If you select this option, you must also select the address from the list of possible email accounts on the server to which you would like to have the email forwarded.

Forwarding the email sent to this address to another address on a different server:

If you select this option, you must manually type the email address to which you are having mail forwarded in the text entry box provided. This would be used if you had an existing account with another service to which you would like your email forwarded.

After selecting the appropriate email forwarding option, you may also manually type text in the auto-response text entry box. If you choose this, be sure to select the Autoresponse for mail to... option. Any text you type in the space provided will automatically be sent to anyone who sends e-mail to the address you are currently editing.

After all edits are completed, click on the Save button.

EMAIL ALIASING With the email aliases you can receive your messages even if you don't have a POP account for this name. As for an example, you may send a mail message to anything@yourdomain.com and all the messages will be forwarded to your master account username@yourdomain.com.

Sending and Receiving Email:

Sending and receiving mail is not executed in the Control Panel. The mail tools and utilities available in the Control Panel are merely ways of setting up mail accounts and lists on the server on which your account resides. To send or receive mail, use your normal email client configured to retrieve mail from, and send mail through, your domain mail account.

Two popular such email programs are Eudora and MS Outlook Express. The two procedures that follow briefly describe how to configure these programs to work with your e-mail account. Once configured, you will be able to use these programs to send and receive email.

POP stands for "Post Office Protocol" and refers to the protocol used to get email from the server by email clients like Outlook Express.

SMTP stands for "Simple Mail Transport Protocol" and this is how email clients like Outlook Express send mail.

How To Configure the Outlook Express Mail Program:

1. In Outlook Express, select Tools and then select Accounts.

2. Make sure the Mail tab is selected. Single-click on the Add> button, and then choose Mail from the pop-up list. The Internet Connection Wizard opens, displaying Your Name page.

3. Type your name in the Display Name field. Select Next>.

4. Type the e-mail address you have set up on your account in the Email address field. Make sure the option I have an e-mail address that I'd like to use is selected. Select Next>.

Note: If Outlook Express is configured for other email addresses, these fields may automatically be completed. If needed, this information can be deleted and replaced with the new information.

5. From the Mail server type drop-down list, choose POP3. Enter the name of your Incoming Mail Server: This is your domain name (mail.yourdomain.com). Enter the name of your Outgoing Mail Server: This is your Internet Service Provider's (ISP) outgoing mail server. If you do not know this, you will need to contact your ISP to provide you with the information.

6. When done, select Next>. The Internet Mail Logon page displays. Type the e-mail username and password for your e-mail account in the appropriate fields. Select Next>.

7. At the Congratulations screen, select Finish to complete the setup.

How To Configure the Eudora Mail Program:

1. In Eudora, select Tools from the main menu, and then select Options.

2. Select the Checking Mail icon located in the Category list.

3. On the right side of the dialog box, enter your domain name (mail.yourdomain.com) in the Mail Server field. Enter your username for that account in the Login Name field. Fill in any additional options you would like on this screen.

4. Select the Incoming Mail icon located in the Category list.

5. On the right side of the dialog box, select the Server Configuration type of POP. Fill in any additional options you would like on this screen.

6. Select the Sending Mail icon located in the Category list.

7. On the right side of the dialog box, enter your e-mail address for the account in Return Address field. Enter the name of your Internet Service Provider's (ISP) outgoing mail server in the SMTP Server field. If you do not know this, you will need to contact your ISP to provide you with the information. Fill in any additional options you would like on this screen.

8. Select OK to apply the changes and exit the dialog box.

POP3 email accounts are included in all our hosting packages.