E-mail Explained

E-MAIL Explained

Plusmail: This is a control panel to help you manage your redirects, mailing lists, autoresponders, and other mail type functions. You don't need to add your aliases to a list. All aliases will be routed to the default mail drop automatically. By default, all of your email goes to your default mailbox in your web space.

If someone sends mail to 'sales@yourname.com' , 'support@, anything@, anyone@yourname.com' it will all be accessable with any email reading program out there. You can use your MSIE or Netscape mail program. You can also download the windows version of 'The Bat" email program. Many people choose Outlook Express or The Bat because it is easy to manage the multiple email addresses and aliases within one program.

Setting up your email:

To read your email box, you need to supply your email program with just THREE pieces of information. First is your domain name. First, it needs to know that the mailbox it is looking for resides on yourname.com. Your POP3 and SMTP setting will both be just yourname.com (not smtp.yourname.com or pop.yourname.com) Second, it needs a username. Your username is just your domain name without the .com. Third, enter your password to be able to access and allow you to read the mail. By default, any and all mail goes to your main mailbox. If you need to redirect mail, you can have as many redirects as you want. You can redirect mail using that option in the Plusmail control panel.

Additional Mail Boxes:

You receive 50 additional free POP3 email boxes. If you need more than your free ones, we charge a $5 one time fee for each mailbox. Each new POP3 gets its own username and password to access the mail server. Most people find it inconvenient to have more than just the default mail box. If you need to add more POP3s, just go to the add POP3 option in the Plusmail control panel and you can instantly add a new POP3 to your account. Redirected mail does not count against your free extra POP3s.

How to use an alias:

An email alias is jut that, an alias. When you send a piece of email, the mail server checks to make sure you are a valid sender of the mail. It does that by checking your username and password before sending a piece of mail. This does not mean that your headers must all be the same. An email header is something like the "From:" or "Reply to:" name that is sent along with every email. You can change your email headers to say you are "sales@yourname.com" or "support@yourname.com" but not need an actual POP3 with sales or support associated with it. Any mail sent to you will go to your main mailbox. The person you are sending the mail to will see you as sales or support or whatever. Outlook Express and The Bat both allow you to easily manage many different aliases all from one single main box.