In addition to mail forwarding options,
email can be retrieved from POP mailboxes using a program like Eudora. You have access
to one master POP account and 5* (or more)
additional POPs that appear in your Control Panel within Email Settings.
PPP internet access is required to read or send email. You will need to
use your local ISP's SMTP server address to send mail. If you can use a
special mail program like Eudora you might be able to specify a different
return address.
** Important **
If your hard disk allocation is
near or at capacity, you will not be able to receive POP email. We highly
recommend that you do not let your disk space get close to the maximum
limit. You can easily monitor your disk space usage within your Control
Panel.
The Master POP Account
By default, all email addressed to your domain is forwarded to the
default mail forwarding address listed
within Email Settings under your Control Panel. As such, e-mail addressed
to anyone@yourdomain.com will be forwarded to your "real" e-mail address.
An alternative to having mail forwarded is to retrieve mail from POP
mailboxes.
To recap, the master POP account is merely an alternative to the
default mail forwarding address. If you remove the default mail forwarding
address, all e-mail that was normally forwarded to that address will be
held in the master POP account. The five additional POP accounts within
Email Settings allow for more privacy in retrieving e-mail to specific
addresses.
To retrieve email from the master POP account, you must first remove
the default mail forwarding address in Email Settings under your Control
Panel. By removing the default mail forwarding address, all mail addressed
to your domain can be retrieved from the master POP account rather than
being forwarded. The additional POP accounts are for specific aliases
which require their own private mail box. Use the following settings to
configure your mail program to access the master POP account:
POP Account:
<userid>@yourdomainname.com
SMTP
Server: (use the SMTP server provided by your ISP)
Substitute your account userid above. Your master POP account password will
be the same as your web account password.
Please be advised that the
master pop account will reside under your /u/web/userid/stats/mail/
directory as a text file just like the other additional POP accounts that
come with your website. Please do not name one of the additional
pop accounts same as your userid name. Please keep in mind that all POP
boxes do count against your disk space.
Configurable POP Accounts
You can also choose to set up POP Accounts only for specific e-mail
addresses. For example, email addressed to sales@yourdomain.com could be
held in a private POP mailbox and be accessed with a unique id and
password.
Locate the "POP Accounts" section in Email Settings. To create a new
POP account, enter the username of the new POP account. For example, if
you want e-mail addressed to webmaster@yourdomain.com to be held in a POP
account, enter the username "webmaster" in the column titled,
"@yourdomain". Be sure to enter a unique id and password for each new POP
account as illustrated below.
For this example, the following settings would be used to access the "webmaster"
POP account:
POP Account: customer1@yourdomain.com
SMTP Server: (use the SMTP server provided by your ISP)
*** Important ***
The User ID for the additional POP accounts is NOT
the same as your account userid. You need to assign unique ids and
passwords for access to the additional POPs for privacy.
Do not remove the default mail forwarding address in Email Settings
unless you will be retrieving email from the master POP account.
If more than five POP accounts are needed, contact our sales
department.
*Each of our plans includes a different number of free
POP mailboxes. Additional POP mailboxes are available at a rate of $2/mo.
per mailbox.