Email clients such as thunderbird, evolution, claws mail, eudora, applemail, lotus note, outlook and so on are commonly used to manage your emails.
With your domain name hosted, you can access your email in two ways:
(1) By using an email client installed in your computer. It is very easy to configure an email client installed in your computer. The basic configurations include:
- the incoming mail server (POP3, IMAP or HTTP). Set it to mail.yourdomain.com if your domain name is called yourdomain.com.
- the outgoing mail server (SMTP). Set it to smtp.yourisp.net if your Internet service provider’s name is called yourisp.net.
- your email account login details. Set it to sales+yourdomain.com if your email account is called sales. Enter your password.
The rest of the configurations are your name, organisation, your email address, your reply email address. In this example it is sales@yourdomain.com.
(2) By using Webmail. This is like any other webmail that you probably have been using e.g. hotmail, yahoo, gmail etc.
Procedure to logon your webmail:
- Use a web browser e.g. firefox, opera, internet explorer, safari, sea monkey etc. Start the web browser and enter yourdomain.com/webmail in the address bar, and press the enter key.
- Click the cancel button when the first screen pops up requiring you to enter your username and password for authentication.
- The next screen you see is the webmail login screen where you enter your email address (sales@yourdomain.com as in this example), and your password. Then click the login button.
- The next screen shows the options (horde or squirrel) that you can use to check your email. I normally use Squirrel. So just click the Squirrel mail button or link.
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