How to set up an email client?
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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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Private email
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Have you been getting too many spam emails?
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This is worst if you are using public and free email services like hotmail, gmail, yahoo and so on.
Even if they all have spam protection, you still keep getting spams.
Companies do get spam emails as well especially if you publish your email address on your website. This is definitely unavoidable.
The way to get around it is to publish it as e.g. sales [at] yourcompany dot com, or something similar. This is because spammers use programs to sniff valid email addresses in the Internet.
As the format above is not a valid email address, spammers will not be able to send spams to you. The format is in human readable form.
Of course there is plus and minus to the way you publish your email address on the web. It is normally acceptable for convenience as readers can just click and send an email to you if they have email client installed in their computers.
What is private email?
It is just a domain name your purchase and hosted in a remote server for emailing and even website purposes.
Let us say you do not want to have a website, but would like to have your own email address free of spam, you could register a domain name for yourself and get it hosted. A domain name can be anything including your name or surname if it is not taken e.g. if your name is Jessica Lollies you could have an email address like jessica@lollies.com for yourself and all your family.
You just need to buy lollies.com and get it hosted. You can then set up email addressed for your brothers and sisters, parents etc. So your brother will have his own email address john@lollies.com, your mother’s mary@lollies.com etc.
You can set up unlimited email addresses with the domain name you own. And of course the size of your mail box will be so much larger than the free email than you have been using.
You can set up your email with any email clients like outlook, firebird, evolution and so on very easily in your computer. Alternatively, you can just use the webmail service to check, write emails from the browser any where in the World just like you do with your gmail account.
In this way, your have personnal and cool email address free from spams.
You can share it with your whole family, relatives and even friends.
It only costs you about $100 a year, or 27 cents a day.
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