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Using Your E-mail

If your web site is hosted on my hosting service, then there are two ways you can access and use your E-mail: web-based and POP3 (Post Office Protocol version 3) (SMTP, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol). (My E-mail system does not support IMAP protocol.)

Note. The information in this section is specifically for use with E-mail accounts associated with a web site that is hosted on my hosting service. The steps or information might be different for other E-mail servers and systems.

Naturally, before you can use your E-mail, you must have an Internet connection of some kind AND have created at least one E-mail account with your vDeck Control Panel.

Web-based - use any web browser (Firefox, Opera, Netscape, Internet Explorer, etc.).

Recommended only for when you are away from your office or home. This method is easier to initially set up, but it is the more difficult way to use and manage your E-mail, and you can do less with your mail. Click here for how to use your web browser to receive and send your Whatever@YourDomain E-mail.

Web-based E-mail will work with any type of Internet connection, and does not require any changes to your web browser to use it from any location.

POP 3 (SMTP) E-mail Program - use any E-mail program (Eudora, Thunderbird, Outlook Express, etc.). Additionally, there are good E-mail clients built-in to the Opera web browser and the Mozilla web browser suite.

Recommended for when you are in your office or at home. This method is a bit more difficult to initially set up, but you can much more easily manage your E-mail, and do a lot more with it.

If you use E-mail for anything more than just sending mail to and from “Aunt Martha” a few times a week, then you probably should “move up” from the E-mail program that came pre-installed on your computer to a more advanced E-mail program. Most good E-mail programs have built-in anti-spam features.

POP3 E-mail will require some changes to the settings in your E-mail program when you are not using your usual Internet Service Provider to connect to the Internet.

Please read all of the steps before you start following them. In a few places, you must enter some information about your Internet Service Provider (ISP). The information is different for almost every ISP, and there is no way I can know the specific information for your particular ISP.

To use a POP 3 (SMTP) E-mail program, you need to know the following information:

Outgoing mail server (SMTP) : obtained from your Internet Service Provider. Some typical outgoing mail server names are:

mail.cableone.net
mail.bellsouth.net
smtpauth.earthlink.net
mail.megagate.com
smtpauth.peoplepc.com
mail.xfoneusa.net
smtp.datasync.com (merged into xfoneusa)
mail.i-55.com (merged into xfoneusa)

Outgoing mail port : usually port 25, but your particular ISP might use a different port.
Incoming mail server (POP3) : mail.yourdomain (for example: mail.WebSite.com)
Incoming mail port (POP3) : port 110

Click here for a list and comparison of E-mail clients (programs)

Here are step-by-step instructions on how to configure and set up:

Click here for other E-mail programs.

Here are step-by-step instructions on how to configure and set up the E-mail portion of the web browsers:

If you use America Online (AOL) as your Internet Service Provider (ISP), then be sure to read this, too.

revised: March 22, 2007

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