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Setting up & Using Email Contents
Mail server information (POP3 host addresses)
POP3 Host Address: mail.<your
domain name>
SMTP Host Address: Provided by your ISP.
If BUILDANDHOST is your ISP and you dial in
through BUILDANDHOST dial then use mail.<your domain name> for you SMTP
Host Address
Setting
up POP3 Email Boxes
Once your domain is registered and active
in your control panel, you are able to set up email addresses for your
domain. A POP3 email address is a 'standard' email address, like one that
you may already have with your ISP. This will allow you to create an
address on your domain (e.g. sales@domain.co.uk),
which you can pick up from anywhere in the world.
To set up a POP3 email address on a domain,
you will first need to go to the email section of the control panel. This
can be done by clicking the 'e-mail' link from the control panel menu.
Once you have entered this section, you will see a screen similar to the
one below.
To enter your control panel go to http://cp.<your domain>
and enter your control panel user name and password.
You should now see a control panel like this:-
From here, you should click on email button.
You will then be presented with a screen that looks similar to the one
below:-
To create or edit an Email
account click on the POP Account (user) admin option. You will be
presented with a screen that looks similar to the one below:-
To add a new user. Click on
Add New User. You will be presented with a screen that looks similar
to:-
Enter the email address user
name and the POP3 password. Then press Create. You have now
set up an Email account. Repeat the process for all the Email
accounts you require. With BUILDANDHOST there in no limit on the
number of Email accounts that you can have.
Setting
up an alias
An Email Alias address is an email address
that can receive emails, but it does not work in the same way as a
standard POP3 box. An alias will purely receive an email, and then forward
it on to another designated address. An alias cannot have auto responders
attached to them, or any other special feature. If you needed anything
apart from forwarding, then a POP3 box would be a better choice.
To setup an Email Alias you will first need
to go to the email section of the control panel. This can be done by
clicking the 'e-mail' link from the control panel menu. Once you have
entered this section, you will see a screen similar to the one below.
The destination E-mail address
does not have to be in your domain!. Once you have finished press
the Create button to create the Alias.
Nobody Alias
It is possible to set up an Email Alias
that collects all emails that are not caught by other addresses on the
domain. This is done by creating an alias with an 'Alias ID' of 'nobody'.
This alias will collect all emails that are not recognized by any other
email address on the domain, and forward them to the destination.
A common use of the Nobody Alias is to
allow emails to anything@<your domain name>. This can be useful when
people emailing you may make spelling mistakes in the address, or so you
can receive from multiple address in one place.
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