POP Mailboxes
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 can now use your own 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.
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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 e-mail 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>@mail.rapidsite.net
SMTP Server: smtp.yourdomain.com
Substitute your account userid above. Your master
POP account password will be the same as your
web account password.
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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.
@yourdomain User ID Password
For this example, the following settings would
be used to access the "webmaster" POP
account:
POP Account: yourdomain.com
SMTP Server: smtp.yourdomain.com
*** 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.
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Configuring a POP account for an Additional
Domain Name (Domain Pointer)
If you want all e-mail addressed to your additional
domain (anything@additionaldomain.com) to be held
in a POP account, enter the additional domain
name (xyz.com in this example) in the column titled,
"@yourdomain". Be sure to enter a unique
id and password for the new POP account as illustrated
below.
@yourdomain User ID Password
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*Each of our plans includes a different number
of free POP mailboxes. Additional POP mailboxes
are available at an additional fee per mailbox.
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