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Getting the most out of your web mail account
Email is the lifeline of any online
business, offering a cost effective method of communication over the Internet.
If you have an online presence and/or business it is essential that you
have your own mail server - a mail server is a site on the web where you
can have your own personal mail box. With a mail server you
can send and receive mail to just about anyone on the Internet. However
there is a lot more to having a mail account then just sending and receiving
mail, such as auto-responders, forwarders, aliases, mailing lists and
catch all mailboxes.
Aliases Make sure that you can set
up as many aliases as you like with your ISP. An alias is another name
for an email address or a number of addresses. Many ISP allow you to have
multiple aliases such as sales@yourdomain.com and support@yourdomain.com.
Auto-responders An auto-responder is
an automatically generated email message that provides static information
to the recipient. For example, if an email is sent to one of your email
addresses an email will be sent automatically to the sender of the email.
Forwarders Make sure you check with
your ISP that you can set up forwarders. Forwarding is where different
aliases can be forwarded to one or more email addresses. For example,
if you have the email address info@yourdomain.com, you can set up a forwarder
so that all emails sent to info@yourdomain.com are
forwarded to your other email address sales@yourdomain.com.
Catch-all A catch-all mailbox basically
catches all emails with typos, incorrect names etc, but the email has
the domain name in the email address spelt correctly (e.g. typo@yourdomain.com).
For example, you can set up an alias such as mailmanager@yourdomain.com
and all emails with typos are redirected to this mailbox.
Mailing Lists A mailing list is a system
for distributing email messages to many people at once. Mailing lists
are a good tool to use if you have a brochure, catalog or newsletter and
you want to distribute to lots of people. ISP should either have some
sort of Mailing list program installed or have a mailing list included
on their mail server.
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