If you use an email address with your own domain name and not a 3rd-party one, you’ll be able to use an email software app such as Apple Mail, Outlook or Thunderbird to access and administer your email messages. The benefit of using such apps is that you can also take advantage of other features, such as address books and calendars. There are two different email retrieval protocols that you can select from when you set up the application of your liking to access your email account – POP3 and IMAP. With the first one, all messages that are received will be downloaded onto your device – desktop or mobile, unless you decide to keep a copy on the mail server. With the second one, the email messages will be displayed locally at your end, but they will stay on the server at all times, so you can set up the email account on multiple devices and check the email messages from any place. You will also be able to view old email messages in case there is an issue with your Internet connection, which is an enormous advantage over a web-based service.

POP3 IMAP E-mail Accounts in Shared Web Hosting

Each shared web hosting package that we offer will allow you to create mailboxes with any domain name hosted under your account and to set them up on any device. During the setup process, you can select between the POP3 and the IMAP email protocols, as we offer support for both, so you can choose which one to make use of depending on your preference and the purpose of your account – you may choose to download all emails in case you have a personal account and to save the messages on the mail server – in case you’ve got a business account, for example. The Email Manager tool, which is part of our in-house developed Hepsia hosting Control Panel, enables you to download and run a small auto-configuration file, so as to set up a mailbox with an email software app – Apple Mail, Outlook or Thunderbird. You can even use your smartphone to view your email messages and we’ve got an elaborate tutorial on how to do this on an iPhone or an Android phone.