The difference between private pop
mail accounts, and simply using the "Catch-All" method:
There are two kinds of email address's you can use. Lets start
with the "catch all" method:
With the catch all method, you don't have to worry
about setting up individual pop mail accounts. Simply set your
email client to your "default" email address (displayed in
your control panel), and "all" email sent to
anything@yourdomain.com
will land in this box, or whatever you've set your default
address to. This is an easy way to catch all email sent to
your domain.
In your Email client, feel free to
configure multiple outgoing accounts at
many-different-names@youdomain.com.
It really doesn't matter, as
everything@yourdomain.com
will land in the default account. Therefore, you would
configure all of your email accounts with the "same" Username
and Password as your "Default domain Email Account."
EXAMPLE: Let's say you want to receive
mail from
dianne@power2003.com
and
mark@yourdomain.com.
If both of these addresses are the ones you'll be using, then
the only thing that changes is the address - the Username and
Password is "always" the same.
The POP Email Account Method:
In this case, you configure a "private"
pop email account for one or many users who will be receiving
and sending email from your domain. Once an email address is
configured as a pop mail account, it operates privately and
independently from your main standard/default mail system. Any
mail sent to a private pop mail account "can only be received"
by logging into that account with the separate username and
password you have assigned it.
Your default "catch all" account will
not intercept any mail being sent to a pop mail account, which
is what makes it 'private'. Pop 3 accounts are useful if there
are a number of people (for example employees) who would each
need a private email account.
This way, everyone at your company can utilize private email.
The default email address plays a slightly different role in
this case: If a sender uses the 'wrong' Email name or syntax,
then that message would bounce to your "default catch all"
account, and at which time, you could probably figure our who
the sender was trying to contact. They do however, have to at
least send it to your correct domain name, (i'e',
oops@youdomain.com). This
would end up in your "default" mailbox.
How to configure a pop mail account:
1. Login to your control panel (http://www.your-domain.com/cpanel/)
2. Select "Add/Remove POP Email Accounts"
3. Select "Add Account"
4. Enter an email name & Password
5. Select "Create"
Just enter a name, (the @yourdomain part is added
automatically)
That's it, done! Your private POP 3
Email Account is now ready for use. If you're a little lost on
how to manually configure an email account into your mail
reader, please see the detailed tutorials on how to configure
Outlook and Netscape mail readers.
SPECIAL NOTE!
If you've enabled Sub-Domains, you'll
observe a duplicate email account appearing, which corresponds
to each sub-domain you've added. Please ignore these
duplicate addresses for the time being. This is a new feature
under development and will soon enable the ability to
configure email accounts for your sub-domains. For example, if
you configured support.yourdomain.com, then you'll be able to
use the address
mailto:tom@support.power2003.com.
For the time being, please configure
email address's that correspond to your "regular"
domain, and just ignore the sub-domain duplicates. ALSO: Any
duplicate sub-domain email address's you see appearing in your
pop mail setup configuration "DO NOT" count towards your
allocated number of pop mail boxes we've provided. In short,
just ignore them for now!