In case you use an email account with your own domain and not a 3rd-party one, you will be able to use an email application such as Apple Mail, Outlook or Thunderbird to check and administer your mailboxes. The benefit of using such applications is that you can also take advantage of other features, such as calendars and address books. There are two different email retrieval protocols that you can select from when you configure the app of your liking to access your email account – POP3 and IMAP. With the first protocol, all messages that are received will be downloaded to your device – desktop or mobile, unless you opt to keep a copy on the email server. With the second protocol, the messages will be displayed 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 view the messages from any location. You will also be able to check old emails if there is a predicament with your Internet service, which is an enormous advantage over web-based services.
POP3 IMAP E-mail Accounts in Shared Hosting
If you get a Linux shared hosting from us, you’ll be able to create email accounts with any domain name hosted under your account and to set them up with any email software application. During the process, you can pick POP3 or IMAP as we offer support for both protocols, so it will depend on you if all emails will be downloaded locally at your end or if they will remain on the mail server. With us, you can even set up a mailbox on your smartphone regardless of its OS and we have added exhaustive tutorials on how to do that. To save yourself time, you can also download and run our auto-configuration files to set up an email account in Apple Mail, Thunderbird or Outlook automatically. With our shared hosting plans, you can pick a preferred device and application to access your email messages.