Email

Setting Up Your Email

You will need a mail server (an account with a email hosting provider), and you will need to point your domain's MX records to direct email to that mail server.

Setting Up Google Apps for Email Hosting

This article includes specific step-by-step instructions and settings.

Third Party Email Hosting

In order for email to be directed to a third party mail server, the domain name needs to have specific settings that point the Email portion of the domain traffic to the alternative third party ...

Email setup for Apple Mail

The following instructions are general. Your version of Apple Mail may be slightly different, so keep your mind open to the general principles.
1. Open Mail.
2. Choose Preferences f ...

Email setup for Outlook

The following instructions are general. Your version of Outlook may be slightly different, so keep your mind open to the general principles.
1. In Microsoft Outlook, select Tools > ...

Free Third Party SPAM Filtering

Companies like Google Mail, Yahoo!, and Hotmail, handle mail for a living. So it's no surprise that they have better than average SPAM filters. So if you find that our Industry standard SPAM filter ...

Mailbox Settings

When your hosting account was first created, the administrator was given information to access the hosting control panel, to control Email Mailboxes, etc. Your hosting adminstrator can enable admin ...

Maximum Email Attachment Size

Please keep in mind that email is not an ideal file transfer method. Emails with large attachments consume unnecessary amounts of mail server resources. There are better ways to transfer large ...

Setting up folders on your IMAP email account

To set up folders for your IMAP account:
1. Log in to your webmail account via Horde (http://webmail.mydomain.com - replace mydomain.com with your actual domain name).
2. Click on O ...

SPAM

SPAM is the bane of civilized man. We understand, from personal experience, how annoying it is and we say with all sincerity, "we feel your pain." And we're very sorry for the trouble it causes you....

SPAM From Emails on Your Domain

If you receive SPAM emails that look they are coming from your own email account, or from other people with email accounts on your same domain, they are not really coming from those people's ...

Using Gmail as your Universal Email Account

1. Redirect your Email to Gmail
Set your website email account to Redirect messages to your Gmail Account.
Log into the mail control panel at: http://www.gutensite.com/hosting User ...

Vital Email Information for Switching a Domain

All email sent to mailboxes at your domain (e.g. joe@ mydomain.com), is routed to the mail server for that domain. Usually this is the same server that hosts your website, although sometime ...

Webmail

We recommend that people setup their own dedicated mail programs to check their email, via POP (download to local computer) or IMAP (read mail from server, good if you have several different ...

What is the difference between POP and IMAP mail?

POP
A POP connection will cause your computer's mail program to download all your email, from the mail server and store the messages and the attachments on your computer. This is useful if yo ...

Why can't I receive emails?

Most likely, your mailbox is full. So when people try to send emails, the server sends them a message back saying that it can't receive anymore emails because your mailbox is full. If you connect ...

Why Can't I Send Emails?

Let's throw some acronyms around, just for fun. Some ISPs (Internet Service Providers) recommend that their clients use the Outgoing SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) server of the ISP. This is ...