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What
is POP3 email?
POP3 (Post Office Protocol 3) email stores
your email on the server to be downloaded locally by your email
program.
How do I configure my email
application for POP3 email?
For your incoming server use:
server name: yourdomain.com
server type: POP3 server
username: your-username
password: your-password
For your outgoing server use yourdomain.com
Do you offer a webmail option that I
can use to access my email via a web browser?
You can use the following url to access your local email via
the IMP webmail interface:
http://webmail.yourdomain.com
(replace "yourdomain.com" with your actual domain
name).
IMP Webmail is really useful if you need to access your email
while traveling or if you do not have access to your home/work
comupter, but it should not be considered a replacement for a
standard email program that downloads email to your computer.
The storage space that you have on the server is limited (the
amount depends on your hosting plan), so you want to make sure
that you periodically download or delete your email from the
server as well as delete old sent email from your
"sent-mail" folder.
PLEASE NOTE: IMP Webmail can only
be used to read email that is stored on the server through a
POP3 account,
not email that is redirected to another address. IMP Webmail is
not as as fully featured as a standard email program that
downloads email locally to an email program such as Outlook or
Eudora. We do not offer any specific support for this program
and it is offered free of charge, but you use it a your own
risk. Please refer to the help screens that are integrated into
IMP for more information on how to use the program
The IMP Webmail program uses IMAP4 which accesses your
email directly in your mailbox instead of downloading it as POP3
email. Therefore it is really important that you occassionally
download or delete email that is being stored in your mailbox as
well as delete old sent email from your "sent-mail"
folder or else your mailbox will fill up. If the total storage
space used on of all of the mailboxes associated with your
domain exceeds the email storage quota that is associated with
your hosting plan, then any new email sent to your domain's
email accounts will bounce until you free up some space by
deleting/downloading old mail (including deleting sent mail).
If you have problems using IMP or do not like how it works,
you might want to consider using a standard email program that
downloads your POP3 email or reads it as IMAP4 on the server.
PLEASE NOTE: IMP Webmail is not
available with subdomains, ie name.yourdomain.com
Is there a
size limit on incoming email? I'm having trouble receiving large
attachments..
Yes, for security and performance reasons there is a 2MB
limit on all email that is sent through our servers. A better
way to deliver large files via the internet is to upload them to
a website or FTP site. Another thing to try is to have the
sender first compress the file using a .zip or .sit archive.
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