There are lots of web-based email providers that you can resort to, but using an email account with your own domain will provide you with more credibility if you have a business, for example, not to mention that with web-based email services there are limits on the size of the attachments that you can send or receive. If you use an email service that supports the POP3 and IMAP email protocols, you will not experience such problems and you’ll be able to use any program on your computer to check your mailboxes, including Outlook, Apple Mail or Thunderbird. You can even set up a mailbox on your phone. The difference between the two protocols is that with IMAP, an email message is displayed locally at your end, but remains on the email server, whereas with POP3, the message is downloaded to your computer, unless you configure the program in such a way as to save a copy on the server.
POP3 IMAP E-mail Accounts in Web Hosting
Each and every web hosting plan that we offer will allow you to create email accounts with any domain hosted under your account and to set them up on any device. During the setup procedure, you can pick between the IMAP and the POP3 email retrieval protocols, as we offer support for both, so you can choose which one to use depending on your preferences and the purpose of the account – you may choose to download all email messages in case you’ve got a personal account and to leave the messages on the email server – in case you have a business account, for instance. The Email Manager tool, which is built into our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel, permits you to download and run a small-sized auto-config file, so as to set up a mailbox with an email software program – Apple Mail, Outlook or Thunderbird. You can even use your smartphone to view your emails and we have an in-depth tutorial on how to carry out this on an iPhone or an Android phone.