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What's a POP?
Ok, you've just signed on with a web host, and they've told you you have 500 POP accounts. So now, you're thinking, great, only what's a POP? Don't worry, once again, POP stands for "Post Office Protocal". POP accounts are mail boxes that reside on your host's web servers. They serve as a convenient way to manage messages sent to your domain name (whatever.com). You will need to set up at least one POP account in order to receive mail to your domain name, and you may set up a mailbox (POP account) for each person associated with your domain and mail will be directed to them. For example, the person handling sales, membership, shipping, etc. Why You May Not Need All Those POPs Basically, POPs are useful if you have several people at different locations who are involved with your company, and don't have easy access to e-mail on their own. If you or your office, etc are going to be the only one recieving the e-mails, YOU DO NOT NEED TO SET UP MULTIPLE POP ACCOUNTS. Most web hosts allow you to set up the default POP account to FORWARD ANYTHING with your domain to one place. So you can set up your POP to forward any incoming mail to you; sales@yourdomain.com, membership@yourdomain.com, info@yourdomain.com, they will all come either directly your computer, or you can have everything forwarded to another e-mail account you may already have, such as with AOL, MSN, EarthLink, etc.
Restrictive ISPs
Many major Internet Service Providers (ISPs) do not allow you to set up your own POP if you use them to connect to the Interent. Instead, they restrict you to use their e-mail which resides on their server, which you have to log onto the Internet to access. So here, you would set up one POP account on your host server which forwards everything to you@aol.com, etc.
Even if you have other people who need to receive certain mail, it may be more convenient to simply forward the mail directly to their current e-mail address rather than setting up multiple POPs.
If however, you are not using a restrictive ISP, you will need to set your computer up for a POP account to receive mail from whatever@yourdomain.com. For more inforation on how to do this, Contact |
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