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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,  is here to help.
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 Comcast, MSN, Yahoo, 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.
The one major disadvantage of forwarding e-mail is that if you want to reply to the message, it will not come from your company's domanin name, but from the domain it was forwarded to. So for example if a message was sent to patrice@tricenet.net and forwarded to patrice@comcast.net, any reply will come from patrice@comcast.net.
The way to have all your mail come from your domain, is to set up POP accounts FOR your domain on your actual computer. Mayn hosts have made this once complicated proceedure relatively easy. If you are a TriceNet customer, setting up a POP account on your computer is included with your Web site design package.
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