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eMail Forwarding
Options
Most people today use eMail from some
online source such as gmail, yahoo, hotmail or smaller companies
that provide an online interface to their mail. Because of all
the free services and the size and reliability of them it does
not make sense for a small home based hosting company to reinvent
the wheel. Additionally people like portability and mail that
cannot be accessed from multiple computer, wireless devices ad
cell phones is quickly becoming a thing of the past.
So rather than managing email POP3 account
and trying to deal with all the spam and routing issues we offer
email forwarding.
eMail forwarding is the process of
redirecting email sent to your domain to an alternate outside
account. For example if you have an account myname@gmail.com and
you own mywebsite.com you could have all mail sent to myname@mywebsite.com
redirected into your gmail account.
This process lets you advertise names at
your domains but not have to access them from a separate mailbox
for each name. Just set the email address you wish to have them
forwarded to and they will be routed to that mailbox.
It is quite simple really, and you can
create up to 30 unique forwarding accounts that can be sent to
one box or 30 separate email boxes.
This is great if you decide to change your
mail provider because your new cell phone is not compatible with
the old one, you just login and change the forwarding addresses
of your websites email accounts to the new location. You wont
miss a beat, no dropped mail and nobody ever knows anything
changed.
This is also a great tool when you have
multiple people getting mail from a website domain. If one person
is on vacation o leaves, you can redirect the mail to another
account so anyone can manage the mail rather than losing out on
those customers.
This process has worked very well for us
for many years with no complaints but every now and then we have
the hardened old school business owners that want to use one
computer with outlook and download the mail on one terminal. That
is not a problem, you can still do that, however you must use an
outside mail provider for the pop account. There are services as
low as $5 a year or you can direct it to a local account on your
isp for Internet service. Companies like Godaddy will actually
provide a free eMail account with every domain registration.
We can set that up for you, you just need
to provide us with the MX Record for your isp that will host your
mail. Since the number of people that want that option can be
counted on one hand it does not make sense to make it part of the
hosting system. We can still work with you to provide those
services but we do not provide it directly.
For everyone else the eMail forwarding
works out great and gives you real time updates to your mail
routing though the website management console.
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