Your
Default Email Account
Your
default email account acts as your Catch All email account. Any email messages
sent to an account on your domain that does not exist will automatically
go to this address. For Example, if your master username is "john" your
default address will be john@yourdomain.com. Now lets assume that someone
sends an email to mary@yourdomain.com and you have not yet created an email
account for mary, that particular message will arrive at your default address
of john@yourdomain.com.
To
change your default email account, click on Default Address
and type in the new address. You will need to type the entire address:
yourname@yourdomain.com.
Then
click Change. Make sure you are using an account that actually exists.
If the account does not exist, you need to set it up using the Add/Remove
Accounts Feature.
Adding
and Removing Email Accounts
To
add a new Email account:
Click
on Add/Remove Accounts
Click
on Add Account. The following screen will appear:
Type
the username you want in the Email box and the password you choose for
this account in the Password box.
Click
Create
and your new account will be activated.
In
order to receive mail sent to this address, you must set up the new account
in the program you use for email. For example, if you access your email
through your browser, you need to add this account to your browser's email
program. Please refer to the Configuring Email Software menu of
our Web
Hosting Support section for instructions on how to configure different
email clients.
To
Remove an Email Account:
Click
on Delete to the right of the account that you would like to remove.
Autoresponders
Autoresponders
will automatically send an email for you. Autoresponders are typically
used to send information in response to a visitor's request. For example,
visitor's could click on a link that says "Click Here to Receive Special
Report." When the visitor clicks on the link, their email program will
open a new message addressed to your autoresponder. When they send the
email, your autoresponder will reply by automatically sending your Special
Report to the visitor. This feature is also useful when you know you will
not be reading or responding to incoming email massages for a period of
time. To create an autoresponder you must first create an email account.
To
add an autoresponder:
Click
on Autoresponders
Click
on Add AutoResponders. The following screen will appear:
In
the Email box, type the email name you choose for your Autoresponder. This
will be the email address that visitor's click on to access the Autoresponder.
If you think you may set up more than one Autoresponder, it is helpful
to choose a username that is descriptive. For example, reportx. The mailto
link you will place on your site will be reportx@yourdomain.com. Fill in
the From and Subject boxes, then place the information you want to send
in the Body area. You can't use html tags in an Autoresponder. They will
only accept plain text.
Click
Create
and your new Autoresponder will be activated.
To
delete an autoresponder:
Click
on Delete to the right of the autoresponder that you would like
to delete.
Email
Forwarding:
You
can have any or all email addressed to your domain account forwarded to
an outside email account or to a different email address within your domain.
To
add an email forwarder:
Click
on Forwarders
Click
on Add Forwarder. The following screen will appear:
Type
the account name of the address you want mail forwarded from in the first
window, and the complete email address you want the mail forwarded to in
the second window.
Click
on Add Forward and your new Forwarder will be activated.
Remember,
you can forward mail to any address, inside or outside of your domain.
For example: youremail@aol.com or yourmail@yourdomain.com. Be careful
when forwarding email accounts inside your domain. You might inadvertently
create an indefinite loop that can cause all email accounts to stop working
on your domain.
NOTE:
You do not have to create an email account to setup a forwarder. For example,
if you want to forward all email messages going to john@yourdomain.com,
do not create a an email account for john@yourdomain.com. When you setup
the forwarder the server will know what to do. If there is an email account
created for any forwarder, that forwarder will not function.
To
delete an email forwarder:
Click
on Delete to the right of the forwarder that you would like to delete.
Blocking
Email Messages
You
can block unwanted email according to email address, subject, header, recipient,
or even phrases inside the body of the message.
To
block unwanted email:
Click
on Block an Email
Click
on Add Filter. The following screen will appear:
Use
the drop down menus to choose what you want blocked. For example, you might
want to filter out pornographic email messages. You could choose Subject,
Body or Any Header from the first drop down menu, and Contains from the
second drop down menu. Then type a phrase or word that frequently appears
in the header or body of email you receive that promotes pornographic content,
For example "girls." To block email from a specific source, just choose
From
in the first drop down menu, then Equals from the second menu. Type
in the person's email address in the box and click Activate.
To
remove an email block/filter:
Click
on Delete to the right of the filter that you would like to delete.
About
Email Aliases
You
never have to create email aliases. Your default email account is setup
as a "Catch All" account, meaning that any email coming to anything@yourdomain.com
is delivered to your default account.
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