There are plenty of web-based mail service providers that you can use, but using an email account with your own personal domain name will provide you with more credibility if you have a business, for instance, not to mention that with web-based services there are limitations on the maximum size of the attachments that you can receive or send. If you use an email service that supports the IMAP and POP3 email protocols, you won’t face such problems and you will be able to use any software program on your computer to access your emails, including Thunderbird, Apple Mail or Outlook. You can even set up a mailbox on your smartphone. The difference between the two email protocols is that with IMAP, an email message is displayed at your end, but remains on the mail server, while with POP3, the message is downloaded on your computer, unless you set up the program in such a way as to keep a copy on the server.

POP3 IMAP E-mail Accounts in Web Hosting

Each and every web hosting package that we offer will enable you to create email accounts with any domain name hosted under your account and to set them up on any device. During the setup process, you can select between the POP3 and the IMAP email delivery protocols, as we offer support for both, so you can choose which one to make use of in accordance with your preferences and the purpose of your account – you may decide to download all email messages if you have a personal account and to keep the messages on the server – if you’ve got a business account, for instance. The Email Manager, which is part of our custom-developed Hepsia hosting Control Panel, allows you to download and run a small auto-configuration file, so as to set up an email account with an email program – Thunderbird, Apple Mail or Outlook. You can even use your phone to view your emails and we have included an exhaustive tutorial on how to do this on an iPhone or an Android phone.