When you have a web hosting account and you create an e-mail address, you may consider the option to send and receive emails for granted, but in fact, that isn't always true. Sending email messages isn't always part of the hosting plans that companies offer and an SMTP service is needed to be able to do that. The acronym stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol and this is the software application that enables you to send out emails. If you work with an email program, it connects to the SMTP server. The latter then queries the DNS data of the domain name, that is a part of the receiving address to find out which email server manages its email messages. After some system data is interchanged, your SMTP server provides the e-mail to the remote IMAP or POP server and the email is finally delivered in the matching mailbox. An SMTP server is required if you are using some sort of contact form also, so if you work with a free hosting plan, for instance, it is very likely that you won't have the ability to use this type of form as many cost-free hosting service providers do not allow outgoing e-mail messages.

SMTP Server in Web Hosting

With every single web hosting plan we offer you, you are able to work with our SMTP server and send out e-mails through your preferred e-mail app, webmail or a script on your website. The service is provided with the plans by default, not like a paid upgrade or on demand, so you can make use of your email addresses once you create them through your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel. We have prepared comprehensive tutorials how one can create a mailbox in the most popular desktop and smart phone e-mail clients and in addition they include all SMTP settings that you'll require together with standard problems that you may experience in addition to their solutions. If you use an online contact page form on your web site, all that you should enter is the server name along with your e-mail address, so you can get the form working instantly.