Frequently Asked Questions

How do I get an email account?
You can get a free email account from a variety of community sites including MSN.com and Yahoo.com. There are dedicated and supported email accounts as well from companies like Juno.com. However if you are hosting a web site, or soon will be, you can get an email account with the purchase of your hosting package or domain name. This allows you to have the added freedom of picking your domain name at the end of the email address.

For the most part, email is email - however if you are looking for professionalism, an email address with yourname@your-domain.com looks more impressive than joexample1991@hotmail.com. Email accounts that you purchase individually can run you as little as $9 per year, as you can see they are rather economical - yet powerful communication tools.

What do I need to send or receive email?
Most all email service companies allow you access to webmail, which is an email client that you access by going to the provider's web address and entering your user name and password. This is an excellent feature to use, as your email can follow you to any computer you decide to connect to the internet on. your emails are stored on the email server, and can typically be archived.

The other method for accessing your email is through an installable email client such as Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Outlook Express and Mozilla Thunderbird. These applications may come pre-installed on your personal computer - and you need only connect the client to your email server once - for it to download and keep a local copy of your correspondence for you.

What is POP Email?
Post Office Protocol or POP is the standardized method for sending and receiving email. Most email providers, including free services and web applications permit you to connect through POP and gain access to your emails. POP is used when you have a local copy of an email client to access email.

What is SMTP Email?
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, or SMTP is also a standardized method of sending emails. Generally you will find two settings in your email client. Under the setting for servers, you will see a text dialog box for incoming and outgoing mail servers. usually you will have a POP server address for incoming and an SMTP address for outgoing.