In case you use an email account with your very own personal domain name instead of a third-party one, you’ll be able to make use of an email software app such as Apple Mail, Thunderbird or Outlook to access and manage your email accounts. The advantage of using such applications is that they also offer other features, such as calendars and address books. There are two email retrieval protocols that you can select from when you configure the application of your choice to access your mailbox – POP3 and IMAP. With the first protocol, all email messages that are received will be downloaded on your device – desktop or mobile, unless you choose to leave a copy on the email server. With the second one, the email messages will be displayed locally at your end, but they will stay on the server at all times, so you can set up the email account on multiple devices and see the messages from any place. You will also be able to see old email messages in case there is a predicament with your Internet connectivity, which is a big advantage over web-based services.
POP3 IMAP E-mail Accounts in Shared Hosting
You will be able to use any email client and any device to view your emails if you get any of our Linux shared hosting packages. Our email servers support both email retrieval protocols (POP3 and IMAP), so you can choose the one that corresponds to your requirements – you can download all email messages on your PC or you can leave the messages on the server if you’ve got a company and different employees need to access them, for instance. You can even download an auto-config file for a particular email account for any of the three most widely used desktop clients – Apple Mail, Thunderbird and Outlook. You will only have to run the file on your PC and that email account will be set up automatically. In case you would like to use your smartphone, we have included in-depth tutorials on how to set up an email account on an Android- or an iOS-powered mobile device.