Setting up Email That Works for You.
While there are many may ways of setting up email, there are several settings that most common. On this page we will summarize the most common email accounts and walk you through setting each of them up
POP Accounts
A POP account is like a mail box. Any mail sent to it is held there until the owner retrieves it. POP accounts are the most basic email account you will have. All email sent to you will end up in a POP account that you have set up somewhere.
Most active Internet users have one or two POP accounts. The ISP that you buy access to the Internet from (AOL, Earthlink, Conpuserver, etc.) provide you with a POP account. You may want to use this for your personal mail.
Your DaySite Website also provies POP accounts as needed. The difference between the POP account that your ISP provides and the one that DaySite provides is the name. Your ISP provides an address with their domain on it:
you@isp.net
The DaySite POP account includes your domain name as part of your email address:
you@yourdomain.com
If you are in business, it is clearer and just looks better if your email address has you domain as part of the address.
To set up a POP account on your DaySite Hosted Website, just email Jon@DaySite.Net with:
- Your Domain Name
- The Email address you would like.
- A Password for this POP account
DaySite will set up your POP account and email set up instructions.
Alias Accounts
Unlike POP accounts, Alias email addresses do not store messages. They are not like a mail box. Instead, they simply forward email to a specified POP account.
Alias accounts are used to add clarity to a Website. Some common email Aliases are:
- info@yourdomain.com
- sales@yourdomain.com
- billing@yourdomain.com
Alias email addresses are set up on the server by the server administrator. To add an email alias to your DaySite Hosted Website, just email Jon@DaySite.Net with:
- Your Domain Name
- The Alias Email address you would like.
- A POP account to forward it to
Catch-All Alias
If you are the only recipient of email at your web site, then DaySite can set up a special kind of alias known as a 'catch-all'. Any name placed infront of your domain name will be sent to the POP account that you designate. Example: anyname@yourdomain.com or whatever@yourdomain.com will be sent to your email address.
The advantage is that you only have to set up and monitor one POP account, yet your POP receive mail sent to any name @ your web site. Even mysspeled names with get to you.
To have a catch-all set up for you web site, just email
Email Links
Email Links add a great deal of flexibility to Webpage design. When you click an email link, the viewers email program is opened, with the email address, and optionally other information pre-filled in. And the lable that you use for the link can say anything. For example if you want to have email sent to you@yourdomain.com, but want the link to say 'Click Here', you'd set it up like this:
<a href="mailto:you@yourdomain.com">CLICK HERE</a>
To see what it does: CLICK HERE
Now One Last Trick: Your email link can also add other information to the email fields. The most common one is the Subject line. For example: Say you want to have the word 'Unsubscribe' automatically added to the Subject line of an email. To do this edit the above example as follows:
<a
href="mailto:you@yourdomain.com?subject=Unsubscribe">
Unsubscribe
</a>
On your page the above code would look like this: Unsubscribe When you click this link, note that the word 'Unsubscribe' has been added to the email subject line. Additional information can be added as well.
