There’re plenty of web-based email service providers that you can resort to, but using a mailbox with your own personal domain will grant you more credibility if you are running a business, for example, not to mention that with web-based services there are restrictions on the maximum size of the attachments that you can send or receive. In case you use an email service that supports the IMAP and POP3 email protocols, you won’t have such problems and you will be able to use any software program on your PC to check your mails, including Thunderbird, Outlook or Apple Mail. You can even set up a mailbox on your smartphone. The difference between the two protocols is that with IMAP, an email message is displayed at your end, but remains on the mail server, whereas with POP3, the message is downloaded to your computer, unless you set up the program in such a way as to leave a copy on the server.
POP3 IMAP E-mail Accounts in Hosting
If you order a Linux hosting through us, you will be able to create email accounts with any domain name hosted in your account and to set them up with any email application. During the setup procedure, you can select POP3 or IMAP as we offer support for both email delivery protocols, so it will depend on you if all email messages will be downloaded at your end or if they will stay on the email server. With our company, you can even set up an email account on your phone irrespective of its OS and we’ve got elaborate tutorials on how to perform that. To spare yourself time, you can also download and run our auto-config files to set up an email account in Thunderbird, Apple Mail or Outlook automatically. With our hosting plans, you can select a preferred device and app to examine your emails.