Accessing Your Email

One E-mail account is set up with your web site, for example if you have a domain name " yourdomain.com" your email would look something like this:
yourdomain@yourdomain.com
We can also set up your domain name email account to be the default email, in other words, anything addressed to your domain name will be put in your email "box"   i.e. any name in front of the "@" sign will be delivered to you.

Although your account exists on our server, you won't be able to receive email at yourname@yourdomain.com until your domain name has been activated in the domain name servers.

We are also running anti-spam software.
Before you can send any email you must receive or at least check to see if you have any new messages before you can send any email through the mail server.

Your default email address is yourdomain@yourdomain.com, and that's where all your email will be sent to, unless other configurations take priority (such as autoresponders and redirects).

You may use any email program to "get or send"  your email.
Below is how to set up a few different email programs

Eudora
After Eudora has been installed, it must be configured to point to your server.
Here are the steps you need to perform to set up Eudora:
1) Install and start up the Eudora program
2) Select "options" from the "Tools" menu
3) Select the "Getting Started" tab, then under Real Name, enter your Real Name
4) Under "POP Account" put yourdomain@yourdomain.com
5) Leave Return Address blank unless you want people to send return email to you at a different email account
6) If you use the Macintosh version, the radio button for TCP/IP connection should be highlighted
7) Click the "Personal Information" tab (also only for the Macintosh version)
8) Under POP account put yourdomain@yourdomain.com again
9) Fill out the "Real Name" and "Return Address" as you did before
10) Click the "Hosts" tab then enter yourdomain@yourdomain.com again under POP Account, and put yourdomain.com under SMTP Server.
11) Go to the "Checking Mail" tab and make sure "Save Password" is checked.

Many of the configuration areas will be filled in when you go to them, for instance it will usually fill in the POP account info where ever it needs it after you enter it the first time. Now, when you select "Check Mail" under the File menu, a window will pop up asking for your password. Enter in your password then click on the proceed button and Eudora will check to see if you have email. You can now send a test email message to yourself and then check to see if it gets returned to you. If you checked "Save Password" as in step 11, Eudora will not prompt you again for your password after the first time. If multiple users have access to your computer, and you don't want them to have access to your email account, make sure "Save Password" is unchecked.

Microsoft® Outlook Express® 5.0
1) Launch Outlook Express from your desktop or Start menu.
2) If this is the first time opening Outlook Express, you may be prompted with a series of questions. Select No or Cancel so that you may open the Outlook Express interface.
3) Click on Tools then Accounts.
4) Click on the Mail tab.
5) Click on Add then choose Mail.
6) Enter a Display Name. This is the name others will see when they receive a message from you. It is common to use your full name such as Dave Smith or a title such as Officer Smith or company name.
7) Enter your account E-mail address. By default your email address takes the form of: username@mydomain.com.
8) Leave the incoming mail server as POP3. Enter an Incoming and Outgoing mail server. Again, because your mail server acts as both an incoming and outgoing mail server, you can enter "mydomain.com" (where mydomain is the name of your account) in both locations:
9) Enter your Account name and Password. This is the same as your username and password for your account.
10) You will receive a confirmation that the account is setup. Click Finish.
11) You will now see your new email account listed under the Mail tab of Internet Accounts.
12) To ensure this email account is using your dial-up connection to the Internet, click on the Properties button to the right of your account then select the Connection tab:
13) If not already set, point the below drop-down menu to your Internet connection, then click OK. Click on Close to close out of Internet account properties.
14) You are now ready to start sending and receiving email using an email client program connected to your web account.

Mail program samples
The sample assumes a domain name of bob.com

Microsoft internet mail
  Full name = Bob
  Email = bob@bob.com
  Internet Mail server = bob.com
  Account = bob
  Pass = xxxxxx
  Smtp = bob.com
  From = anything@bob.com

Netscape
  Your Name = bob
  Email Address = bob@bob.com
  Reply to = anything@bob.com
  Mail Server user name = bob
  Outgoing Smtp = bob.com
  Incoming = bob.com

If you would like additional POP email accounts, ask us and we'll set it up for you. To check numerous POP accounts, read the manual or help files that come with your email client software for configuration.

We also have a online Browser based email client for checking your email right through your browser.

You can access Open Web Mail from any of your domains simply by browsing to http//yourdomain.com/openwebmail