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using email addresses
If you have your own domain name on a suitable host you can be emailed at xxx@you.com rather than xxx@hotmail.com or xxx@yahoo.com. You will need to configure your email program to receive mail.
email forwarding
Some domain name companies offer free email forwarding which means you can redirect email addressed to xxx@you.com to a free email address like xxx@hotmail.com without having a website for the you.com name.
Some of the other email features you might be offered in a hosting package are:
- POP3
- POP3 is a standard form of email box. If you have more than one box you can have email addresses for different people with their own passwords (eg him@you.com and her@you.com). There will probably also be a catch-all box which will get email for anything@you.com.
- webmail
- Webmail allows you to access your email from any computer with an internet connection. Your emails are kept on the host's server unless you read and delete them. You can log on to a webmail control panel with your username and password and read, write and send email.
- virus scanning/spam filtering
- These services are no substitute for using robust systems on your own computer.
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