There are plenty of web-based email service providers that you can use, but having an email with your own domain will grant you more credibility if you have a company, for instance, not to mention that with web-based email services there are limitations on the size of the attachments that you can receive or send. In case you use an email service that offers support for the IMAP and POP3 protocols, you won’t stumble upon such problems and you will be able to use any program on your PC to check your email messages, including Apple Mail, Outlook or Thunderbird. You can even set up an email account on your smartphone. The difference between the two protocols is that with IMAP, an email message is displayed locally at your end, but remains on the email server, whereas with POP3, the message is downloaded onto your PC, unless you set up the program in such a way as to save a copy on the server.
POP3 IMAP E-mail Accounts in Shared Hosting
Each and every shared hosting plan that we offer will enable you to create email accounts with any domain hosted in your account and to set them up on any device. During the setup process, you can pick between the POP3 and the IMAP protocols, as we support both, so you can decide which one to make use of based on your preference and the purpose of the email account – you may want to download all emails if you have a personal account and to store the messages on the mail server – in case you’ve got a business account, for example. The Email Manager, which is included in our custom Hepsia Control Panel, allows you to download and run a small auto-config file, so as to set up an email account with an email application – Apple Mail, Thunderbird or Outlook. You can use even your mobile phone to check your email messages and we have added an in-depth tutorial on how to perform this on an iPhone or an Android phone.