IMPORTANT general information on email
To use email optimally with your domain name, we can give you a few general pointers:
POP3 server (incoming email):If you receive email from your dial-in provider (like AOL) you would need to put the mail server name supplied to you from your provider, but if you wish to use your domain name and thus use our servers, you need to but something like your-domain.com
SMTP server (outgoing email): This is the server that delivers your email to the final recepient. We offer to handle this for you, but it would be more efficient to use the SMTP server at your internet provider. This is because when using our server you need to go through the internet whereas you are directly connected to your provider’s server. This has no influence on the from address on your emails, see the next section.
If you wish to use our SMTP mail servers you need to setup your email program to use the same username and password on SMTP as on POP3. Couple of guides using the 2 must popular email programs you could find in "Related Articles".
From address: The from address you display to the outside world have NO connection with the POP3 email account where you receive your email, nor has it any connection to what SMTP server you use to send your emails, as mentioned above..
It is only set by the setup of your email client program. If your email settings are set to, as an example, forward all mail for @your-domain.com to you@home.com, then you could easily set you@your-domain.com as from address, and send your email via the SMTP server smtp.dial-isp.com, and receive your emails from mail.home.com
SPAM and Virus is actually misusing this very ‘feature’ of the mail protocols to send you lots of unwanted emails with invalid from address’s, and even in some cases they use a from address using your domains and email address. There is currently no solution to this problem, but we feel that a solution is very eminent.
POP3 username: Your POP3 username (if you use POP3 accounts under your virtual server) must be written as username%your-domain.com because the server is using a so called virtual IP address.