POP3 Boxes and E-Mail Configurations:

We provide every domain with a default POP3 box. (POP3 means Post Office Protocol 3) It is named userid@yourdomain.com (For example: toyota@toyota.com) This POP3 box cannot be renamed.

You may set up the free POPs yourself, using PlusMail. (see docs).

Since the POP3 uses a login entry, and each Linux/Unix server cannot have duplicate login names, we suggest that you do not request popular names that are already taken, such as sales, info, webmaster or support. You could request something like webmaster5 and place an entry in the .redirect file so that all incoming mail to webmaster would go to the webmaster5 POP3 box. There is no guarantee that the POP name you desire is available and many people have already specified their names, i.e, John, Bob, Cathy, etc.

We provide three additional POP3 email only boxes for no cost to all accounts. Some accounts receive more. No telnet / shell access is provided with these. Above and beyond that, the cost per additional POP3 box is a one time setup fee of $7.50/each. After you have used up your free ones, please request the at-cost ones by sending an email request.

You can check the mail in the default POP3 box by logging in to your site by telnet or by using an email program, i.e., Microsoft Outlook Express, Eudora, etc.

NOTE: an entry in the .redirect will override any POP3 box, so make sure that you don't have an entry in the .redirect if you have a POP3 box by the same name.

The configuration settings for your email program should be set as follows:

Assume your domain is fred.com

SMTP = fred.com

POP = fred@fred.com

FROM = anyname@fred.com

PASSWD = the same used for FTP

How a mail program like Eudora works:

Eudora connects to the mail server over the Winsock. Mail may be composed and read offline, but make sure that Winsock is running before attempting to send or receive mail. This means you would need to sign on to AOL or your ISP, so that you can "use" their internet connections.

For Eudora 4.x setup: After installation, it must be configured to point to the mail server. To do this, start Eudora and use this info:

- Your return address (to use our SMTP servers) must include an address located @domain-hosted-with-us.com

- Your login name: domain - no extension (example: toyota for toyota.com)

- Your mail account password: is whatever your main FTP/Telnet/POP login password currently is (which is changeable by you) - or in the case of an added POP that we set up for you, it is the password for that POP (which is not changeable by you).

- Your incoming server name: your-domain-name.com

- The protocol is POP3

-Your SMTP server name: is your-domain-name.com

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For Eudora 3.x: After installation, it must be configured to point to the mail server. To do this, start Eudora and select "TOOLS" from the menu bar. Then select "OPTIONS." Most of the options are self explanatory.

•Fill in yourdomain.com for SMTP. Leave PH and Finger blank.

•Fill in yourdomain@yourdomain.com for your POP account.

•Under advanced network features, select 90 seconds for your network timeout.

•The option save password should be checked.

•The authentication style should be password option.

•Under connection method, do not check the offline option.

**Eudora "Light" is freeware offered by Qualcomm and can be downloaded over the net. Eudora "Pro" must be purchased. They both run under Windows.

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Using MS Outlook Express:

Open TOOLS to ACCOUNTS to ADD to MAIL.

Enter: YOUR NAME as you want it to appear on outgoing messages.

Enter: E:MAIL ADDRESS where you want people to send mail to you.

Go to: EMAIL SERVER NAMES.

Choose "My incoming server is a POP3."

Enter: INCOMING POP3 NAME: yourdomain.com

Enter: OUTGOING: yourdomain.com

LOG ON USING: Pop Account Name ENTER YOUR USERID or POP BOX NAME.

Enter: password

Choose friendly name for this account = however you wish to remember it by.

CHOOSE connection type: for those of you with AOL, Earthlink, GTE, etc CHOOSE "I will establish my internet connection manually."

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To use telnet and its mail program:

The commands you are told to type in this section assume you have logged on to the server with telnet or rlogin.

READING: Type mail to see if you have any mail. If you have any mail hit enter multiple times and all your messages will be displayed.

SENDING: Type mail -s "juice" support@webtimetools.com<juice.msg to send the message juice.msg with the subject "juice" to support@webtimetools.com.

Type

mail -s "juice" support@webtimetools.com

juice is good

to send the message "juice is good" with the subject "juice" to support@webtimetools.com

Type

mail support@webtimetools.com

juice is good

to send the message juice is good with no subject to support@webtimetools.com

Use telnet and PINE for mail management:

Type pine to enter a more advanced mail program.

Type L to select Folder List and then inbox to see what messages that you have received.

The rest of this program is quite easy to use. Why use mail instead? Mail has the advantage that it is easy to send files that you composed offline plus it is easy to read many files at once into a log file that you then read off line.