In case email messages are an important component of your online communication with business associates or relatives, it would be better to use an email account with your own domain name and an email service provider that offers support for the IMAP and POP3 email delivery protocols, rather than resorting to a web-based service that involves limitations with regard to the maximum size of the attachments. In this way, you’ll be able to check your mailboxes on any desktop or mobile device using any client – Apple Mail, Thunderbird, Outlook, etc. With the IMAP email protocol, you’ll be able to examine the email messages locally at your end, but they will be on the server at all times, while with POP3, all email messages will be downloaded onto the device, unless you choose a copy to be kept on the mail server. Also, you’ll be able to take advantage of a lot of other handy options – calendars, contact groups, and so on, not to mention that if there’s a temporary problem with your Internet connectivity, you can still view your emails since they will be on your desktop or mobile device.

POP3 IMAP E-mail Accounts in Website Hosting

You’ll be able to use any email client and any desktop or mobile device to examine your email messages if you purchase one of our Linux website hosting packages. Our mail servers offer support for both email protocols (IMAP and POP3), so you can select the one that matches your requirements – you can download all email messages onto your PC or you can leave the emails on the email server if you’ve got a firm and a number of employees need to be able to access them, for example. You can even download an auto-configuration file for a given email account for any of the three most popular desktop clients – Outlook, Thunderbird and Apple Mail. You’ll simply have to run the file on your computer and that email account will be automatically set up. In case you would like to use your smartphone, we have in-depth tutorials on how to configure a mailbox on an iOS- or an Android-driven handheld device.