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POP3 email accounts allow you to send and receive emails to and from your own computer. POP emails are stored on a mail server until you choose to download them for viewing, once they are downloaded they are removed from the mail server. Emails stored on the mail server are only deleted once you have downloaded these to your computer, so you should never loose any mail.

Many people use email clients such as Outlook or Outlook Express to write, send and collect their emails addressed to their POP account. Most email clients will allow many POP email accounts to be created, so when you check for your new mail, you computer will log on several times, sometimes to different mail servers.

You can redirect emails to a POP3 email account provided that you are able to login and collect emails at an alternative address.

Forwarding emails require no setup, you simply need to have another POP, IMAP or webmail account ready to receive these emails. For the most part, you'll be able to see what email address the sender used, so you should be able to distinguish between direct and forwarded emails.

Catch-all email collects all emails under one (or several domain names) into a single POP or forwarding email account. If there are other email accounts already setup, emails sent to these will not be collected by the catch-all email account.

By default all hosting accounts have catch-all email accounts disabled to prevent spamming. If enabled, catch-all email accounts can be redirected to an existing email account on your hosting or an external email provider.

In Outlook or Outlook Express simply go to Tools | Email Accounts | Next | Properties then modify any information on the first screen, make sure you don't change the mail server, username (account name) or password information, unless you have problems logging in to the mail server. Similar steps apply to other email clients.

If you have a Forwarding email account redirecting to this POP account, you could enter your forwarding email address here, without any issues.

You may receive the error "550 relaying blocked" or "enable smtp authentication". This is due to the default setting for many email clients for nor authenticating outgoing emails (to the SMTP server).

In Outlook or Outlook Express, go to Tools | Email Accounts | Next | Properties. View "More settings..." and select reenter your username and password for outgoing emails. This will verify your username and password when sending emails as well as receiving them. In other email clients there should be some mention of authentication in the email accounts menu, under "Servers", "Authentication" or "Advanced".

Most email viruses target Outlook and Outlook Express users, so you could download an alternative email client. However, the vast majority of email viruses can be avoided simply by avoiding opening any emails that look suspicious; never opening attachments unless it specifically tell you the content and you are expecting such and email. Never open any emails that contain attachments ending in .pif, .vb, .js, .exe as these are almost certainly infected. Sometimes files ending in .zip files as these can contain malicious content. If you have a preview pane in Outlook you can preview emails before actually opening them. Be careful with Outlook Express at the preview pane does not offer the same protection.

If you have agreed with the recipient, then there should be no problems as long as the email remains smaller than 20MB. If your recipient is not expecting any attachments in their next email, it is courteous to inform them beforehand to check on their connection speed, their email account limitations and so forth. Attachments (with a message on the attachment content or type) should be ok for the majority of recipients provided that its less than 250KB. Files larger than 20MB can be split into smaller fragments with WinZip or you could simply upload the file to your website and email the URL.

You can access webmail by adding /webmail after your domain name.

There are no limits to the number of email account you can have on one computer or on one domain name. If you already have a Catch-all email account setup, be aware not create unnecessary email accounts as these often provide for all your email needs. There may be restrictions on POP email accounts based on your hosting service, but these are rarely utilised in full. Please be aware of your ISP telling you to remove other email accounts, this is almost always unfounded, in any case, please contact us before taking action to fix persistent email or program errors.

Generally, one POP email account per computer would suffice if different people want their own separate accounts. If you personally have two computers, say one at home and one at work, you may wish to view all emails under one POP account. In this situation have one (or more) computer(s) to collect emails only and another to collect and then delete emails off the server. Go to Tools | Accounts | Properties, then select the Advanced tab and check the box: "Leave a copy of message on server", then modify the settings below as required and press OK.

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