Starting your Website

Setting up Email

One of the great advantages of having your own domain name is now you can have your own personalized email address.  No more generic email addresses from AOL, Google or Microsoft.  Best of all, it's a free add on to your Lineson hosting account.

Email Clients

An email client is software that retrieves your email from a server on the internet, displays your emails for reading and allows you to compose and send emails from your computer.  Some clients like Microsoft Outlook provide additional functionality like calendaring and contact management. 

A note on POP vs. IMAP.

Access to your email account comes in two types, POP and IMAP.  Basically, POP downloads all your emails to your local computer and deletes them off the server, from there it is up to you to save or delete the messages.  In IMAP messages are kept on the server until you actually purge them, deleting them only remove them from your local inbox. 

So which should you use?  The easiest way to decide is to determine if you will need access to your email account from more than one computer.  For example, if you want to access your email from a computer at home and another one at work, choose IMAP.  That way you won't have different messages on each machine.  If you are only going to be accessing your email from one computer choose POP, it frees up space on the server and most anti-spam software works better with POP.  For more information see POP vs. IMAP

You will need to setup your email client to access your new email account.  Please review details on setting up Microsoft Outlook with your new email address or you can use the free Thunderbird email client.  Setup is similar. 

Setup Email

In your iBizPanel, click Products & Services, then click on Sites and Email then Click on the manage email accounts button, next to the website you want add email to.

Click Add email from the Quick Menu. 

Complete the form on the next page and click submit.  Remember your passwords. 

Advanced Email Options

There are several features you might want to take advantage of. 

Email Forwarding

You can have emails automatically forward to one or more different address, just enter the e-mail address in the 'forward e-mail field' separate multiple addresses with a comma.  You can also setup a mailing list.  Please lookup mailing list in your iBiz Panel FAQ.

Email Alias

You can have several email addresses with only one account and one single login.  Just enter the e-mail address in the E-mail Alias(es) field' separate multiple addresses with a comma.  For example, you can have one email service@xyz.com and add the aliases support@xyz.com and orders@xyz.com and pickup all the emails sent to all three addresses. 

Email Catchall

Want to get all the email sent to a domain?  To do this, edit the email user, and enter an asterisk (*) in the alias field.   But be careful this is a surefire way to get tons of spam. 

Vacation Message

The Vacation Message is intended to be used when you go out for a Vacation and wish to notify anybody who sends you an email at that time. To enable it simply follow these steps: 1. Go to the "Websites > Sites" section. 2. Click on "Manage Emails" on the "Quick Menu" 3. Select you website from the drop down menu and click "Go!" 4. Click on the pencil icon next to your email account. 5. Click on the checkbox next to the "Vacation Message" field. 6. Type your message in the field and hit "Save" The vacation message will be sent as a reply to the first email that is sent to this account from any given account. Note: The Vacation Message is NOT an Auto Responder, it will only reply once to the first message sent by any given address.

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