Multiple Emails Accounts

[linker]

I've seen from your packages that we can create multiple email accounts starting with a maximum of 50 in X1 package. Why do we need multiple email accounts? X15 package have 750 email accounts that can be created. What are this for? Is this for the admin or for the users who will be joining the website?

[dave]

You can use these domains for whatever you like.

Example:
Bob registers bobsplace.com for his company
Bob sets up email accounts for himself, fred, sally, roger, and pam so that they have an @bobsplace.com email address

Bob has a side project calls bobsstuff.com and sets up that domain as an addon domain
only Bob, fred, and pam are working on that project so only those people needs emails @bobsstuff.com

[linker]

What is the difference with having an email that has my domain to an email that is from email providers like Yahoo and Gmail? I mean they are both emails but there must be advantage and disadvantage of each type of email.

Also, does emails occupy my hard disk space on the server?

[dave]

yourname@somefreeservice.com looks pretty tacky. Also you cannot use advanced services like barracuda spam filtering with free accounts and you are locked into their proprietary webmail format instead of having all of the standard email protocols and functions available.

Yes email does utilize your disk space, most people use a client like Outlook or Thunderbird and configure it to delete emails over 30 days old so that you can use the webmail client for recent emails if you need to.

[ResidentGeek]

Another thing about a good portion of the free email services is delivery problems.  As an experienced System administrator, Yahoo and Hotmail are the worst about receiving email.

[Webguy]

@Linker - think of the name of your email address as additional advertising for your company.  That's why you want your own name.  As for amount of space email takes up on a server, if unchecked, your server can fill up really quickly so an auto delete after x number of days is handy.

[FrankSpencer]

I don't know if this is still the case, but historically a lot of places refused free accounts for registration as they can be made quickly and with fake info. Real accounts were needed to act as proof of who you were.

[dave]

That's another good point

[Sunwalker]

I've seen from your packages that we can create multiple email accounts starting with a maximum of 50 in X1 package. Why do we need multiple email accounts? X15 package have 750 email accounts that can be created. What are this for? Is this for the admin or for the users who will be joining the website?

Seconding the previous answers, I think it looks more professional to have youremail@yourdomain.com than to have youremail@freemailhosting.com. If you have a website, you will most possible need multiple email accounts associated to your website. For every website of mine, I created at least three email accounts: info@mydomain.com, admin@mydomain.com, and myname@mydomain.com.

[linker]

Thank you very much for the pointers and I'm glad that I have asked this one.

Dave, could it be possible to set my email account that will use my hard disk space at home rather than the hard disk in the server? Emails are not that big but I'm thinking if this is possible then I would save the server space for more important parts of the website.

[dave]

Sure that's no problem at all you just use an Email client like Outlook, by default it will remove email from the server.

Lots of people set their Email client to only remove email that is older than 30 days so that they can get 30 days worth of email via webmail from anywhere while still keeping their storage requirements on the server low.

[abender]

I'm thinking that it will be bad for us to delete emails that are 30 days old. I mean there could be some problems that will take more than 30 days to fix.

I know that it is the clients choice to delete the emails after 30 days or not. I'm just saying that this practice might have problems in the future.

[dave]

We are just talking about deleting them off the server, you would still have them on your local computer just like any pop3 email account. Of course you could set them to delete whenever you want or not to delete at all. Some clients just dont want to take up their webspace with emails.

[Sunwalker]

I don't know if this is still the case, but historically a lot of places refused free accounts for registration as they can be made quickly and with fake info. Real accounts were needed to act as proof of who you were.

Yes, it is still the case. I encountered many websites which don't allow their potential users to join using Yahoo or Hotmail account. It may have something to do with the delivery problems described by ResidentGeek.

[WeHostToo]

If you have a website, you will most possible need multiple email accounts associated to your website. For every website of mine, I created at least three email accounts: info@mydomain.com, admin@mydomain.com, and myname@mydomain.com.

Depending on the account's email settings, that might not be absolutely necessary. On my domain, no matter what someone puts before the @, it will get to me. If a specific email address is not set up, then it goes to the default on the account. That way I could give out *any* email address @mydomain and still get the email. Of course, there are spam-related downsides to this, but I also have a good spam filter, so it's all good.