There’re lots of web-based email service providers that you can resort to, but having an email account with your very own personal domain name will give you more credibility if you are running a company, for instance, not to mention that with web-based email services there are restrictions on the maximum size of the attachments that you can send or receive. In case you use an email service that offers support for the IMAP and POP3 email retrieval protocols, you won’t stumble upon such problems and you will be able to use any program on your PC to check your emails, including Thunderbird, Apple Mail or Outlook. You can even set up a mailbox on your phone. The difference between the two email protocols is that with IMAP, an email message is displayed locally at your end, but remains on the email server, while with POP3, the message is downloaded to your PC, unless you set up the program in such a way as to store a copy on the server.
POP3 IMAP E-mail Accounts in Shared Website Hosting
With a Linux shared website hosting from us, you’ll be able to use any device and any email app to see your emails. We offer support for the IMAP and POP3 protocols, so you can choose either one when you set up an email account according to your own preferences. To make things easier, you can download a small-sized configuration file from your hosting Control Panel’s Email Manager section for each email account that you create. You can effortlessly set up the latter with your chosen app by simply clicking on that file. This option represents an alternative to our webmail and the two email services are harmonized, so if you create a folder in Outlook, for example, it will appear both in the webmail and on any computer where the particular mailbox is set up.