Email comes in a couple of different formats and this article will describe the terminology and the uses of each type.

POP mail account - this is an account that is created using your domain name for example lori@mattawan.org To download you mail into a program such as Outlook you may configure it by following these steps:

1. Open your Outlook program and click on “tools”
2. Once the tools menu is open click on “accounts”
3. You will see a tab labeled “mail”
4. Enter the name you would like displayed when you send mail for example Lori Anthony
5. Enter your username example lori@mattawan.org and then enter your password
6. Incoming mail server is POP3
7. incoming mail POP3 mail.yourservername.com
8. outgoing mail POP3 mail.yourservername.com
9. Click on my server requires authentication and then click “settings”
10. Under settings make sure that “use same settings as my incoming server”
11. Under advanced make sure the outgoing mail SMTP is set at 25
12. and incoming mail POP3 is set at 110
13. Click apply and your account is now ready to go.

Forwarder account - you may want to have an account name such as lori@mattawan.org but you would like it to relay to your current mail account for example if someone sends an email to lori@mattawan.org it would forward to webdzyner5@msn.com

Autoresponder - This is an automatic reply that you can setup for one of your existing email accounts.  For example if I was planning on going on vacation I could setup a forwarder that when someone sent an email to lori@mattawan.org it would send them back a note with something like this “thank you for your interest in Lori’s Web Design, we are currently out of the office until March 22nd and will promptly reply when we are back in the office.  If you need immediate assistance you may call us at 269-655-4477″.  Or if you have an email address for orders an autoresponder could be set to say ‘thank you for your order with Lori’s Designs.  We process orders Mon-Fri from 8 am to 5pm.  All orders received by 2pm EST will be shipped on the same day.”.

If you have other questions about email account please don’t hesistate to ask.

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