What is Email Hosting?

Email hosting used to dominate the web hosting manufactures as the traditional hosting service. As 3rd party email services such as Hotmail and Gmail come to be popular, there's no need to venture into self-help email hosting any more. So email hosting is often provided as a further service along with website hosting. Here we address some of the most base email hosting options for web hosting beginners to make informed decisions.

What are Imap / Pop / Smtp accesses

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Smtp is the protocol email servers abide by in sending email messages. There used to be social Smtp servers that whatever can use to send out emails in unlimited amounts. Soon the age of spam comes and it almost dies out. Nowadays, you have to be authenticated to use an Smtp server to send out emails.

Imap and Pop are the protocols for you to receive emails. Pop or Pop3 servers are the most base email server / service that enables the users to log on to read their emails. While Imap shares essentially the same functionalities such as email retrieval, Imap servers allow the users to control on their email accounts synchronously rather than asynchronously as with a Pop server.

What is web-based email access

Web-based plainly means the users can passage their email account via a website with a local browser. Gmail is a typical web-based email service. 10 years ago, quite some email servers allow only passage via email clients such as Microsoft Outlook.

What is mail filtering

Mail filtering is a technology to filter the mails/messages you get agreeing to pre-configured rules.

What is spam filtering

Spam used to be a major problem, but no more. Contemporary spam recognition and filtering principles can successfully filter out 99% of spams out of your mail inbox. Spam filtering is thus plainly a filter that free you from being bothered by spam mails.

What are proclamation lists

Announcement lists are mail lists that can be subscribed to by visitors of your website. You can send out mails such as announcements to those subscribers. Very beneficial in arresting with your visitors and consequent them up after they have left your website.

What are conference lists

Discussion lists are mail lists that habitancy can subscribe to and then receive conference emails corresponded among all the subscribers. Each of the conference list subscribers can not only read the conference emails from the others but also send out his or her own emails to be seen by all the other subscribers. It's like a forum, but run in emails.

What are auto responders

Auto-responders are not email lists because it contains no email addresses. It's plainly a conditional responder that automatically sends out emails in response to incoming messages. For example, you want to catch all emails sent to whatever email @example.com, auto-responders can help you with that by not missing a particular message that is sent to @example.com and responding with the definite email address the traditional sender should consequent instead.

What is Email Hosting?