There’re numerous web-based email providers that you can resort to, but having a mailbox with your own personal domain name will give you more credibility if you have a business, for instance, not to mention that with web-based email services there are limitations on the 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 will not have such problems and you’ll be able to use any program on your personal computer to access your emails, including Apple Mail, Outlook or Thunderbird. You can even set up an email account on your smartphone. 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, whereas with POP3, the message is downloaded onto your personal computer, unless you configure the program in such a way as to store a copy on the server.
POP3 IMAP E-mail Accounts in Shared Web Hosting
With a shared web hosting plan from our company, you’ll be able to use any device and any email app to see your emails. We offer support for the POP3 and IMAP email protocols, so you can pick either one when you set up an email account according to your own preference. To make things simpler, you can download a small file from your Control Panel’s Email Manager section for each mailbox that you create. You can automatically set up the latter with your chosen application by simply clicking on that file. This option is an alternative to our webmail and the two email services are harmonized, so if you create a folder in Outlook, for instance, it will appear both in the webmail and on any computer where the given mailbox is set up.