Email is the lifeline of any online business, offering a cost
effective method of communication over the Internet. If you have
an online presence and/or business it is essential that you have
your own mail server - a mail server is a site on the web where
you can have your own personal mail box. With a mail server you
can send and receive mail to just about anyone on the Internet.
However there is a lot more to having a mail account then just
sending and receiving mail, such as auto-responders, forwarders,
aliases, mailing lists and catch all mailboxes.
Aliases
Make sure that you can set up as many aliases as you like with
your ISP. An alias is another name for an email address or a
number of addresses. Many ISP allow you to have multiple aliases
such as sales@yourdomain.com and support@yourdomain.com.
Auto-responders
An auto-responder is an automatically generated email message
that provides static information to the recipient. For example,
if an email is sent to one of your email addresses an email will
be sent automatically to the sender of the email.
Forwarders
Make sure you check with your ISP that you can set up
forwarders. Forwarding is where different aliases can be
forwarded to one or more email addresses. For example, if you
have the email address info@yourdomain.com, you can set up a
forwarder so that all emails sent to info@yourdomain.com are
forwarded to your other email address sales@yourdomain.com.
Catch-all
A catch-all mailbox basically catches all emails with typos,
incorrect names etc, but the email has the domain name in the
email address spelt correctly (e.g. typo@yourdomain.com). For
example, you can set up an alias such as
mailmanager@yourdomain.com and all emails with typos are
redirected to this mailbox.
Mailing Lists
A mailing list is a system for distributing email messages to
many people at once. Mailing lists are a good tool to use if you
have a brochure, catalog or newsletter and you want to
distribute to lots of people. ISP should either have some sort
of Mailing list program installed or have a mailing list
included on their mail server.
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