Email Options

[TCH-Rick]

I received a note via the Help Desk today as a follow-up and thought I would share her thoughts with you on the pros and cons of various email configurations.

 

From my prospective as a new user I would like to know what options I had for email, the pros and cons of each, and how to set each up. I wrote an outline of how I think it works below. Feel free to edit and use it if you feel it will help

 

kathy

 

1. straight forwarding to your account at your ISP

Pro: don't have to change current email settings on your PC

Pro: can use both your ISP email address and your own domain email address(es)

What Happens: email to yourname@yourdomain is forwarded to your current email account at your ISP

For Example: say you have an Earthlink dial-up account, and your email is you@earthlink.net. You have a domain hosted through TCH called myTCHdomain.com. Say you also set up an email address called sendtome@myTCHdomain.com. Using the forwarding options through cpanel, set sendtome@myTCHdomain.com to forward to you@earthlink.net. All email for sendtome@myTCHdomain.com will be forwarded to you@earthlink.net. No changes need to be made to your current email program on your PC. No accounts need to be set up under your domain at TCH.

 

 

2. POP account on TCH

Pro: can have different email accounts go to one email program on your PC

Pro: can use TCH's web mail feature

Con: have to change the email configuration on your PC (there is a FAQ on this on the TCH site on how to do this)

What Happens: mail sent to email addresses at your domain stay on TCH servers until your POP emailer reads them off. Emails are then stored on your PC

 

 

3. Use web mail on your TCH domain

Pro: read email and have saved emails available from any web browser

Con: if many emails, may need larger TCH plan to cover space or bandwidth usage

What Happens: emails are received and stored on the TCH servers.

 

Thanks for putting this together!

[Head Guru]

Another TCH user in action!