If you have an email account with your own personal domain name and not a 3rd-party one, you will be able to make use of an email application such as Outlook, Apple Mail or Thunderbird to access and manage your email accounts. The benefit of using such applications is that you can also take advantage of other features, such as calendars and address books. There are two email retrieval protocols that you can choose from when you configure the application of your preference to access your mailbox – POP3 and IMAP. With the first protocol, all messages that are received will be downloaded to your device – desktop or mobile, unless you decide to leave a copy on the mail server. With the second one, the email messages will be displayed locally at your end, but they will remain on the server all the time, so you can set up the account on numerous devices and see the messages from any place. You will also be able to access old emails if there’s a predicament with your Internet connection, which is a huge advantage over a web-based email service.

POP3 IMAP E-mail Accounts in Cloud Web Hosting

If you purchase a Linux cloud web hosting package from us, you will be able to create mailboxes with any domain name hosted in your account and to set them up with any email application. During the process, you can opt for IMAP or POP3 as we support both email retrieval protocols, so it will depend on you if all email messages will be downloaded at your end or if they will stay on the email server. With us, you can even set up a mailbox on your phone irrespective of its Operating System and we’ve added exhaustive tutorials on how to carry out that. To save yourself some time, you can also download and run our auto-configuration files to set up an email account in Thunderbird, Apple Mail or Outlook automatically. With our shared hosting plans, you can pick a preferred device and application to view your emails.