POP3 E-mail Overview
You have your choice of a variety of programs you can use to use to access, send, and receive
your e-mail. Some of the popular ones are Pegasus Mail, Eudora, Netscape Mail, and Outlook.
Most are free, and can be found at CWSApps Internet Software or
try Eudora.com for Eudora.
Configuring you e-mail client:
Once you select a program to access your mail, you will need to enter a few
settings into your program to access your e-mail account:
POP3 Host - YourDomainName.com
SMTP Host - YourDomainName.com
Username - Your userid or POP3 account name if you have multiple pops.
Password - The password you chose for your account or additional POP3 box.
Note: - You may need to use your IP# as the POP3 and SMTP
Host until the domain name is registered.
Telnet access to e-mail.
You can also access your e-mail during a telnet session with your account. Once you
log in using telnet, you have several options:
Pine
Pine is a popular text driven mail program that was developed by the Univerity of
Washington. To use pine, Type pine at the prompt. It is text menu driven,
with all of the commands listed at the bottom of the screen. To view your
incoming email, type "L" and then select "Inbox" to see your incoming mail.
If you want to set your domain name as the default domain name for
outgoing mail, edit the file .pinerc in your home directory and change
the domain name line. The rest of the program is quite easy to use. More info on
Pine can be found at http://www.washington.edu/pine/.
mail
Type "mail" to see if you have any mail. Either type the # of the message you want to view or
hit "Enter" to cycle through your email. You can compose and send a message with mail by typing:
mail -s "Subject" Dest@Email_Address
Your message goes here
Sending Mail
Setting your email client's SMTP Host to your domain name will allow you to send mail through
our mail servers. Before sending mail with SMTP (simple mail transport protocol), you must check
your POP3 mail account at least once.
Configuring your e-mail - e-mail forwarding, redirects, autoresponders, etc.
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