Knowledge Base

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Email & Mailing Lists > General Questions
Yes- you can setup e-mail aliases @ your domain, which forward to either another Mr.Host account, an address at your domain, or another e-mail address you have somewhere else. To setup a new alias,
Email & Mailing Lists > General Questions
Yes, we call these "Exploders", they're like mini mailing lists. You can create exploders @ your domain, and have it forward to up-to 25 other addresses. This can be useful many different situation
Email & Mailing Lists > General Questions
Yes! You can add several different types of e-mail addresses, all @your domain, from the E-mail section of the Customer Control Panel.
Email & Mailing Lists > General Questions
Yes, you can use any e-mail client that supports either POP3 or Imap4 e-mail protocol.
Email & Mailing Lists > General Questions
Yes! To ensure uniqueness, and to avoid confusion about redirections and weird numbered usernames, Mr.Host has designed a system to allow you to login directly as your e-mail address. This syste
Email & Mailing Lists > General Questions
You can add extra POP3/Imap mailboxes via the Mailboxes page of the Customer Control Panel. All you need is a e-mail address and a password for the mailbox.
Email & Mailing Lists > General Questions
You can check your e-mail mailboxes, either by using our Web Mail Interface or by using a e-mail client like Outlook Express or Eudora. When checking your mailbox, please use your FULL e-mail ad
Email & Mailing Lists > General Questions
First of all, make sure you've set up an actual e-mail mailbox from the Customer Control Panel, and that you've waited at least 5 minutes for the changes to take affect. Then you can either 1) C
Email & Mailing Lists > General Questions
To send e-mail so that the return address says whatever@yourdomain.com you just need to configure your e-mail client software so the e-mail address and/or return address ir your alias address. Mos
Email & Mailing Lists > General Questions
E-Mail for all your mailboxes shares the quota allocated to you for your web hosting account. For example, the Bronze hosting plan currently comes with 10GB of storage; so if you only use 1GB of st
Email & Mailing Lists > General Questions
With POP3 (Post Office Protocol version 3), the mail is "popped" off our server and onto your home computer. There's no synchronizing going on, just copying of mail files from one place to another. I
Email & Mailing Lists > General Questions
You can, although make sure to keep track of your e-mail usage, otherwise you could end up running out of storage space. If you chose to leave your messages on the mail server, and you don't clean
Email & Mailing Lists > General Questions
Email auto-responders will allow you to setup an auto-reply on any e-mail address(es) within your account. When your visitors send an e-mail to an address with an auto-responder, they will automatical
Email & Mailing Lists > General Questions
These settings are only required if you plan to use third party mail software like Outlook Express or Eudora. Incoming Mail (POP/IMAP) Server: mail.mrhost.ca Outgoing Mail (SMTP) Server: smtp.mr
Email & Mailing Lists > General Questions
This is a very convenient feature. A catch-all account can receive any e-mail that is not sent to an account at your domain name for which there is already an address set up. For instance, if one of y
Email & Mailing Lists > General Questions
The POP3 or Imap username for your mailbox is yoru FULL e-mail address. So, for example, if you've created a e-mail mailbox: me@mydomain.com you would use 'me@mydomain.com' as your username.
Email & Mailing Lists > General Questions
The incoming (POP3/IMAP) server is: mail.mrhost.ca
Email & Mailing Lists > General Questions
The outgoing (SMTP) mail server is: smtp.mrhost.ca
Email & Mailing Lists > General Questions
On our system, EVERY e-mail account acts as BOTH a POP3 and an IMAP account. Really they are just two different ways to read the mail on your account with us. With POP3, the mail is "popped" off ou
Email & Mailing Lists > General Questions
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