POP Mailboxes

Introduction

By default, all email addressed to your domain is forwarded to the default mail forwarding address listed within Email Settings under your Control Panel. As such, email addressed to anyone@yourdomain.com will be forwarded to your "real" email address. An alternative to having mail forwarded is to retrieve mail from POP mailboxes.

You can setup five private POP accounts for individual mailboxes within Email Settings under your Control Panel. For example, email addressed to sales@yourdomain.com could be held in a private POP mailbox and be accessed with a unique id and password.

If you remove the default mail forwarding address all that was normally forwarded to that address will be held in the master POP account. The five additional POP accounts within Email Settings allow for more privacy in retrieving email to specific addresses.

Configuring the 5 POP Accounts within the Control Panel

Locate the "POP Accounts" section in Email Settings. To create a new POP account, enter the username of the new POP account. For example, if you want email addressed to webmaster@yourdomain.com to be held in a POP account, enter the username "webmaster" in the column titled, "@yourdomain". Be sure to enter a unique id and password for each new POP account as illustrated below.

For this example, the following settings would be used to access the "webmaster" POP account:

   POP Account:    customer1@yourdomain.com

   SMTP Server:    (none currently available for public use)

*** Important ***
The User ID for the additional POP accounts is NOT the same as your Web Site userid. You need to assign unique ids and passwords for each additional POP mailbox for privacy.

Do not remove the default mail forwarding address in Email Settings unless you will be retrieving email from the master POP account.

If more than five POP accounts are needed, contact support@mrtech.com.