There are numerous web-based email providers that you can use, but using an email with your own personal domain name will give you more credibility if you are running a company, for example, not to mention that with web-based services there are limitations on the maximum size of the attachments that you can send or receive. If you use an email service that offers support for the IMAP and POP3 email retrieval protocols, you will not encounter such problems and you will be able to use any program on your PC to access your mailboxes, including Apple Mail, Thunderbird or Outlook. You can even set up a mailbox on your phone. The difference between the two protocols is that with IMAP, an email message is displayed locally at your end, but remains on the email server, whereas with POP3, the message is downloaded on your computer, unless you set up the program in such a way as to store a copy on the server.

POP3 IMAP E-mail Accounts in Shared Website Hosting

Each and every shared website hosting plan that we offer will allow you to create mailboxes with any domain name hosted under your account and to set them up on any device. During the setup process, you can pick between the IMAP and the POP3 email protocols, as we offer support for both, so you can decide which one to rely on in accordance with your preferences and the purpose of your account – you may want to download all emails in case you have a personal account and to store the messages on the mail server – in case you have a business account, for instance. The Email Manager, which is integrated into our custom-developed Hepsia hosting Control Panel, permits you to download and run a small auto-config file, so as to set up an email account with an email software app – Thunderbird, Outlook or Apple Mail. You can use even your smartphone to get your email messages and we’ve added a comprehensive tutorial on how to perform this on an iPhone or an Android phone.