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Email overview
What do you require to send and receive email. What type of clients are
available. Continued in “Email Overview ”
Setting Up Email Clients
What email account information do you need before you can set up your email client and how do you get it and a video on how to setup a typical client.
Continued in Email Client Setup article.
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SMTP Overview
Have you recently moved over to broadband and are now having
problems sending email? Or are you in a hotel with your laptop and
find that you can read your email ok but get an error when you send?
If yes- You may have a problem with your SMTP
configuration. One of the most common configuration problems I
encounter is with SMTP settings.
SMTP stands for simple mail transfer protocol and is the protocol used for
sending email on the Internet.
Continued in SMTP Overview article.
Out of Office Reply
An out of office reply is an automated email response to an incoming email message.
It is common in large organisations to see automated replies saying that "so and so is out of the office for x number of days and…."
Continued in "out of office replies "
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The only way to guarantee that you have control of your email both now and in the future is to get your own email address. By this I don’t mean your own Gmail, Hotmail or any other email service provider email address.
You must have an email address that you yourself own, and for that you need your own domain name.
Although this may at first sight appear difficult it is relatively straightforward. See How to Get and Create Your Own Email Address for more details.
Access to the Internet is via an ISP (Internet Service Provider) and along with Internet Access most provide email facilities. Which consists of:
- An email address or addresses
- Mailbox/mailboxes
- Ability to send email (access to an SMTP server)
- Access via a browser (not standard but common)
Basically all you need to send and receive email. But should you use it?
The short answer is NO. Having said that I have been using it for years and it is for that reason I would advice against using it.
The reason is that your ISP isn’t fixed and so you have real problems if you want to change them, or they go out of business. In fact the reason they offer these add-on services is to lock you in, as they understand that faced with the hassle of moving most will simply stay.
The good news is that there are alternative solutions, and they aren’t expensive, but they do cost extra.
Next time we will look at how to get more control over your email and make in future proof.
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