POP Email Accounts
POP (Post Office Protocol) Email Accounts are a basic feature with nearly any web hosting package. Depending on your provider and your subscription plan, you can receive anything from a handful to unlimited POP Email Accounts for use with your web site. These multiple accounts come in extremely handy when organizing or routing your incoming email messages to the correct task or employee. For example email accounts can be given specific names depending on the content or who the message may regard – customer service@yourcompany.com, accounting@yourcompany.com, or technical support@yourcompany.com.
It also creates a more professional and corporate appeal for your web site, and on the flip side, a central location for your employees who are checking and sending email but with security protected passwords for each user. Even if you are only a one or two-man show, the extra POP Email Accounts can allow you to assign your personal and business emails different accounts to help separate work from pleasure.
Since POP Email is a standard protocol for any transmission of email it is built into any mainstream Internet or email program including the reigning email application Microsoft Outlook. Since messages to a POP Email Account are stored on a server, software like the popular Outlook or similar programs will regularly check for new messages and download them to your computer or mobile device.
This is what separates POP accounts from webmail. Messages to a POP account can be downloaded and accessed via a client email program to be viewed on your home turf, whereas webmail can only be accessed through your browser in your webmail account – hotmail, gmail, Yahoo, or your web hosts webmail, etc. POP accounts lend themselves to more control of content, better spam and filter control, and overall flexibility as compared to webmail.
As you consider webhosts or as you evaluate your current provider take into consideration your email needs and what a given web host can offer you. The best web hosting providers generally offer unlimited POP email accounts with their web hosting plans, whereas free web hosting companies generally offer limited or no POP email accounts.
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