Webmail
allows you access to your e-mail away from your computer.
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What is Webmail?
One of the features which is being offered by some hosting providers
is Webmail. But what is Webmail and is it useful to you? Before
we talk about Webmail let’s look at e-mail.
E-mail is one of the most useful tools of having a hosting account.
It allows you to send and receive messages to anyone on the Internet
in just a minute. You can attach documents to e-mail, you can
send files with e-mail and a whole lot more. Usually to send
or receive a message in e-mail you configure or setup a computer
that you are using on a regular basis to handle your e-mail.
This computer you use is programmed with the settings of your
e-mail account. When you want to send a message you will open
your e-mail program (Outlook, Pegasus, etc.) and type in your
message. When you want to read your e-mail you will look in your
inbox on this computer. All your e-mail is handled from this
computer. But what if you need to send a message and you are
not at your computer? This is where Webmail comes in.
Normally if you are not at your computer which
handles your e-mail you can’t send or receive e-mail. Now if you have
access to another computer you could then set up that computer
to send and receive your e-mail as well. But what if you travel?
Do you want to set up every computer you come along to handle
your e-mail? No. That’s where Webmail comes in. Webmail
allows you to access your e-mail account wherever you are in
the world and whenever your want. All you need is a computer
with Internet access. You don’t have to configure anything.
To access your Webmail all you do is type in your website address
something like: http://webmail.mysite.com or http://www.mysite.com:2095.
(What you type depends on what version of Webmail you have; your
host can provide you with your correct address.)
When you type in your Webmail address what happens
is that you open a program on the server your account is hosted
on and Webmail
accesses your e-mail account. From the Webmail program you can
read your e-mail, send an e-mail, modify your address book, send
a file—everything you can at home or work with your computer
you can do with Webmail. If you have ever used an account like
Hotmail or Yahoo Mail—Webmail is the same thing. But instead
of setting up a entirely different account with Hotmail, or Yahoo,
you can use your e-mail account with your website. This allows
you to have 24/7 access to your e-mail account anywhere you are
in the world, as long as you find any computer hooked up to the
Internet. A very useful feature indeed.
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