What is the difference between an e-mail alias and a POP account?
If you are currently getting e-mail, you have a POP account. Most local ISP’s provide you with your own POP account. This POP account requires a username and password to access your e-mail. Your e-mail software is configured to retrieve the e-mail from your POP account. The problem with your POP account is the name. Most likely, it is some cryptic deviation of your name with your local ISP’s domain name attached to it. If you decide to change to another ISP, your POP account will change with it and you will be assigned a new e-mail address which very often results in lost mail and lost business. With an e-mail alias, you get to use your own domain name. YOU choose what the prefix will be (anything@yourdomain). This “alias” points to your current POP account either with EZwebhoster or your local ISP. If your POP account ever changes, you simply redirect the alias to your new POP account address. With EZwebhoster, you can have UNLIMITED aliases that all forward to your existing POP accou
• After an e-mail alias is created, the mail send to this e-mail alias is not stored on our virtual servers but is forwarded directly to your local ISP mail box. • A POP server allows the e-mail for the user to reside on our virtual servers and is NOT automatically forwarded to your local ISP mail box. The POP service on our Virtual servers allows a customer to have a unique Internet e-mail box. Virtual POP service also allows a customer to easily switch ISP’s without re-configuration of his/her e-mail client. POP usernames are up to 8 characters in length and must start with an alphabetic character. Passwords and user names are case sensitive and are entered in lower case. For more information, see our e-mail tutorial.
