Email Accounts
Email accounts store your messages on a server, just like your ISP stores your email for you. When you register your domain name with Domain Direct, you receive one FREE email account.
Email accounts are similar to the email address your ISP gives you. The mail is stored on a server until you pick it up with your favorite email program (Outlook Express, Eudora, etc.), or you can use our Webmail interface to read you mail. In addition, your email account comes with Catch-all and an Auto-responder!
Yes! You can purchase additional Email Accounts for only $9.00US/year!
Catch-all delivers all email sent to your domain to your Email Account, regardless of what name it is addressed to. So even if someone mis-spells your name, you don't lose the email. The only time it doesn't send email to your Email Account is if the message is addressed to one of your forwarding accounts.
Anti-spam protects your email from unsolicited messages and other undesirable email, including viruses and web-bugs.
An auto-responder sends an automatic reply to each email delivered to your account. The auto-responder does not reply to email sent to your email forwarding addresses. Some examples of how you can use an auto-responder are acknowledging that you received messages or informing people that you are on vacation and won't be reading your email for a couple of days.
Webmail allows you to send and receive email using your Web browser. You can access your email from anywhere with an Internet connection. If you've ever used Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail or any other Webmail service, this is the same kind of service. The only difference is, instead of you18933@hotmail.com, your email address is you@yourdomain.com!
Quarantine is where any suspicious email is kept by the anti-spam system. You can log in to the quarantine and see how the anti-spam system is working for you.
Email Forwarding
When you register your domain name with Domain Direct we give you 5 FREE email forwarding accounts to use with your domain name. You set them all up though the easy-to-use Domain Control Panel.
Your email address right now probably looks something like this: you2763@some-internetprovider.com or you18933@hotmail.com (not very personal and hard to remember)
By registering your domain name with Domain Direct your email address can look like this: you@yourdomain.com (Professional/personal looking, easy to remember and it is yours for life!)
All email sent to address that you set up (through your Domain Control Panel) using your domain name such as you@yourdomain.com is then forwarded securely to your current email address that you have with your ISP. You receive email the same way you do now.
All you have to do is change the return address field in your mail program to your new personal address that you will set up through Domain Direct's email forwarding feature accessed thought the Domain Control Panel. Please refer to your mail program "help" instructions or your ISP's tech support to learn more about changing the return address on your mail program.
It takes 6 hours for the email redirection to be set up on our server once you have set it up through the Domain Control Panel.
Quick Review
All mail sent to your new email address you@yourdomain.com is then forwarded to your current email address at you ISP.
You can have all 5 of your FREE domain name email forwards redirected into the same email box at your ISP or have them redirected into separate email boxes at the same ISP or any other ISP.
Let's say you registered the domain name "yourdomain.com" with Domain Direct, you could now set up the following virtual email addresses:
| you@yourdomain.com | email will then be Forwarded to -> |
Your current email address at your ISP |
| sales@yourdomain.com | email will then be Forwarded to -> |
Your current email address at your ISP |
Notice that two different virtual email address using your domain name are forwarded into your email address at your ISP. You can also set up email addresses to be forwarded to other email boxes:
| yourfriend@yourdomain.com | email will then be Forwarded to -> |
Your friend's current email address at his/her ISP |
Note that you can set up your email forwards using your domain name to be redirected into any email box at any ISP (Internet Service Provider) or host provider.