Email addresses may be created by following along with this article: How Do I Create An Email Address?
An email "client" is a program installed on your computer which allows you to receive and send emails. Since there are so many different types of email clients, we cannot possibly cover adding email in all the different ways from each email client program, so this article will cover the understanding required to add your email account to just about any email client.
Once your email account is active you may make use of your email account in the following ways:
Adding An Email Account To Your Email Client (Outlook, Outlook Express, Windows Mail, etc) - POP3
You will require some settings to add your email account to your email client.
These settings are:
- Your Name: (The name you would like to appear when people see mail "from" you)
- Email Address: (This would be the email address you would like people to reply back to)
- Account Type: POP3
- Incoming / Outgoing Mail Server: mail.(yourdomain).co.za - where the value in brackets is replaced by your domain name - this is the same for both outgoing and incoming mail servers.
- Username: (The full email address of the email account you are setting up)
- Password: (The password you have created for this account)
Example:
- Your Name: Person Smith ~ Your.co.za
- Email Address: person@your.co.za
- Account Type: POP3
- Incoming / Outgoing Mail Server: mail.your.co.za
- Username: person@your.co.za
- Password: 1StrongPassword
Some ISP's (The company who provides your internet connection) also limit the ability to send email on the default mail sending port of port 25; this is done as an anti-SPAM measure.
If you experience trouble with sending mail; you are able to make an adjustment under the "more settings..." button, found on the advanced tab (this example pertains to Outlook). Here you can change the default port number from 25 to port 26. Both ports will typically work through the mail server, but port 25 will often encounter issues depending on how your ISP chooses to counteract SPAM.