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Checking your E-mail

• Web Based Access (Webmail)
  We have an online e-mail reader for you to use. It is available at http://mail.bytehosting.com/. Log in with your e-mail address as the username and the associated password.
  
  
• External Mail Client
  You can also check your e-mail from any POP3 or IMAP client, such as Outlook Express, Thunderbird, or Eudora to-do this You will need the following information:
  
  

  Server	Protocol	Hostname	Port	SecurePort
  Incoming Server:	POP3	mail.bytehosting.com	110	995
  	IMAP	mail.bytehosting.com	143	993
  Outgoing Server:*	SMTP	mail.bytehosting.com	25	TLS
  	SUBMISSION	mail.bytehosting.com	587	TLS

  
  * Server Requires Authentication
  To access any of the services above you will be required to authenticate. When you are configuring your mail client use your FULL@EMAIL.com as your username. For more information please see the section 'Sending Email via ByteHosting Servers' below.
  
  Mail-Client Configuration
  We have created the following guides to help you setup your email client please choose your mail client below to access the tutorial:
  
  
  • Microsoft Outlook 2000
  
  
• Sendmail/PHP:
  The path to sendmail on our servers is /usr/sbin/sendmail or /usr/lib/sendmail

Sending Email via ByteHosting Servers

ByteHosting SMTP servers require authentication in order to allow remote machines to send email (relay) via them. In order to send email, your mail client must be capable of using SMTP-AUTH. In most mail clients this generally just means clicking the 'This server requires authentication' checkbox.

NOTE: Make enable smtp authentication but disable 'Secure Password Authentication (SPA)'. SPA authentication is for Microsoft Windows™/Exchange™ Servers, our mailservers are UNIX™.

For security reasons we do NOT implement 'POP-b4-AUTH' technology. You are required to authenticate if you want to send messages to domains outside of our network.

Managing your E-mail

Go to qmailadmin and log in to your account. Leave the POP account as postmaster to administer your entire domain. Enter the domain name you want to work with. Your password is the same one you use for checking your mail. Once you're in, you've got a bunch of options:

Pop Accounts

These are actual mailboxes where users can receive e-mail, and read it with any mail client (like Netscape, Microsoft Outlook, etc.), or with sqwebmail. Users log into their POP box by specifying the e-mail address as the username and the password you assign.

To set up a POP account, click on Add a Pop User. Enter the Pop Account name (the corresponding e-mail address will be accountname@yourdomain.com). Enter your desired password in both fields. Then enter your real name and click the add account button.

Aliases

It's sometimes useful to have more than one e-mail address feed into the same POP account. For example if you have a POP account joe@mydomain.com and you'd like him to also receive e-mail sent to sales@mydomain.com, set up an alias to do this.

When the screen comes up just enter the new name (eg. sales) and the POP box you want it to fall into, and click Add.

Forward Address

Forwards are essentially aliases that link mail to an offsite e-mail account. For example, you could use a forward to have mail sent to support@mydomain.com be routed to joe5678@myemail.com.

When you are adding a new forward, the Forward Email Address is the offsite e-mail account, and the Local Name is the address within your domain.

Mailing list

These basically work like forwards, except that they send the message to an entire list of addresses instead of just one. Mail lists are great for a list of clients, a newsletter, or anything where you need to send mail to a group of people.

To add a mailing list click the New Mail List button, enter the name of your desired mailing list and press add. After that, you're back to the main menu where you can add subscribers, remove subscribers, or delete or show everyone who is subscribed. To add a subscriber just click the little yellow dot icon in your mailing list section and enter their e-mail address and press add. Same for delete except enter their e-mail and press delete! You can always click on Show Subscribers to be sure you added everyone you wanted.