Electronic Mail Services
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Electronic Mail (E-mail)
- postmaster@yourdomain.com
- webmaster@yourdomain.com
- shippingmaster@yourdomain.com
- accountingmaster@yourdomain.com
- salesmaster@yourdomain.com
- janitormaster@yourdomain.com
- all ends up in the mail account = bob@yourdomain.com
The Basics: Electronic Mail (e-mail) is a message sent from your computer account to another. The recipient can read the message on their computer and then reply to the message or forward it to another user's computer anywhere on the Internet.
By utilizing a PhutureNet e-mail account you can more directly align your address with your web pages. So instead of a generic account that your current Internet Service Provider (ISP) assigns you, you now have a far more flexible address. If your employer is your ISP (i.e. Gov., Universities, Big Companies), you can use their connection to retrieve your e-mail at PhutureNet. You can continue to use your usual mail client software. You don't have to live with 838723.74311@serviceprovider.com. With PhutureNet you can have a more friendly address that could relate to your home page, like matt@the-future.com.
If you have a domain name registered with PhutureNet, you can assign an infinite number of mail accounts with your domain name as the suffix. This is a great way to have accounts like webmaster@yourdomain.com or sales@yourdomain.com to give your customers easily remembered addresses.
Some uses: Some people want to set up temporary accounts for special projects on the web or certain business applications. By using any POP mail client software (i.e. Eudora) you can easily retrieve your mail anywhere in the world.
E-mail Responder
When you want to provide frequently asked questions to anyone who asks, you can setup an e-mail responder and have the information automatically sent to the requestor. This is great with price lists, FAQ's, newsletters, or just about anything. You simply put a mailto: tag in your html page like our sample and tell your users to send any message to it, and they will get the document:
EXAMPLE:
Send any message to prices@the-future.com to get our current price list.
E-mail Aliasing - The Virtual Mial Account
The best way to describe e-mail aliasing is to think about how unmanageable it could be to be the only person in your company. You're the postmaster, webmaster, shippingmaster, accountingmaster, salesmaster, and janitormaster, and have a single e-mail account for each. You would spend so much time just retrieving messages that no work would get done, but your image could suffer if you only had one lonely e-mail people could send mail. Aliasing could solve this problem. All these e-mail accounts could simply be aliases that all point to your original E-mail Account with PhutureNet. You can have unlimited number of virtual mail accounts, but only have to retrieve your mail from one location, at one time.
Requires an E-mail Account with PhutureNet.
E-mail Forwarding
E-mail forwarding is sometimes confused with e-mail aliasing. Forwarding just means that your standard e-mail account is programmed to transparently redirect all inbound mail to any mail account you specify. So you can have your mail account at PhutureNet transfer to your Compuserve account without the sender knowing. No mail is collected and resent, all messages just 'bounce' off the PhutureNet mail server and land wherever you want.
Requires an E-mail Account with PhutureNet.
