| Manic Design provides
five different email options which satisfy a wide range of needs. You may
add, change, and delete email options by using Manic Design's email management
system, available from Manic Design's customer control panel: Email account An email account is the most common email option. Email sent to an address such as yourchoice@yourdomain.com is stored at Manic Design until it is checked using an email program such as Eudora Pro, Netscape Mail, Microsoft Internet Explorer, or any of the hundereds of other POP3-compliant email programs. Use this option if you are interested in keeping your Manic Design mail account separate from other email addresses you have (i.e. to separate your personal email from your work email), or if you wish to receive email and do not currently have an email account at home or work. Manic Design provides step-by-step instructions on how to configure your current email software to check email from your Manic Design email accounts. Many users choose to create more than one email account on an existing domain. For example, you may wish to create email accounts for each of your employees, of the form ann@yourdomain.com, bob@yourdomain.com, etc. Each email account is its own mailbox, with its own username and password, so that Ann (in the above example) can not read Bob's email, and vice versa. Email alias An email alias is also known as an email forward. Email which arrives to an alias such as yourchoice@yourdomain.com is instantly forwarded to a destination of your choice. This destination can be any valid email address, whether it be an account at Manic Design, an account at your ISP, etc. The sender will not know that the email is being forwarded. For example: someone@yourdomain.com -> youremail@yourisp.com another@yourdomain.com -> youremail@yourdomain.com This option is often used to create several email address which ultimately forward to the same destination. A company might use email aliases such as sales@yourdomain.com, support@yourdomain.com, and info@yourdomain.com, all of which would forward to the appropriate employee's email account. Global email alias A global email alias, or "star" email forward, is the "catch all" of email options. It forwards all email addressed to your domain (i.e. ***@yourdomain.com) to a single email account, whether it be an email account at Manic Design, or your dial-up email account. Normally, if someone sends email to an email address which doesn't exist (perhaps due to a mis-spelling), the message is returned to the sender with a "User Unknown" error message. A global email alias allows you to receive such email, even if the "to" address does not exist at your domain. You can use a global email alias in conjunction with other Manic Design email options. In this case, all other email options take precedence, such that the global email alias in used only when necessary. Advanced users can use a global email alias, in conjunction with 3rd-party software, to collect all mail addressed to a given domain, and then redistribute it to several employees on an intranet. Autoresponder Autoresponders send a preformatted reply when mail is sent to a certain address. Samples and a detailed explanation are provided here. Multiple email alias The multiple email alias is an email alias which forwards mail to small groups of up to 5 people, i.e.: sales@yourname.com -> user@yourname.com,
-> user2@yourname.com,
-> user@yourisp.com,
-> user@anotherisp.com,
-> user2@anotherisp.com
All mail sent to the multiple
email alias is forwarded to all recipients. |