How to make best use of email for your dynamic web presence. Some helpful updates on Email Forwarding, Auto-responder, SPF protection, Mailing list, etc. services’ usability
In our recent posts on the newest additions and updates to the ever-expanding NTC Hosting Encyclopedia there has been a lot to learn about the fundamental sides of dynamic web presence such as scripting, the LAMP platform, database management, Multimedia content building, just to mention a few. You have been given a good deal of useful tips on what is the most effective software to use for communicating your personal or business ideas to the world, thus making the most of what the web has to offer.
That kind of communication between you and your friends, partners or customers must be well supplemented by a reliable email service. While your well-developed dynamic website represents your one-way message to the global Internet audience, the email communication going with it helps you maintain a 24/7 dialogue with your website visitors. Trying to be as much of help as possible in detailing for you the most successful email practices, we have made new updates to the Email Terminology chapter of our encyclopedia.
What is the basic difference between POP3 email clients and webmail clients in terms of interface and usability? The newly updated Webmail article will visualize it for you, with the inclusion of illustrative screenshots of some of the most popular webmail clients such as RoundCube and Horde. Further, you will learn why you should think twice before choosing a free webmail service for your business correspondence.
No matter what your email client choice is, whether you use a webmail application or a hosted email solution, you will need to go through some email account set-up steps. Although this might sound as pretty a complicated administrative task, the set up email account article will show that creating an email account has been made truly easy by the majority of email hosting companies today. In addition, the SMTP server article will demonstrate how to easily retrieve your mail server details for the e-mail account configuration through a hosted email client.
Running your daily email tasks is well facilitated by supplementary email services that each self respected email provider is expected to offer. Get a good grasp of how the average email auto-responder works and see a visual example of how its interface should look like to help you easily automate your daily mail operations and focus your efforts on other important tasks. See how fast and easy it is to use email forwarding to transfer the messages sent to an email address to another internal/external email address through a user-friendly forward email interface. As concerns the security of your email accounts, get yourself updated on how to make best use of SPF protection with a single mouse click.
If your website is to serve a community or an e-commerce store, for instance, you will definitely need a more powerful online communication solution along with the regular email service. Check out the newly updated mailing list article presenting the simplified sequence of steps for configuring your own mail list to send routine event or discount notifications to multiple recipients at a time.
Well, hopefully, this email-dedicated post has given you some better idea of the niceties of the email service and useful references to the email usability updates to our encyclopedia’s Email chapter.
Tags: Email, email auto-responder, email forwarding, mailing list, set up email, SMTP server, SPF protection, webmail