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We do not allow outgoing SMTP
servers. You must use your Internet Service Provider's SMTP
account for your outgoing email.
Why? Because spammers use these servers as relays to send
out millions of unsolicited emails. Spamming is STRICTLY prohibited
on our servers, and we do everything in our power to prevent
it from happening. By running closed servers there is a much
lesser chance of them getting knocked out by spamming. Also,
since you must have internet service from an ISP to access
our server anyway, you can use your outgoing email account
with them for your outgoing mail. By keeping the SMTP servers
closed, our service run better and faster for you. 90% of
the hosts out there use this system, the ones who do not,
charge you for it. In special cases, we may give you SMTP
access. If you believe that you may qualify for this service,
please contact us at support@fastwebserver.com
Setting up your accounts for sending emails is a simple process.
Below you will find instructions for the four most popular
email clients.
Eudora Lite
Eudora Lite runs under both MS Windows and Mac OS operating
systems. Eurdora connects to the mail server over either the
Winstock or Macintosh TCP/IP. You may compose email offline,
but be sure that you are connected and your Winstock or Macintosh
TCP/IP settings are correct before you attempt to send or
receive emails. If you have just created your account with
us, it will exist on our servers but you may still not be
able to receive email to your yourname@yourdomain.com
address until InterNIC has activated you in the internet domain
name servers.
After you have installed Eudora, you must correctly configure
it to connect to your outgoing and incoming mail servers.
Follow these instructions to configure Eudora, much of this
process is self-explanatory:
1) Install Eudora, and start it up.
2) Select "Settings" from the
"Special" menu.
3) Select the "Getting Started"
tab, then under Real Name, enter the name you would like
to appear for this email account.
4) Under "POP Account" enter
yourname@yourdomain.com (yourname=your
email prefix, yourdomain=your
domain name)
5) Leave the "Return Address"
box blank unless you would like to have your mail recipients
send return mail to a different email account.
If you are using the Macintosh version, follow steps 6
and 7, PC users jump straight to step 8.
6) Make sure the TCP/IP radio button
is highlighted.
7) Click the "Personal Information"
tab.
8) Under "POP Account" enter
yourname@yourdomain.com again.
9) Fill out the "Real Name"
and "Return Address" fields as you did before.
10) Under "Dial up User Name"
enter your internet account user name (dial up account name)
11) Click the "Hosts" tab then
enter yourdomain@yourdomain.com
again under POP Account, and put yourdomain.com
under SMTP Server.
12) Go to the "Checking Mail"
tab and make sure "Save Password" is checked.
(optional)
NOTE: you must
setup your email account to send mail through your ISP's SMTP
server. This means you need to enter the name of your ISP's
SMTP server in the "SMTP Account" area of Eudora.
Any settings and configuration information pertaining to this
SMTP account can be obtained from your ISP.
These are the necessary steps to configure Eudora. By selecting
"Save Password" in the "Check Mail" tab,
Eudora will automatically sign in to your email account using
the password you provide. If there are multiple users on your
computer and you would not like them to have access to your
email account, then do not use this feature. When "Save
Password" is not used, you will have to enter your password
each time you attempt to receive email.
Your default email address is yourdomain@yourdomain.com,
this is where all emails to your domain will be sent, unless
other configurations take priority (such as autoresponders
and redirects mentioned later).
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Microsoft
Internet Explorer
Enter your information in the fields provided:
Full Name = the name you would like to have appear for your
email address
Email = yourname@yourdomain.com
POP = yourdomain.com
Account = your account username
Password = your account password
SMTP = ISPaccountname.com (this
would be your ISP account name)
From = whatever return address you would like to specify
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Netscape
Your Name = the name you would like to have appear for your
email address
Email Address = yourname@yourdomain.com
Reply To = whatever return address you would like to specify
Mail Server User Name = your account username
Outgoing SMTP = ISPaccountname.com
(this would be your ISP account name)
Incoming = yourdomain.com
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Microsoft
Outlook
Once you have installed MS Outlook, start it up and follow
these instructions:
1) Choose Tools..>Services from the menu
2) Click "Add", choose "Mail" and click
"Ok"
3) In the "General" tab of the email Properties
dialog box, fill in your personal information.
4) Click on the "Servers" tab, and fill in the
server information. The Outgoing Mail (SMTP) should be your
ISP (internet account). The incoming mail server should
be yourdomain.com. Put your
account username in the "account name field",
and account password in the "password" field below.
Click "OK".
5) Your new settings will not take effect until you choose
"Exit", Log off from the "File" menu,
and then restart Microsoft Outlook.
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To check numerous POP accounts, read the manuals or help
files that come with your email client software for configuration.
If you are familiar with the shell (Unix) programs, "pine"
and "mail", you can use either of these to check
and send email as well.
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