POP3 mailboxes

What is a POP3 mailbox?

When you purchase hosting as a retail customer from Purplenames you are provided with 5 free POP3 mailboxes included in the price. A POP3 mailbox is a specified email address that you can set up in your email client and use to send and receive email. So, if you registered mydomain.com, you can set up a POP3 mailbox called myname@mydomain.com, set this account up in your email client, and use this email address to send and receive email.

Setting up your POP3 mailboxes?

Upon confirmation of your domain and hosting purchase from Purplenames, you may set up your 5 free POP3 mailboxes via your control panel. When you access your control panel you will be able to see any existing POP3 mailboxes, add new POP3 mailboxes and purchase additional POP3 mailboxes should you require more than 5.

Once you have entered your desired POP3 email addresses and submitted your request, we will contact you via email with your POP3 mailbox username, password and POP3 incoming server details. For instance, if you request the POP3 email addressmyname@mydomain.com, we will provide you with the following:

Username: myname@mydomain.com (this is always the full email address)
Password: this will be unique to each email address
POP3 incoming server: mail.mydomain.com
SMTP outgoing server: provided by your ISP

When you use this email address to send and receive, all incoming mail will be pulled from our POP3 incoming mail server while all outgoing mail must go through the SMTP outgoing server of your ISP because they are your dial up connection. With most ISP’s you receive free email addresses when you register for their service so by examining any existing email accounts you should be able to find out the SMTP outgoing server of your ISP. Alternatively, you can contact your ISP for this information.

This is an example of how to set up your new email account if you use Microsoft Outlook as your email client. First, open Outlook. Then select the Tools menu, then Accounts. You will be presented with a dialog box, click Add-Mail to start the wizard for setting up a new account. You will be prompted to enter in a display name that all your email recipients will see when you send email. Enter the name you want them to see and click Next. You will be asked to enter the email address you wish to set up, once this is done click Next. You will be prompted to enter the Email Server Names, make sure you choose POP3 where asked “My incoming mail server is a…”. Then enter in the POP3 incoming server details that Purplenames have provided and enter in the SMTP outgoing server details of your ISP and click Next. You will then be prompted to enter the Username and Password provided by Purplenames, then click Next. You will be notified that you have successfully set up the account by the dialog box and click Finish to complete the set up. You should now be able to send and receive email using this new email address.

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