Workshop – Hosting, Email Hosting and how it all works
Hi all,
We need to have a workshop about our hosting services and how they work. I have a client that wants to know how Host Gator (for example – could be bluehost too – handles email – for example, is there an easy pathway to check her email? Can you check host gator email on a mobile app?
These are questions I didn’t know the answer to – so it would be helpful to be more informed.
thanks.
juliette
Becky DeGrossa, 
Juan Villegas, and 
Juliette Cook are discussing.
Juan Villegas 9:53 pm on November 22, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply
All webhosts offer a webmail service, that works just like a gmail client: they give you an url where you enter username and password and log in to your mailbox.
If the webhost gives you the smtp server, you can always link your @domain.com account to outlook express or also gmail.
Juliette Cook 10:01 pm on November 22, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply
i am wondering how hostgator does it – specifically can a user get their hostgator email from their phone?
Becky DeGrossa 6:11 pm on November 24, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply
In my experience, none of the email interfaces that come from these hosting accounts are particularly user-friendly. In addition, they have to go to another place to see their email.
My suggestion would be that all of our clients have some friendlier email — usually one they’re already using — such as gmail, yahoo, etc. and that we forward their name@sitename.com email to them at their gmail/yahoo id.
All of you PCs are doing this already. You all have either a page1pros.org id or a counselingwise.com id and we forward your email to your gmail id. You can tell what is “work” related email compared to personal email, and you can respond to or author emails from your “work” id.
Juan Villegas 10:30 pm on November 23, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply
take a look at: http://support.hostgator.com/articles/specialized-help/email/setting-up-email-for-the-apple-iphone
basically, they give you the configuration parameters and you use the Mail program in your ithing (iphone, ipad, etc) or even in your desktop client (outlook, thunderbird..)