Hi there,

As I am becoming more and more familiar with how DNS, email servers, POP, SMTP and all that works I am beginning to realize that there is really no need for the 25-100 POP emails that so many hosters offer.

There seems to be only a need for ONE. Which receives emails from however many aliases (forwards) one wants to create. In turn an email client like Eudora picks up from the ONE POP box and filters it into different folders for ease of sorting and reading.

Does this make sense?

The only reason I can think of for needing more than ONE POP box is if one wants to have different people receiving and retrieving emails privately. With seperate user names and passwords for each POP box used. One to a person.

I am beginning to realize that many hosters also seem to make their plans appear to offer better value by offering multiples of this or that feature. Like mySQL databases. Most people only seem to need ONE POP box and ONE mySQL database. The extras just go to waste.

Any comments on the above?

Thanks.

Carlos

You are more or less correct.

By the way, hosters really HAVE to offer it. Because if they dont, then they look like less features. It is no different then people really over estimating bandwidth, like when they say they want 30 gigs and all they need is 100 megs. no matter what they use, they will want the package with the most

But if you take my little hosting outfit, there is a team of 3 people in Coimbatore , India [a town 550 km from where I am Madras] who need to receive emails at valai.net;

and then there is my lazy brother in Singapore [who is a Solaris admin and pitches in for admin support now and then] and then me at Madras and then there is my paypal email id ...

so 1 pop may not be sufficient at all.

I have small medium enterprises as email hosting customers and all they need is 20 mailboxes with 50megs of storage each, because these are travelling executives and need their office douments [like proposals or ppt's] available anywhere at a pinch

I guess it's all a question of your needs and then your wants!

cheers
balaji

Hi there,

Boy goes to show you how little one can really know about who one is communicating with over the Internet and how impressions can be so off.

I would have never, ever guessed that you were working out of India Motley.

Maybe this stuff I hear about so many companies making use of Indian IT people is more true than I thought.

It would be interesting for me to read a book on how to work over the Internet from different countries in the world while making it seem that one is based in someplace like the U.S. The practicals of it.

Anyway thanks for your input.

Carlos

Originally posted by Carlos123

The only reason I can think of for needing more than ONE POP box is if one wants to have different people receiving and retrieving emails privately. With seperate user names and passwords for each POP box used. One to a person.



That's exactly the whole point of multiple POPs.

-Bob

Originally posted by Carlos123
Most people only seem to need ONE POP box and ONE mySQL database. [/B]

What?!?! :D

Heck... I have 3 email accounts dedicated purley for receiving spam. So I can signup for some webservice I'll just use once and forget about... Yeah... They receive upwards to 200+ emails a day... But, I don't read it... I just have a script to DL & Delete of my server...

I also have about 8 databases.... Different projects and different sites testing different software...

He said most people, not everyone :)