Hi,

I am setting up an informational website so clients can contact me to do research for them. It will be a small site but I have one priority, I want the email address to not have the hosts name at the end. I just want steve@myname.com on incoming and outgoing mail. Is that a problem with the cheap sites? Any recommendations? Most site show pop mail only does that mean I am going to have a the hosts name on the end? I also dont want any ads or Tagline on the site or in my email.

Appreciate the help! I am totally clueless

Steve

nearly all paid hosts have no ads or banners etc there may be a few who do but they are rare.
If you have a domain name and POP3 boxes the email addresses will be you@yourdomain.com,

Hope this helps
:)

Steve,

If you have registered a "domain name", for example "YOURDOMAIN.COM", and then hosted this with a webhosting company then your email addresses will be "yourname@yourdomain.com". All web-hosts will let you do this, providing you have a domain. The "POP" server is often something like"pop.hostingcompany.com" but it has no bearing on what your email address format looks like.

As you are paying for the hosting, I don't think any hosting company would put their taglines on your emails. By the way, if you haven't got a domain name, then there are certain hosting companies that do email hosting only, they buy a .com for you and host email services only. These are quite cheap :-D I'd pop a request in the "Web Hosting Request" forum if I was you!

Hope that helps!

When I read the Yahoo site I get the impression that only their 19.95 per month site will give you sent emails without their name tacked on the end. I got the impression that I needed and "smtp" protocal?

If I just go with a 10.00 a month site am I getting my own email addresses. Or am I going to cheap?

Thanks

Steve

Steve,

I have a webhosting account which charges £60 (rounded figure) a year!! That works out to £5 a month, and with that I get unlimited mySQL, unlimited POP3 mailboxes e.t.c. So paying for email services at $10.00 a month sounds a bit too much to me.... try asking in the request forums like I said, i'm sure you'll get it much cheaper in there.

Hey Steve,

This was stated quite well earlier. Every single webhosting provider that I know of provides the service that you are talking about. With a web host, you will generally be given the capability (among other things) to create multiple e-mail boxes (POP3 accounts) which will store incoming e-mail until you access it with a mail program, such as Eudora or Outlook. The SMTP server is a "gateway" used by your e-mail program to send outgoing e-mail messages. The address of the STMP server does not affect your e-mail address in the "from" line.

If you register a domain name and open an account with a web hosting provider, you will generally be given access to a “control panel” which is a special website that will allow you to create your e-mail addresses. Most likely, you can have more than one address so you could create different e-mail addresses for others (employees, family members, etc).

Best regards,
Frank Rietta

POP mail means you may check your email from an email client, such as Outlook or Eudora. Webmail, is when you can check your email through your browser, as you would a hotmail or yahoo email account. If you are paying for a host, then you should be able to have your own email accounts at you domain.