Cloud or shared hosting offers greater redundancy, reliability and overall performance than a dedicated server. Our shared email hosting environment has been optimized for email and includes server clustering, load balancers, NetApp raid array file server storage and nightly snapshot backups.
1. Sign up for email hosting online. 2. Using the web based admin panel, add your email accounts and configure aliases and forwards as needed. For domain aliases, contact Greatmail support. Generally, during normal business hours, your administration panel should be ready and functional within 2 hours of completing step 1. 3. Add new account connections to your mail … Read more
Most ISPs do not allow you to connect to third party SMTP servers through port 25. For this reason, we recommend you use port 2500 to connect to our SMTP server with username and password based SMTP authentication. If for some reason, you cannot use port 2500, please contact us for alternate SMTP port numbers.
Yes, in order to connect to our outgoing servers to send messages, you must use SMTP authentication to connect to the server. In your mail client or mobile device settings, you should specify that your outgoing mail server requires authentication using the same settings as the incoming mail server, i.e., your full email address and … Read more
Webmail for email hosting clients is accessible at: http://webmail.greatmail.com
Yes, email hosting includes nightly snapshot backups.
No, email hosting does not include a mailing list management tool. For small distributions, however, you can create mail forward accounts to distribute messages to groups of recipients. This can be useful in sending internal messages to segments or your entire group. For email marketing, we recommend our Campaign Manager service which allows you to manage email … Read more
Aliases are variations of an email address associated with a primary email account. Messages addressed to the alias address are delivered to the primary email account. For example, if the following: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] are defined as aliases to: [email protected] then messages addressed to any of the above 4 addresses will be delivered to [email protected]. … Read more
Greatmail offers “pay as you go” monthly automatic recurring billing by credit card. For established account holders, we can issue annual invoices and accept annual payments by check.
No, domain name registration is not included with email hosting. If you would like Greatmail to register or renew a domain name registration, the cost is $24.95 per year.