POP3 basics:
Netmar provides POP3 access to all its customers.
POP3 access is for mail delivery to you, from our systems.
E-mail is not a two-way system, all mail transactions are circular.
In simple terms, there are two types of servers where e-mail is involved:
Incoming (POP3) servers and outgoing (SMTP) servers. When you receive
mail in your mail client program (Outlook, Eudora, etc), you are receiving
mail from a POP3 server. When you send mail, you will be connected to
an SMTP server, and your mail will go out from your computer, via the
SMTP server.
Note: Netmar does not offer SMTP access. We do not offer
an outgoing mail server for user's use. There is no SMTP access with
Netmar.
We do not offer SMTP access for a variety of reasons, but the most important
one of these is the potential for spam abuse. In addition, almost all
ISP's provide access to their SMTP servers; we encourage you to use
your ISP's SMTP servers, as the ISP's do. Many ISP's don't allow outbound
port 25 (mail smtp) access outside of the network.
There is no way to know which providers will allow outbound SMTP access.
Keeping a list would be impossible, as it would be ever changing as
well as differing inside the same ISP, based on locale.
Setting up your POP3 account:
In this section, we will look at how to set up a POP3 account using
Microsoft Outlook Express. If you would like to see the setup of another
e-mail client, you may see Outlook (not Express)
here, or Eudora Mail here. Please note, however,
that the Outlook Express setup is the most comprehensive of the three;
I strongly suggest you read it in addition to any other mail
client setup instructions. The version of Outlook Express in these screen
shots is version 6 (the one that comes with Windows XP), but the basic
account setup has changed little since the days of Windows 98. Outlook
Express is the e-mail client of choice because it has been included
with Windows for years.
First, open Outlook. If you have not used it before, you will be prompted
by the first screen you see here. If you have used it before, and you
need to create an additional account. This can be done by going to Tools
-> Accounts. On this screen, you would click Add -> Mail.
You will see:
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your name as you would like it to appear in the from section of
the e-mail that you will write. |
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This
is the e-mail address which you want people to reply to. It can
be (and is encouraged to be) an e-mail address in your ".aliasmap"
file. This is set arbitrarily, it does NOT have to be your
Netmar e-mail address. |
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this window, you will set up your mail servers. In order to download
mail from Netmar, you will set your POP3 server as login.netmar.com.
This next step is *very* important. Set your SMTP (outgoing)
mail server to your ISP's SMTP server. Netmar does not provide
SMTP service, and many ISP's do not allow it. Your ISP's mails server
is most often mail.isp-name.com. Contact them if in doubt. |
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In
this screen, you will be asked for your username and password. You
will enter your Netmar username and password, the same ones that
you use to log in via command line or into the control panel. This
is your NETMAR username and password. Receiving mail requires username
and password, sending mail through SMTP does not. |
An example of an
ISP's outgoing mail server would be: mail.roadrunner.com, smtp.comcast.net,
smtp.wisc.edu, etc. Some ISP's have an alias in their networks to have
all requests sent to "mail" forwarded to the right computer,
so using "mail" for your mail server, instead of "mail.isp.com"
may also work.
Requesting additional
POP3 accounts:
Users
may request, via e-mail, additional POP3 accounts for their account.
These accounts will be set up as follows:
Netmar will essentially create you additional usernames. These usernames
will be in the form acctnum-number. For example, if you account
number is 11632, your first additional POP3 box will be
11632-1@netmar.com, your second would be 11632-2@netmar.com.
Each of these will have a unique password. When you set up a program
such as outlook express to receive e-mail from one of these accessory
accounts, you will set it up in the following way:
Name: your name, same as above.
E-mail address: your e-mail address that you want them to reply to.
NOTE: this is the same as above. When
people reply to an e-mail you send,
they will send e-mail this address.
Servers: These should be set up, same as above.
Username and Password: *These are different - you will use your account-number-based
username,
i.e. 11632-1 for the username,
and the corresponding password for that username.
E-mail sent by you that is
replied to will still be sent to the e-mail address you specified
in the 2nd phase.
Then: in your ".aliasmap" file, you will alias e-mail@yourdomain.com
to 11632-1@netmar.com.
For example:
Jane, Bill, and Tom work for abcdomain.com. They all need POP3 accounts.
Their account number is 11632, and their username is abcd. They would
set up their e-mail like this:
In the .aliasmap file:
jane@abcdomain.com:11632-1@netmar.com
bill@abcdomain.com:11632-2@netmar.com
tom@abcdomain.com:11632-3@netmar.com
*@abcdomain.com:abcd@netmar.com
In the .forward file:
tom-abcdomain@bellatlantic.net
Remember, if there is an e-mail address in the .forward file, all mail
sent to username (in this case abcd@netmar.com) will be sent
to that e-mail address. In this scenario, e-mail sent to jane@abcdomain.com
will forward to 11632-1@netmar.com, and so on, with all e-mail not to
sent to jane, bill, or tom @abcdomain.com being "caught" by
the *@abcdomain.com listing and sent to abcd@netmar.com, which forwards
to tom's Bell Atlantic account at home.
Now: Jane will set up outlook express so that her return e-mail address
is jane@abcdomain.com, and she will put in 11632-1 as her username,
and use the corresponding password. In this fashion, we can follow an
e-mail:
Customer sends jane an e-mail at jane@abcdomain.com. This e-mail is
forwarded to jane's POP3 box, which is 11632-1, where she (using login.netmar.com
as her pop server) checks it via outlook express. She decides to reply
to the e-mail. When she sends the e-mail reply to the customer, it exits
her network via her internet provider's SMTP server (we'll say mail.bellatlantic.com).
From there, it is sent to the customer. The customer reads the e-mail
and decides to reply to it. When the customer hits reply, the e-mail
is sent to the e-mail address that Jane specified when she setup outlook
express, which is jane@abcdomain.com, and the cycle starts again.
Setting up other E-mail clients:
Microsoft Outlook (not Express):
When prompted to indicate whether or not you'd like to configure an
e-mail account, select yes.
The type of account you are creating is POP3, select POP3.
Fill in the information shown below, replacing the sample information
with information that relates to you.
Eudora Mail
Eudora is an excellent free mail program, and is very popular.
You can read about and download it here.
To set Eudora up, open the program. When the wizard pops up, select
"skip directly to advanced setup" and click next, which will
close the window.
In the side bar on the left of the window, click on the two-faces tab
in the lower right. You will see <dominant>. Right click and go
to properties.
Set up the following screens as follows, replacing the information with
your own at the appropriate places.
You will be prompted for a password on the first connection.
