| Email hosting used to dominate the web hosting | | | | messages you get according to pre-configured rules. |
| industry as the primary hosting service. As 3rd party | | | | What is spam filtering |
| email services such as Hotmail and Gmail become | | | | Spam used to be a major problem, but no more. |
| popular, there's no need to venture into self-help | | | | Modern spam recognition and filtering system can |
| email hosting any more. So email hosting is often | | | | successfully filter out 99% of spams out of your mail |
| provided as a supplementary service along with | | | | inbox. Spam filtering is thus simply a filter that free |
| website hosting. Here we address some of the most | | | | you from being bothered by spam mails. |
| common email hosting options for web hosting | | | | What are announcement lists |
| beginners to make informed decisions. | | | | Announcement lists are mail lists that can be |
| What are IMAP / POP / SMTP accesses | | | | subscribed to by visitors of your website. You can |
| SMTP is the protocol email servers abide by in | | | | send out mails such as announcements to those |
| sending email messages. There used to be public | | | | subscribers. Very useful in engaging with your visitors |
| SMTP servers that anyone can use to send out | | | | and follow them up after they have left your |
| emails in unlimited amounts. Soon the age of spam | | | | website. |
| comes and it almost dies out. Nowadays, you have | | | | What are discussion lists |
| to be authenticated to use an SMTP server to send | | | | Discussion lists are mail lists that people can subscribe |
| out emails. | | | | to and then receive discussion emails corresponded |
| IMAP and POP are the protocols for you to receive | | | | among all the subscribers. Each of the discussion list |
| emails. POP or POP3 servers are the most common | | | | subscribers can not only read the discussion emails |
| email server / service that enables the users to log | | | | from the others but also send out his or her own |
| on to read their emails. While IMAP shares essentially | | | | emails to be seen by all the other subscribers. It's like |
| the same functionalities such as email retrieval, IMAP | | | | a forum, but run in emails. |
| servers allow the users to operate on their email | | | | What are auto responders |
| accounts synchronously rather than asynchronously | | | | Auto-responders are not email lists because it |
| as with a POP server. | | | | contains no email addresses. It's simply a conditional |
| What is web-based email access | | | | responder that automatically sends out emails in |
| Web-based simply means the users can access their | | | | response to incoming messages. For example, you |
| email account via a website with a local browser. | | | | want to catch all emails sent to whatever email |
| Gmail is a typical web-based email service. 10 years | | | | @example.com, auto-responders can help you with |
| ago, quite some email servers allow only access via | | | | that by not missing a single message that is sent to |
| email clients such as Microsoft Outlook. | | | | and responding with the correct email address the |
| What is mail filtering | | | | original sender should follow instead. |
| Mail filtering is a technology to filter the mails | | | | |