Quite often your webmail account provided with your website hosting might not have the functionality you need to use it for day to day emailing. It’s might be great for accessing your emails when on holidays or away from your computer/office but you wouldn’t want it to be your permanent “inbox”.
It’s just not MS Outlook after all. On top of that, it’s not likely that your hosting account allows for unlimited storage space for all your emails. If you have a lot of emails (that you don’t delete) and especially if they contain large attachments, you could well be bursting your “quota” very quickly
In Comes Gmail. 15 GB of space to play with and a friendly interface that helps you organise your emails well (learn how to use “labels” instead of folders). If you’re a power user of Outlook it might not cut the mustard but for general day to day use, it does just fine.“But,” I hear you say, “Haven’t you always said not to use free email accounts when you have your own domain name because it doesn’t promote your brand and looks unprofessional?” Yes indeed, you’ve got the message right. You can use Gmail for your email and still send and receive from if you set it up correctly and with a bit of help from Gmail’s Mail Fetcher.Disclaimer: This will not work unless your hosting company provides POP3 email accounts. If your website is hosted by us, Technology Matters, then this comes as standard.
Gmail will now be checking your POP3 account every 2 or 3 minutes and moving the emails into Gmail for you.
Note: If you have a lot of emails stored under webmail and they were sorted into folders, Gmail will not import the emails that are in folders until they are moved into the main body of the inbox. You might like to do this in batches so you can label the incoming emails appropriately. If you are having any problems getting the “send” address to work as it should, have a look at this help page from Google.
I'm adding these details for anybody that may want them, but also as a reminder for myself, as finding this details on the one.com website is impossible and support is generally slow.
Upon checking with one.com, the 1st step of cancelling the web space, doesn't cancel immediately, it cancels the renewal
A challenging website for us that will evolve in the future to include a shop & other goodies
Currently has an course booking system, online e learining system & lots of information about there excellent Trauma courses
New You is a sister company of Dermakurve, another site we have created. Due to their success in the UK, Dermakurve have expanded to Kenya, under the name "New You".
They wanted a 1 Page design fell, with large images & a very visual feel, that would look greta on desktop & mobile devices