I remember when internet email addresses first became widely available. I always felt bad for those poor CompuServe users who had a long number instead of a standard username! Since then, email has become an essential means of communication for anyone who uses a computer. It's very likely that you already have at least one email address (and maybe several!).
Sure, you get an email address from your Internet Service Provider (ISP). And, you can get a variety of free email addresses from a number of websites. But are you able to pick the email address you want to have? Are you tired of using that same email address that includes your high school graduation date? Can you access your email through both POP3 clients (like Outlook) and a first-class Webmail application? Does your email provide comprehensive phishing and virus protection, as well as spam filtering?
YourChurchWeb.net offers a variety of email solutions that offer all that and much more!
For starters, you'll get a minimum of 500 (10MB) email addresses with every hosting purchase, and 1 (25MB) address with each domain purchase, transfer, or renewal. In addition, you can purchase either our Deluxe or Premium plans, which allow you to divide 1GB of disk space among 5 addresses, or 2GB among 100 addresses, respectively.
Every email account features virus protection and spam filtering. You'll need to have a domain name to use with your email, but that means you have complete control over your personalized, easy-to-remember address. By matching your email addresses with your website domain, you continually remind people of the existence of your website. Our email addresses can be accessed through popular POP3 clients like Outlook, Outlook Express, Mozilla Thunderbird, Microsoft Entourage, Apple Mail, or Evolution. You can also access your email from any internet-connected computer using our popular
Web-Based Email.
Web-Based Email (WBE) lets you do just about everything your POP3 email client does. (To be honest with you, since April 2006 when I set up my 200MB WBE account, I haven't even used Microsoft Outlook). You can store your address book, inbox, and sent mail online--accessible from any computer. Powerful search features allow you to find any email message quickly, and an intuitive filing system helps you save the messages that are important to you. You can setup mailing lists, schedule message delivery, and even send greeting cards right from WBE.
One of the best features of WBE (in my opinion) is the ability to check your other POP3 email addresses at the click of a button. Instead of taking time to log into multiple email addresses, you can check them all at once and have them automatically delivered to a separate folder. Automatic filtering allows you to create rules to sort your incoming email. And, the ability to manage multiple identities from one WBE account allows you to also send using multiple email addresses.
Let me caution you to not expect to use some of these advanced features with the free 10MB accounts that you get with your hosting account. While the features are available, you may find it difficult to stay within the 10MB size limit. If you're using our free email addresses, I recommend using a POP3 client to regularly download your mail (and be sure not to check the box to "leave a copy of messages on server"), otherwise you will quickly fill your available space. However, even with a 10MB box, you can check your email from the road and stay in touch with church and family members.
So, what do you need for email? Most clients will be satisfied with the 501 free email addresses that come with their domain and hosting purchases. You can give the 25MB box to your pastor, give email addresses to every department head, set up a prayer chain, give a few to some church member or teenagers, and still have plenty left over.
However, if you spend a lot of time travelling, regularly work on multiple computers, want to store a lot of email on the server, or want to be able to manage several addresses from a single interface--you might want to consider purchasing one of our extended plans.
As always, let me know if you have any questions about what to choose--send me an email at
sales@yourchurchweb.net. (You know I'll be using my Web-Based Email to check it!)
Grace and Peace,
Jonathan Twitchell
YourChurchWeb.net
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