Your e-mail address is very important aspect in business as it indicates the professionalism and reliability of your company. There are a lot of cases when a business owner doesn’t like the webmail offered by dedicated server and changes it for such popular mail providers as Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail.
But displaying these e-mail addresses on business card or web site demonstrates the lack of professionalism. So, this may make customers look for more credible and reputable source.
Fortunately, there is a perfect solution – email forwarding. As most webmasters prefer to answer e-mails in comfortable environment, they have this option included in the dedicated hosting plan.
What Is Email Forwarding?
Email forwarding represents the process of resending e-mail massages sent on one address to another address or a group of addresses. You can meet two types of e-mail forwarding – server-based forwarding and client-based forwarding. So, what is the difference?
Server-based forwarding is designed to send message to the target server which name is to the right of @ symbol within an e-mail address. Client-based forwarding has two types – automated and manual forwarding.
To forward the massage form one account to another automated client-based forwarding u non-interactive piece of software. Mail retrieval is an example of such kind of forwarding.
Manual client-based forwarding implies that end-user forwards a message manually using an e-mail client. Original text and other attachments are also forwarded with this message.
Mail Forwarding Process
It should be observed that email forwarding is very easy process that won’t take two minutes to be set up on your control panel. The most popular hosting providers are Microsoft Outlook and Gmail because they offer easy to use interface.
Before getting started Microsoft Outlook requires login details as well as port ans server information. Gmail offers you more easy access, it just requires your username and password.
Virtual Users
Virtual users are end-users who never log on to the mail server and access their account via remote client. They don’t have to login as they can configure their mail server client to forward messages automatically.
Email forwarding is very useful tool which allows users to access their e-mail thanks to comfortable settings increasing productivity. As the popularity of e-mail forwarding is persistently growing, the process promises to become easier in future.