IV. ARE YOU FAMILIAR WITH DIFFERENT TYPES OF E-MAIL ACCESS?

     

    Explanations:

     
    There are three main types of e-mail:
  • E-mail addresses with Internet Service Provider domain name,
  • Web-based e-mail, and
  • E-mail addresses with your domain name.
     
     
     

    First, of course, it is necessary to get a connection to the Internet. After that, you will have to opt for one of the three possibilities.

     

    E-mail Addresses with Internet Service Provider Domain Name:  Your Internet Service Provider can provide you with an e-mail address or a specified number of e-mail addresses for use within your company.  These addresses often contain the “domain name” of the Internet Service Provider.  For example, if you select Internet services from GTX, your e-mail address may be something like: yourname@GTX.com.

     
    To utilize your e-mail address, you will want to use an e-mail software package such as Eudora, GroupWise, or Outlook which serves essentially as a “user interface” to your e-mail, offering functionality such as buttons to click for sending, receiving, storing, and replying to e-mail messages.
     

    Web-Based E-mail Account:  A web-based e-mail account serves as an alternative to e-mail software.  Instead of receiving e-mail messages on your computer and checking them via your software, your messages are received on an Internet web site, which you can access via password.  Provided by free of charge companies like Hotmail and Yahoo, these accounts are helpful when traveling or in countries with a limited number of ISPs.  Since many companies discourage personal use of e-mail, and since most companies are allowed to read any correspondence sent using company equipment, web-based e-mail is often used to receive personal e-mail.

     
    As an alternative to web-based e-mail services, you may be able to obtain access to your company e-mail account when traveling, allowing you to view and respond to your messages from any computer with an Internet connection. If your Internet Service Provider does not offer this “pop server log-in number” so that you can read your e-mail when not at your computer, e-mail programs such as Eudora, GroupWise, Microsoft Outlook, and many others allow you to forward e-mails to a web-based account such as Excite, Hotmail, or Yahoo. 
     

    E-mail Addresses with Your Domain Name:  Your web space provider (sometimes the same company as your Internet Service Provider) can give you one or several e-mail addresses.  Unlike e-mail addresses supplied by simple Internet Service Providers who do not act as web space providers, these addresses will reflect your company's domain name.  For example, your web space provider can help you acquire both a web page address for your company and e-mail addresses reflecting that home page. Therefore, your e-mail address will look like this: Mr.Wujjoh@ABCCompany.com.