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I understand that my host will handle e-mail hosting for me. This is my first website it is a product site, I wish to know what I must add to my site to enable me access the hosted mail hosted for me by my server. Is it that the host will give me information about a data base that I must access to display the site or what. In short, what will it take for me to have, view,and send e-mails. What server codes do I need?
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TRK3 12-Apr-12 16:16pm    
Please clarify your question.

If I read your question correctly, you have a website that is hosted by some hosting service which is also providing you with e-mail hosting.

Do you just want to access that e-mail account? (Then typically you just need to configure an email client to point to it -- most email clients will walk you throug it.)

Or do you want to add something to your website that permits customers to send you email?

The simplest way to do that is to add a link using the mailto:
scheme -- which works in most siturations as long as the user has an email client configured. There are more sophisticated ways to do it, but if you just provide the mailto: with your email address in a readable format, the user can contact you one way or the other. The downside of that is that webcrawlers could harvest that email and spam it, so you'll want a good spam filter on that email address, otherwise you'll want to go with a more sophisticated system with captcha's etc...
Gbenbam 14-Apr-12 9:39am    
I want to all authorised users to be able to access the e-mail account from my website. In short I want access online from my website just as is the case for yahoo, gmail and hotmail

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