Webmail - giving access

[Nick_S]

Hi folks, I run a car owners forum, not yet transfered it yet from our terrible hosts to HostGator just yet, but one of the domains is hosted in anticipation and I am currently using mail from that domain clubaristo.net

Being a car forum, I have helpers, and want to give them their own clubaristo.net email address.

Now I can set this up fine, but a couple of them don't use outlook or anything like that and will need to use webmail, but when I've set this up for myself (i have 3 clubaristo.net email addresses) all of them are accessible through the one log in, doesn't matter if I use Horde, Squirrel or the other one I can't remember

I would have thought having yourname@yourwebsite.net and a password, you'd only get access to that one email account but it seems not.

Anyone know what I'm on about??

(this stuff isn't my bag, any help appreciated)

TIA

[GvilleRick]

You should be able to access the webmail from clubaristo.net/webmail. The username is the complete email address and the password is the one you created for the email account.

[Nick_S]

Nail - Head, thanks, seems so easy when you know how.

many thanks

[slapshotw]

Also webmail.hostgator.com will work if the interface above is blocked at their offices.

[Eric]

I've been using Google Apps for my email for quite some time now. Now that gmail is moving to IMAP (already available on all my accounts), it makes it that much better to use. It's pretty awesome and I'd recommend at least checking it out.

[Goddess Dix]

Originally Posted by Club Aristo

Being a car forum, I have helpers, and want to give them their own clubaristo.net email address.

probably the easiest way to do this is simply set up forwarders to emails the folks already use.

so for helper Joe, if you didn't make an email account, but set up a forwarder instead to joe@clubarsto.net, and made it forward to joe@hisotheremail.com, you would be able to give everybody their own email aliases that will work just like regular emails, but they won't have to check it seperately and you won't have any old email sitting in your account, taking up space.

[Pitrow]

Originally Posted by Goddess Dix

probably the easiest way to do this is simply set up forwarders to emails the folks already use.

so for helper Joe, if you didn't make an email account, but set up a forwarder instead to joe@clubarsto.net, and made it forward to joe@hisotheremail.com, you would be able to give everybody their own email aliases that will work just like regular emails, but they won't have to check it seperately and you won't have any old email sitting in your account, taking up space.

But... with that approach they won't be able to send out email from the clubarsto.net email address, only receive.

[ldearing]

Originally Posted by Pitrow

But... with that approach they won't be able to send out email from the clubarsto.net email address, only receive.

i think this depends on the email service they use....mine allows me to set up various "identities" so i can collect email in one place and can send "from" any of those identities

[Goddess Dix]

Originally Posted by ldearing

i think this depends on the email service they use....mine allows me to set up various "identities" so i can collect email in one place and can send "from" any of those identities

yeah, i was pretty sure they could send from the site emails if it's set up as a from/reply to in the email client, but i haven't had time to look it up.

[ldearing]

yes, i was actually thinking web mail...but i know outlook lets you change the "reply" to address so i figure other clients would to... i don't know about actually changeing "FROM" criteria in a local client....