Health Checkup for Your Business Email

I strongly recommend that my business clients periodically check the health status of their business email accounts (i.e., [email protected]).

If you forward your business email to another account (especially to Gmail, Yahoo, or Hotmail), periodically check the actual email account to make sure that forwarded email is not filtered or lost as spam.

You can check most mail accounts at http://yourdomainname.com/webmail, by logging in with your email address and password. To change or reset your password on a cpanel account, go to http://yourdomainname.com/cpanel; contact me for details.

I recommend the Horde email reader (this will make sense after you are logged in to webmail:

If you forward your business email to Gmail, Yahoo, or Hotmail, I strongly recommend that you set up a mail fetch, to download email directly into your account; click here for more information on mail fetch setup using these providers.

If you use Outlook, Eudora, or Thunderbird to access your business email, then you are already using best practices for checking your business email – good job! If not, consider making this transition; see email setup for High Peaks Media account holders, or contact me for help.

If you are receiving an inordinate amount of email spam, please contact me for recommendations on how to cut this out!

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