Email Forwarding

Email has become one of the most important forms of communication, especially in the world of online businesses and websites. Many people have more than one email account, and keeping up with email can be very time consuming. Tools like email forwarding and auto responders can make handling your email a lot easier. Though these tools aren't necessary for running your web site, many web hosts offer them as a way to make managing your site and your email a little more convenient.

Email forwarding

Email forwarding is where email addressed to one of your email accounts is automatically sent to another of your email addresses. This is kind of like when you move and the post office forwards mail sent to your old address to your new one. This means if you have a special email account that is addressed to you at your website, like webmaster@yoursite.com, you can have it forwarded to your regular email address. With email forwarding, you save time because you only have to check one email account to read your email from both accounts. Another advantage of email forwarding is that visitors to your website only see your website email address, so you don't have to post your personal email address on the Internet, but you can still have all your email sent to just one email account.

Auto responders

Auto responders or autoresponders are programs that send pre-written email messages automatically in response to emails sent to a specific account. So, if someone sends an order to your email account, sales@yoursite.com, the autoresponder program sends an automatic response that you created ahead of time, like, "Thank you for your order. It is being processed and will be sent out in 3-5 business days." It can also be used to let someone know that you are out of town and won't be responding for a week, or that you are aware of a problem on your website and are working to fix it. This lets customers and visitors to your website get a quick response from you without requiring you to spend all your time checking and answering email.

Some websites also use autoresponders to send regular messages to people who sign up for their email lists. For instance, if you run a business online, you can use an autoresponder to send a message each quarter to customers on your mailing list to remind them about sales or share tips and advice. Or, for this article has all rights reserved and is copyright by 100 Best another example, if your website is devoted to a political or social cause, you can send notifications to your subscribers to keep them updated about important issues.

Email forwarding and autoresponders are two email tools that are offered by many web hosts. They can save you time and make using email even more convenient. If you think these email tools would be helpful to your website, look for web hosts that offer these programs as part of their services.