Basic CPanel Interface Features | Part 4
Basic CPanel Interface Features
5. Mailing Lists
A mailing list is a set of subscribers’ names and their email addresses, and it is usually grouped defined by the mailing list creator for specific purposes. Such mailing lists make it very easy to send specific notifications or specific information to a group of subscribers at once. The purpose of a mailing list can be sending out surveys, information about upcoming products or services, an important notification to remind those members about an important upcoming event, or even sending out greetings and simple messages to a list of customers, or fans, or members who have signed in and agreed to receive emails from you. The mailing lists are also used to send mass mail out publications, newsletters, periodicals, updates, and so on to a select group of members.
In cPanel’s Mailing Lists, you can easily create, add or edit a group of subscribers’ names and their email addresses. With the mailing lists, the advantage is in avoiding the need to type each and every address separately while sending a message to the group. You should add a list name and the domain name it will be used. These lists can be deleted if they are not required or their purpose is fulfilled. But when you delete a mailing list, you will lose all the very important details about the names and email addresses contained within that mailing list. You can modify any list that has been created previously, and you can also change the passwords associated to that particular mailing list.
Mailing lists are very important business and marketing tools which help in marketing and selling your products or services to a large group of subscribers. A good and targeted mailing list can help create many advertising, marketing, and sales opportunities for any organization, and hence it is one of the chief components or features of the cPanel. Mailing lists feature is thus an exciting and a major professional tool which is made available with cPanel.
6. Mailboxes (SMTP / POP3)
The ability to create multiple e-mail accounts for your company with ease is the major hallmark of cPanel. For every website that you create on your web hosting account, you can create multiple of email accounts such as, accounts@domain.com, support@domain.com, info@domain.com, sales@domain.com, and so on. With the creation of the email accounts, you can communicate with any body, i.e., send emails to anyone. Others can reach your specific departments with the above-mentioned emails. They help organize the entire communications of the website with the outside world.
POP3, IMAP, and SMTP are Post office Protocol, Internet Message Access Protocol, and Simple Mail Transfer Protocol respectively. They have specific functions to perform. To check your emails, Webmail enables you to gain access to your e-mail through virtually any computer which has an Internet connection along with a web browser. But you should also ensure that you log out after checking out your e-mail while using any public computer to ensure that others are not able to go through your email later.
As the mailing lists, the mailboxes are extremely important tools to help you communicate with the world electronically through emails. There are lot many easy to use functions available with this important section of the cPanel which undoubtedly make cPanel the top cheap web hosting control panel.
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