How to use e-mail Forwarding and Autoresponders?
E-mail forwarding is the most effective way to recieve email address sent to multiple addresses without creating multiple POP3 e-mail accounts. The most common redirects are webmaster@yourdomain.com,sales@yourdomain.com,support@yourdomain.com, info@yourdomain.com etc. You can use your control panel features to create redirect for these or other addresses and send all the mails to addresses delivered to POP3 accounts of your choice. This is an most easy way to send emails to several members of your company which avoids hassle of creating and monitoring multiple accounts in yur email client.
Autoresponders is a method of automatically replying to an email with information. Using autoresponder with a redirect would allow you to capture rmail adress of the person requesting information. You can also use CGI email form in combination with an auto responder and a redirect to capture more detailed information about the requestor.
E-mail forwarding and autoresponders can be of great help if configured correctly. However, a small mistake in configuration may result in problems affecting all mail delivery associated with your account. Read the manuals before using this features.
Configuration errors that encounter include:
a.Incorrect “default” redirect
The first entry in e-mail forward list should be “default” followed by the primary account login (e.g., yourdomain@yourdomain.com).
b. Incorrect naming
Redirects and autoresponders must not share the same name as a POP3 user or a maillist.
paul said,
October 26, 2007 @ 10:03 am
If your purpose to send a series of messages I think it is better to use a mailing list or newsletter instead of autoresponder.
jc8654 said,
October 27, 2007 @ 3:14 pm
Email forwarding is useful if you have several people who need to know what’s going on e.g. admin emails. I do this with my business partner so we both know if the server goes down, any bills come in etc. but we know for financial things who is dealing with them.
If you want to send an email to many people, mailing lists are often better. Some of these can use an email as input while others use a website interface. If using an email as input, the main advantage of a mailing list over email-forwarding is you can restrict who can post to the list and you can also set moderators to check only correct information is sent out to those people.