Here are some of the important team that is related to email and email hosting that you might come across when selecting, researching or setting up the email services for your organization or personal use.
Auto Responder: An autoresponder is a computer program that automatically answers e-mail sent to it. They can be very simple or quite complex — Autoresponder is often used as e-mail marketing tools to immediately provide information to their prospective customers and then follow up with them at preset time intervals.
Catch-All: It is a destined email address that gathers all emails (those without an already assigned email address) to your account.
IMAP: IMAP stands for Intent Message Access Protocol. It is a standard email protocol that stores email messages on a mail server but allows the end user to view and manipulate the messages as though they were stored locally on the end user’s computing device(s).
Mailing List: It is a group of contacts into a mailing list such that you can send the email to all of the recipients together. It is especially useful for bulk mailing for the businesses which has a huge group of customers. It is usually created for marketing message or product updates or business critical emails to clients.
POP 3: POP3 is a client/server protocol in which e-mail is received and held for you by your Internet server. Periodically, you (or your client e-mail receiver) check your mail-box on the server and download any mail, probably using POP3.
SMTP: It stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol and is an internet standard for email transmission. Generally, web hosts have no issues for their customers to send emails to their server.
Spam: Bulk mailing programs target their internet users to deliver the email in their inbox for promotions related to product and the services. Thus the email messages that are unsolicited messages intended especially for advertising. It is also known as Junk emails.
Webmail: A browser-based interface that allows sender and receiver of an email to send and receive the email obligating the need for the installation of any email software.
