About Your Email Addresses
There are a few things you will need to consider while planning to take advantage of an Option Line eXtend web site package. Your answer to the following question will help you identify what issues you'lll need to address regarding email accounts.
Does your center already have a web site name (domain name) that you plan to use for your new Option Line e-Xtend web site?
NO
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Great! This will make it easy to establish your new e-Xtend web site. Since you do not have an existing web site you won't need to be concerned about migrating your existing email accounts to the new web site host used by e-Xtend.
You'll need to identify all email accounts that you want for your center (up to the limit associated with the web site package you have selected.)
Email accounts come in two varieties:
- a REAL email account is one that you'll be able to access by using a program on your computer such as Microsoft Outlook. You can also access a REAL
email account from the web by pointing your web browser to an address like, as an example, http://mail.myCentersWebSite.com. Note, this web address is an example -- not a real web mail site.
- an email alias is an email address that simply redirects email to a REAL email account. For example, let's say that you already have a personal email account, something like JaneSmith@aol.com. But you don't want to have JaneSmith@aol.com displayed on your center's web site. And, it is less professional to have a personal email account used for a center's purposes. So, instead, you can have e-Xtend create an email alias, to follow our example so far, like JaneSmith@MyCentersWebSite.com.
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YES
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Wonderful! You already have experience with web sites and email accounts. We can leverage your experience and your existing domain name and email accounts. After you have selected the Option Line e-Xtend web site package and before launching your new site we'll work together to migrate your web site name (domain name) and email accounts to the new e-Xtend web site.
It is important that you understand the timing and steps involved in the migration.
Here are the steps involved:
- Locate and document the company that you or one of your representatives has purchased your web site name (domain name) from. That company is known as a Domain Registrar. Examples are Godaddy.com and NetworkSolutions.com, among many others. Along with the Domain Registrar company name you'll also need to know what the UserName and Password are to access the web site that allows you, as the owner of the domain name, to control various aspects of your domain name.
- Identify the various means that all of your current staff uses to access their email accounts that are associated with your domain name. You will probably find that some of your staff use a web site (web mail) to access their accounts while other use a program, like Microsoft Outlook, to read and send email.
- Create a list of all people that have email accounts along with the way that they access their email. Also, you will need to identify and document any email Aliases that you are using.
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