Setting up emails for domain in VPS

[londoner]

Hi,
I hope this is easy: can someone to me (or point to information) how to set up emails for a domain in VSP? I have looked at the tutorials, but none seem to be helpful.
Thanks.

[Rock]

Originally Posted by londoner

Hi,
I hope this is easy: can someone to me (or point to information) how to set up emails for a domain in VSP? I have looked at the tutorials, but none seem to be helpful.
Thanks.

Hi, do you have a control panel installed on your VPS, such as cPanel/Plesk/etc? Or is it a plain one [non-control panel VPS]?
We can provide you with the exact steps to create email account on both these instances

[londoner]

Rock,
Thanks for reply. I do have cPanel, and have set up my first email. I have chosen the option EMAP so that I can access the emails to the website via Outlook. However, Outlook is showing errors. I know questions on Outlook is not exactly within the scope of this site, but what is the best method of setting up Outlook for receiving emails via EMAP?
Thanks.

[-Anti-]

> I have chosen the option EMAP so that I can access the emails to the website via Outlook

That statement doesn't sound like you know what IMAP does. Unless you know what IMAP is, why you'd need it, how to use it, and are familiar with the IMAP bugs Outlook has, I would forget it and recreate the account as pop3. It is much easier to use and much more stable.

EDIT:

> and are familiar with the IMAP bugs Outlook has

Seriously. I couldn't find an email client which worked properly with IMAP (I tried Outlook, The Bat, Eudora, Thunderbird, and Opera M2). In all clients the flagging, downloading, uploading and deleting of email and email headers became out of sync very quickly. You really need to know what you're doing, firstly in order to recognise which problems are occurring, and then secondly to get all the mail cleaned up and synchronised again (which may require manually editing email files on the server). Also the danger of having email accidentally automatically deleted is higher.

[eUKShane]

Hello,

If you are talking about IMAP then, let me tell you the exact difference between POP and IMAP mail servers.

Well, POP downloads all your email messages from the email server to your computer and store on the hard drive. Most programs have the option to keep the messages on the server for x number of days but sooner or later the messages are removed from the server. Also, with POP your outgoing emails are kept locally on your hard drive which leads to the familiar and annoying situation where you have different emails on each computer that you use to check email: home, office, work, etc.

Where IMAP keeps all email messages on the server and never removes. In most cases your email application creates a local cache of messages on your hard drive to speed up the opening of emails, but the originals are not touched. Also, with IMAP (this is the big one!) your sent mail and drafts are uploaded to the server! Because of this, you will see the same incoming and sent messages from any computer as long as your mail program is configured for IMAP. POP3 does not have this functionality.

Since IMAP is an internet standard and the emails are stored on the server it's easy to switch between email programs and operating systems.

So, you can choose convenient option for you. If you can forward us the exact outlook error you are getting then we will suggest you the solution.