San Jose IBM PC Club E-mail Services
SJPC E-Mail Services
How is SJPC's E-Mail Service Different?
E-Mail Protocols - POP and IMAP
SJPC E-mail Services
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You can get your SJPC mail 4 different ways...
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With a graphical mail program like Netscape Messenger, Eudora, or MS Outlook
Express - most members use this way. Here's how
to set them up.
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With your web browser, using SJPC's web
mail - handy while away from home
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With Pine from secure shell - for command-line fans
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At another e-mail address - e-mail sent to you at sjpc.org can be forwarded.
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Mail sent to your sjpc.org account can be forwarded or copied to
other e-mail addresses. For example, mail sent to president@sjpc.org
goes to the president's account at sjpc.org and to his AOL account.
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Your e-mail address can have aliases. For example, sysop and
band_webmaster are aliases for SJPC mail account baker. Mail sent
to sysop@sjpc.org and band_webmaster@sjpc.org go into the baker@sjpc.org
mailbox.
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You can have multiple accounts at sjpc.org.
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Your spouse and children can have accounts at sjpc.org
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Your sjpc.org account can be an alternate e-mail address. Handy
when you don't want senders to use your other e-mail address or your other
e-mail account is inaccessible.
How is SJPC's E-Mail Service Different? 
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Privacy: We don't require you to answer personal questions.
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Confidentiality: We don't give information to vendors and
spammers.
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No advertising: We don't put ads into your e-mails.
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Capacity: We don't limit you to 3 megabytes of mail.
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Industry-standard software: You can access your e-mail at sjpc.org
with software that is included with your operating system or readily downloadable.
No proprietary software is required.
E-Mail Protocols - POP and IMAP
There are two main client-server protocols for graphical e-mail:
POP (Post Office Protocol) and IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol).
POP has been around longer so more ISP's support it, but IMAP has many
advantages. The club's mail server supports both, but when you configure
the e-mail software on your computer you must choose one.
The POP mail protocol downloads all your mail to your PC whenever
you connect to a POP mail server. This can take a long time if you
have attachments or a lot of messages in your inbox. POP is good
if you want all your mail on your PC. But beware of synchronization
problems if you check mail from multiple computers.
The IMAP mail protocol overcomes most of the limitations of POP
mail. IMAP mail is stored on the server, which saves space on your
PC. IMAP is faster because it initially downloads only message subject
lines rather than whole messages.
With IMAP you can access your mail at sjpc.org from different
computers and use both graphical and text mail tools without synchronization
problems. IMAP is more secure.
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