Email Accounts
See
Setting up Email Accounts.for the instructions on how to create mail boxes and configure your computer to download mail.
Email Accounts are only available to customers that register or transfer domain names to us (if you are unable to transfer your domain name because of the 60 day waiting period for global domain names, then
contact us to organize alternative arrangements). Usually customers use advanced dns services or domain name forwarding to redirect their domain name.You can order email hosting at the same time as registering a domain name or order email hosting after you register your domain name. It's up to you.
Why do I need to transfer in my domain name?
To keep our prices down and to easily solve any problems customers have, it is simply easier to manage both the domain name and hosting in one place. It is often quite a lot of hassle to get a global domain name transferred to us because some registrars are quite troublesome in letting domains go, but by having both domain name registration and email hosting in one place, any problems can easily be solved without having to work with other registrars' systems. One common problem that customers have hosting in one place and registering a domain name in another, is that their website and email stops working because they failed to renew their domain name. This does not happen with us, because we manage both hosting and domain name renewals.
Features of email hosting
Note: Our email hosting, is not just an email forwarding service. An email account is better than email redirection or email forwarding because it will allow you to send and receive mail to an email account associated with your domain name. Email forwarding only allows you to redirect your mail to an alternative email address. It is a good idea not to use your ISPs email service because if you change your ISP, you will not be able to take your email address with you. Hotmail, GMail and Yahoo accounts although free, serve up advertising and you have limited control over what happens to your emails - your private emails may end up being databased without your knowledge. Free email services must make money somehow and usually this is via advertising both to you when you login to your account. Google says on its websites "In a completely automated process, computers process the text in a message and match it to ads or related information in Google's extensive database." or they serve up advertising to your email recipients. It may not be desirable to have online dating ads accompany your business email, so we recommend that you buy a business email hosting account to use for personal or business email.
We do not recommend email redirection because when you send email, the email address that you used to send your email with is the one most likely to be added to the recipient's contact list. It is best to use your company email address to send and receive mail, rather than email redirection where you can receive but not send email from.
Email hosting does not include hosting of website. If you require both web hosting (which includes email hosting) please see Web Hosting plans and prices.
Email hosting Prices and Plans
These plans were updated June 2008. Existing customers have been automatically upgraded to the new allowances.
| Business Email Hosting | Advanced Email Hosting | Premium Email Hosting |
| 2 GB Disk Space 10 GB Data Transfer (per month) 5 POP Boxes (Mailboxes) Mailbox Size up to 1 GB Anti Spam/Virus Protection Webmail Access 5 Mailing Lists URL Forwarding (Standard or Frame Forwarding) Free DNS Hosting Control Panel Access
$49 per year (works out to be $4.08 per month paid annually) | 10 GB Disk Space 20 GB Data Transfer (per month) 200 POP Boxes (Mailboxes) Mailbox Size up to 2 GB Anti Spam/Virus Protection Webmail Access 10 Mailing List URL Forwarding (Standard or Frame Forwarding) Free DNS Hosting Control Panel Access
$69 per year(works out to be $5.75 per month paid annually) | 30 GB Disk Space 60 GB Data Transfer (per month) Unlimited POP Boxes (Mailboxes) Mailbox Size up to 2 GB Anti Spam/Virus Protection Webmail Access 15 Mailing Lists URL Forwarding (Standard or Frame Forwarding) Free DNS Hosting Control Panel Access
$99 per year(works out to be 8.25 per month paid annually) |
How do I order email hosting accounts
- Register or transfer your domain name to Passion Computing
- Login to your account and click "add services" next to the domain name you wish to order email hosting for.
- Complete the online order form, What next?
After your email account is activated, we will send you an email to let you know. Usually, your account will be set up the same business day but allow up to 24 hours. As soon as your account has been set up, you will be able to access it via http://domains.passioncomputing.com.au . We will send you an email with instructions and links to the information that you require or you read Setting up Email Accounts.for the instructions on how to create mail boxes and configure your computer to download mail.
How do I redirect my domain name to another URL?
To redirect your domain name to another URL, please order domain forwarding by logging into http://domains.passioncomputing.com.au . See Web Forwarding Instructions for full instructions. Most customers find the instructions fairly easy, if you get stuck, send an email to sales@passioncomputing.com.au and we'll get it done for you.