Email is pretty much the life blood of your work day. Make sure you use it to its fullest. Here is some help to do so.

• Configuring POP Email Clients

When you signed up for a hosting account with Dogbark you should have received an email with your POP account settings.

Email Address: joe@mrcreativeguy.com
User Name (POP user ID): joebm
Password: bigbucks
Incoming Mail Server (POP mailserver):

mail.mrcreativeguy.com
Outgoing Mail:

smtp01.dogbark.com
Reply To Address: Joe@mrcreativeguy.com

• Step By Step Instructions

Here are instructions on setting up your preferred email program. If you want our opinion, we prefer the power and flexibility of either Eudora or Outlook Express. But, that's just our opinion.

Apple Mail: Leopard/10.5.1, Tiger/10.4.6
iPhone: iPhone 3G
Eudora: version 6.2, Eudora 7.0 (for PC)
Entourage: Version 11.2 (Mac users)
Outlook Express: PC version 6.0
Outlook: Outlook 2003 (PC Only)

• New Vacation Auto-Responder

Well folks, you asked for it, and you got it. This new Vacation Auto-Responder will allow you to set up individual vacation messages for each POP account that you have set up through dogbark. Just don't forget to turn them off when you are done or people will think you are always on vacation.

- For step by step instructions on setting up your vacation auto-resonder, click here.
- If you would like to turn a vacation auto-resonse message off, please click here.

• Email forwarding suggestion

If you are having all your domain email forwarded to your existing email account with another provider (eg. joecreativephoto@earthlink.net) then you may want to make the "reply to" address in your email program you@yourdomain.com. That way your email is branded with your domain name.

• Web based email. Woo-Hoo!

We offer WebMail with all our hosting plans. To learn more go to how to ... webmail.
If you need help importing your email addresses into webmail click here.

• New SMTP Server

We have added a new Dogbark SMTP server for your convenience.
- SMTP Server: smtp01.dogbark.com
- Sending Limitations: Recipient Lists must be below 100 and attachments must be below 10MB.
- Authentication: You will not need to use Authentication to use this mail server, however you'll want to make sure your email program is checking messages at least once every 10 minutes to avoid a "relay denied" error message from us.