Electronic Mail, better known as email, is one of the most widely used forms of communication today. All Freedom server products allow you to provide a large number of email accounts as well as additional email addresses through email aliases.
The mail services on your Freedom server act together like a post office. They receive mail that is sent to the server, sort it and deliver it to user it is addressed to. They allow users to retrieve their mail, download it to their PC or access it directly on the server.
Your Freedom server’s SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) service is responsible for accepting incoming email and either delivering it locally or relaying it to another server for final delivery. The SMTP service is powered by the Sendmail daemon – a highly configurable mail server application.
There are two other important mail services provided by your Freedom server. These network services, called pop3 and imap4, are what allow you to retrieve or otherwise access mail that is waiting for you on the server.
Every user account on your server, including the one that was created for you at the time your server was created, is capable of receiving email messages. Additionally, an email alias with the address "webmaster@yourdomain.com" is pre-configured to redirect messages to the email address that you supplied when signing up for your account. Therefore, your Freedom server already handles email for you with these two different email addresses.
Email messages are stored in accounts within your main Freedom server and can be picked up and read using an email client program.