Email Hosting FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)

Listed below are some email hosting FAQ. If you don't find your answer here, please feel free to send us your question.

What is your Business-Mail Solution?
Centaurhosting Business-Mail is a unique Email Hosting Solution that gives businesses and corporates a leading edge in communication. It also reinforces the online brand of the organization. For full details of this comprehensive solution please click here.

Who should choose Business-Mail and why?
Business-Mail is the right email solution for you if you are looking for a branded mailing solution to support your organizations email communication requirements. With Business-Mail , you get the flexibility of creating POP3 E-mail ID's for your employees and also the use of "Webmail Interface" like Yahoo or Hotmail.

I need a large number of Email IDs. How do I get them?
Create the large number of email ID's on your own domain name / website. Contact Sales for a custom solution for your company. This is the most economical and fitting way for 99% of companies.

What is POP3 mail?
POP3 stands for "Post Office Protocol Version 3" which is used to retrieve Emails kept on a mail server to your PC using an email client such as "Microsoft Outlook Express", "Microsoft Outlook", "Netscape Messenger", "Eudora Mail" etc.

What is Webmail?
Webmail is an email service, which is used to check emails using a web browser such as "Microsoft Internet Explorer", "Netscape Navigator" etc.

What is my email alias?
If your email address is you@yourdomain.com, your email alias is "you" (part of your email address before @ sign). It is also called "local part" of an email address.

What is a catchall Email Id / Unlimited Aliasing?
A catchall email Id is the one that will receive emails sent to all those email-ids on your domain that do not exist. It will act as a cover for all those spelling mistakes in local parts (aliases) that a sender makes while sending emails at your domain.

What is my mailbox quota?
With Centaurhosting email hosting solutions you can set your own mailbox size limit or quota using the domain control panel provided to you.

What is SPAM?
SPAM consists of unsolicited/unwanted email messages, which are sent to a recipient against his/her will. SPAM most commonly includes bulk commercial email, which is sent to multiple email address for the purpose of advertising a product or service with a common subject and message body. SPAM doesn't always mean bulk email but anything that is objectionable to the recipient.

What are Auto-Responders?
Autoresponders respond automatically to mail received at certain addresses. For example, you can set an autoresponder to automatically deliver a file containing information on your company's products when a customer sends a request to products@yourcompany.com. You can configure auto-responders to deliver immediate information to customers in a timely manner.