Setting up Email Services
Types of email services supported
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This option also applies whenever you establish domain-hosted email which you access
directly, either through a Web-based interface or directly from your email clients on your
computer.
ISP connection email diagram
For more information, see
Internet email (mirrored host)
The Magnia SG20 email server is also capable of sending and receiving mail via an
established mail server on the Internet. This is commonly used if you wish to establish
your own domain on the Internet (
mycompany.com
) and have an Internet hosting company
host your email services (
).
You can have the Magnia SG20’s email server mirror your domain’s email locally. The
advantage of doing this is that local email (messages destined for someone with an
account on the Magnia SG20) goes directly to the local recipient —it will not be
transmitted to the Internet and then sent back to your local network. Messages for
recipients who aren’t local to your network are sent to your domain host’s server for
transmission.
Alternatively, when you establish a domain with hosted email, you can set up your client
computers to access the hosting site’s servers directly. In this case, you are using the
Magnia SG20
Clients
Internet Service
MSN, etc.)
Internet
connection
Provider
(EarthLink, AT&T,
