You have three options available for sending and receiving email with your account which are described below.  You would use POP email if you need to send and receive mail from a unique email address like name@yourdomain.com using Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express. You would use email forwarding if you wanted email forwarded to and exiswting email account like an AOL acocunt. (ie. name@yourdomain.com forwarded to name@aol.com).  Finally you would use webmail if you need to send and receive mail using a web browser.

1. POP E-mail Accounts: These are email accounts that you will be able to use with Microsoft Outlook Express or Microsoft Outlook. With POP email accounts you will be able to send and receive email from an address like 'john@yourdomain.com'.  To set up these POP email accounts simply login to your control panel and then click on the 'Add POP Accounts', button and then follow the instructions for adding a POP account. When setting up your email addresses they can either be POP accounts or mail forwarding accounts but not both.  

To setup your POP email you can configure your Outlook or Outlook Express with these general settings:

Email Address = username@yourdomain.com
Mail Server user name = username provided when adding POP account through control panel
(Note: your username should be in this format: jill_domi)
Outgoing SMTP Mail Server = smtp.yourdomain.com
Incoming POP3 Mail Server = mail.yourdomain.com

To see a step by step setup up tour go here.

2. Email Forwarding: If you have an existing email account like 'john@yahoo.com' and you would like to create an email address like 'john@yourdomain.com' and then have mail forwrded to your current 'john@yahoo.com' address that is sent to your 'john@yourdomain.com' address, then you would choose the email forwarding option.  So if mail is sent to 'john@yourdomain.com', it would actually just get forwarded to your 'john@yahoo.com' account.  With this email option you would not be able to send mail out as 'john@yourdomain.com.  To set up email forwarding accounts, you would simply login to your control panel and then click on the 'Email Forwarding', button and then follow the instructions for creating an email forwarding account.

3. Web Mail: Your Hosting account also comes with Web Mail. Web Mail is a powerful program that allows you to access your email 24 hours a day from any browser in the world!!!  If for some reason your ISP does not allow you to send email then web mail is the perfect solution for you to send email and have it go to users as AnyName@.

Before accesseing and setting up Web Mail, you will need to create a POP account first by following the POP account instructions above.  Once your account is setup follow the instructions below:

Go to this address: www.myhostingadmin.com/webmail/ and login with the login and password that was provided to you when you set up your POP account.   Once you login, click on the 'Options' link. Then click on 'Personal Information'. This is the page you need to set-up. Fill out this page completely or you will not be able to send mail. Whatever email you specify on this page is the email that your recipients will see.