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What is POP3

POP3 stands for Post Office Protocol revision 3. It is used to fetch delivered email messages from your mail server. A distinctive POP3 feature is that it deletes the messages from the server after they are downloaded to your computer. … Continued

How to point my mail service to XonHost

This article covers the necessary MX record setup in order to use XonHost’s mail service with your domain. XonHost shared and Cloud hosting account owners should use the following MX records with their domain: 1 2 3 4 Priority Destination 10 mx10.mailspamprotection.com … Continued

Error: Too many recipients

The “Too many recipients” error will be displayed when: An email message has more than 40 recipients (or 80 under GoGeek plans). A domain tries to send more than 400 emails per hour (or 800 emails/hour if hosted on GoGeek … Continued

The email server seems to be blacklisted

If you receive a bounced-back message saying that IP address X.X.X.X is blacklisted by a spam organization, this means that the aforementioned IP address has been blacklisted for sending unsolicited mail. Such a listing is caused by a complaint to … Continued

POP3 and SMTP – What are The Differences

Both POP3 and SMTP are protocols for handling your email over the Internet. The difference between them is that the SMTP protocol handles sending new emails, while POP3 takes care of receiving emails. For more information on that matter, take a look on our … Continued

How to modify your MX records for Google Suite Mail?

Once you sign up your domain for G Suite, you will have to change its MX records to start using their email services. If you are a XonHost customer this can be easily done via cPanel -> MX Entry. You will need to assign … Continued

How to Clean Up my Mailbox?

The easiest way to clean up your mailbox is through Webmail. You can access Webmail directly at http://yourdomain.com/webmail with your email account, where yourdomain.com is your website hosted with XonHost. The next step is to delete the messages that you don’t need and empty … Continued

Why my messages go to yahoo/hotmail/gmail junk/bulk/spam folder?

Usually, this issue is caused by spam-fighting filters on the remote server, incorrectly flagging your messages. Remote email servers have different types of SPAM protection rules for detecting which email is SPAM and which is not. What you can do … Continued

What is SMTP

SMTP is an abbreviation that stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. This protocol allows applications to transmit email messages over the Internet. Basically, SMTP handles your outgoing mail. Your email application connects to your mail server via SMTP and sends the … Continued

How to change my MX record?

You can change the MX records of domains that useXonHost’s name servers from cPanel -> Advanced MX Editor. More information on how to edit MX records in cPanel can be found in our MX Record tutorial. If you are not using XonHost’s name servers … Continued