I’ve had this issue come up a couple of times over the past weeks with clients - what to do with your email account when you move your website to a new host? For whatever reason, a lot of you don’t use the ’standard’ Email clients like Outlook or AOL.

Here are my thoughts on the matter:

You really have three options here.

1. Just use the [new webhost] webmail – on the initial end, this is the easiest, BUT
if you ever decided to move to a different hosting account, your emails
would not port over easily. (Yes, they would all be stored at [webhost] )

2.
Set up your email in Outlook – if you have this already installed on
your computer, it’s a good way to go. The downside is, you would not
have access to your emails if you were away from your computer.

3.
Set up a Gmail or Yahoo account. This is almost the best of both
worlds. We can set it up where people would only see your
business.com email address (not gmail.com or yahoo.com), you can
access it from anywhere and should you ever change hosting companies,
your email would not be held hostage. This is also good if your
assistant monitors your email because she can just log into your
business account through gmail or yahoo and do whatever she needs to
do.

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