email on my website

[Dirk]

Great site you've got here. And I hope I'm posting this in the correct forum. By the looks of it, I am.
I just opened up a website, I'm totally new at it, and want to know how I can receive & send email from it. I'm an American, but currently working overseas, and most of the info is NOT in English. I searched google, but didn't have too much luck.

[lopvin]

just make a link on ure page to ure email address and people can email you.. simple

[PeOfEo]

to do an email link use <a href="mailto:youremail@yourhost.domain">EMAIL ME FOOL!</a> But if you dare to be daring you can use a form to do this. There are many ways to go about doing that though.

[Dirk]

Well I tried emailing from my yahoo to my site, but it came back as undeliverable.
Do I need to put a folder on my server for email?
Or does my server need to open an email for me?
Thanks again... :rolleyes:
Like I said....totally new at this.

[pyro]

Sounds like you are trying to receive mail at your domain? If so, talk to your server administrator about it....

[Dirk]

Oh I see. I thought that's how it works.
IE: www.abc.com. On that site it says their email is bob@abc.com. So don't they receive their email at the domain?

[AdamBrill]

That would be his address. He would receive the e-mail from a different program, such as Outlook Express. In order to recieve the e-mail on the actual web site, you would have to have web-mail set up. I think web-mail is what you are looking for...

[PeOfEo]

they will only recieve email at a domain if they have an email server of cource like I guess a pop3, can you configure an smtp to recieve email? Or is smtp just for outgoing mail?

[havik]

So don't they receive their email at the domain?

Like Pyro said, contact your system administrator and you can probably get something set up for you.

Havik

[Dirk]

Thanks for your input. I understand. Like I said, I'm in a non speaking English country, and it's difficult to understand things sometimes.
:o :)