CV3/Rackspace Email Hosting

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Overview

This is a collection of information to help you use and manage your email accounts provided with your CommerceV3-hosted website.

Server settings

These settings will need to be added to whatever program you use to access email (Outlook, Outlook Express, Thunderbird, Mail, etc.)

  • Incoming mail server (POP): secure.emailsrvr.com (port 995, SSL-enabled)
  • Incoming mail server (IMAP): secure.emailsrvr.com (port 993, SSL-enabled)
  • Outgoing mail server (SMTP): secure.emailsrvr.com (port 465, SSL-enabled)
    • Some service providers may block port 465 from working on your network. If this is the case, alternate ports are 587 and 8025.


DNS configuration changes

These changes will need to be added to your domain's DNS server(s), often hosted at your domain registrar or at CommerceV3. If you don't know where your DNS servers are located, please contact us or have your technical representative do so, and we can assist.

MX records

  • mx1.emailsrvr.com (TTL 900)
  • mx2.emailsrvr.com (TTL 900)

TXT record

v=spf1 include:emailsrvr.com ~all


Websites

Webmail allows you access to your email anytime and anywhere you have access to the Internet with a standard web browser.

Web access to email

http://webmail.commercev3.com (redirects to https://commercev3.mymailsrvr.com/index.php)

Email administration control panel

Each domain has its own dedicated administrator account; this account's details were provided to you when your email accounts were first set up. If you do not have this information or have lost/forgotten the password, please email us and we can help you recover it.

https://cp.rackspace.com

Email Setup Assistant

Email Admin Control Panel and Webmail Help


Sending Mass Emails

Any email sent from your domain's personal mailboxes (whether your own account or a general one such as info@mydomain.com) can go to a maximum of 249 recipients at once. This restriction is imposed by Rackspace as their terms of service specifically prohibit the sending of bulk mail from the standard mail servers. Identical or extremely similar emails sent to 250 or more addresses are considered bulk email, and not allowed as it could cause the mail servers themselves to be throttled or blacklisted by external providers (Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL, etc.). If you need to send out newsletters or other emails to large groups, you will need to either send them as an email blast, or use a different service provider altogether.

You can read more about the Acceptable Use Policy here: Rackspace Email AUP.

For more information on sending email blasts: CV3 Email Blasts

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