About Your Email Addresses  

There are a few things you will need to consider while planning to take advantage of an Optionline Extend website package. Your answer to the following question will help you identify what issues you'll need to address regarding email accounts.

Does your center already have a website name (domain name) that you plan to use for your new Optionline Extend website? 

NO ...

Great! This will make it easy to establish your new Extend website. Since you do not have an existing website you won't need to be concerned about migrating your existing email accounts to the new website host used by Extend. You'll need to identify all email accounts that you want for you center (up to the limit associated with the website package you have selected.)

Email accounts come in two varieties:     

1. A REAL email account is one that you'll be able to access by using a program on your computer such as Microsoft Outlook. You can also access a REAL email account from the web by pointing your web browser to an addresslike, as an example, http://mail.myCentersWebSite.com. Note, this web address is an example - not a real web mail site.

2. An email alias is an email address that simply redirects email to a REAL email account. For example, let's say that you already have a personal email account, something like This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , but you don't want to have Jane This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it This e-mail adress is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it displayed on your center's website. It is less professional to have a personal email account used for a center's purposes. So, instead, you can have Extend create an email alias, to follow our example so far, like This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

YES...

Wonderful! You already have experience with websites and email accounts. We can leverage your experience and your existing domain name and email accounts. After you have selected the Optionline Extend website package and before launching your new site we'll work together to migrate your website name (domain name) and email accounts to the new Extend website.

It is important that you understand the timing and steps involved in the migration. Here are the steps involved:


1. Locate and document the company that you or one of your representatives has purchased your website name (domain name) from. That company is known as a Domain Registrar. Examples are Godaddy.com and NetworkSolutions.com, among many others. Along with the Domain Registrar company name you'll also need to know what the username and password is to access the website that allows you, as the owner of the domain name, to control various aspects of your domain name.

2. Identify the various means that all of your current staff uses to access their email accounts that are associated with your domain name. You will probably find that some of your staff use a website (webmail) to access their accounts while others use a program, like Microsoft Outlook, to read and send email.

3. Create a list of all people that have email accounts along with the way that they access their email. Also, you will need to identify and document any email Aliases that you are using.