@Malibu.com Email Products
Email Address
If you choose the @Malibu.com Email Address Mailbox product, you’ll be able to select your own email address, using your own name (if it’s still available). If your only goal is be able to receive email at, and send email from this single address, that’s all you need. Note these important features of the @Malibu.com Email Address Mailbox product:
- All other products require that you license this base product.
- Your email address supplies up to 10GB of storage space.
- You can access your email using most Web browsers by browsing to https://webmail.malibu.com.
- You can send and retrieve email using most standard email client applications, such as Outlook, Outlook Express, Microsoft Mail, Entourage, Eudora, and other products. Browse to http://www.malibu.com/base/emailsupport.aspx to see if we support your client software. On this page you’ll find detailed information on how to set up your email client. The page even includes video walk-through’s to help you set up your email service with your client application.
- You can add the advanced features of Microsoft Exchange server, including the ability to host contact and task information. For more information, send email to sales@malibu.com. (We’re unaware of any other hosting service that provides this service.)
If you are an individual, and all you require is the @Malibu.com email address, the @Malibu.com Email Address Mailbox product is all you need.
For the purposes of illustration, imagine that you have a business named BeachSand and you have set up a mailbox (by purchasing the @Malibu.com Email Address Mailbox product) named BeachSand@Malibu.com<mailto:BeachSand@Malibu.com>.
What is the difference between an ISP-based Email Address and a Vanity Email
Address? An ISP-based email address is automatically assigned to you when you
set up a computer account with an Internet Service Provider (ISP). For example,
if you sign up for Time Warner cable modem service at the beach, you will be
given a username for your account. John Doe may be assigned a username of
jdoe44. His ISP-based email address would be jdoe44@sc.rr.com. A Vanity Email
Address is a more descriptive email address that you have chosen for yourself,
e.g. JohnDoe@Malibu.com. It has the same advantages as keeping your cell phone
number when you change cell phone providers. You can retain it whether you
continue with Time Warner or switch to another ISP. When you change ISPs, you won't risk losing your email since mail addressed to JohnDoe@Malibu.com
will always be accessible to you..
What other advantages are there in using a Vanity Email Address?
You can disguise your actual ISP-based email address as well as the identity of your ISP. In other words, when you send email messages, your return address will be shown as JohnDoe@Malibu.com
rather than jdoe44@sc.rr.com. This makes it considerably easier for friends to
remember your email address.
Will my old ISP-based email address still work?
Absolutely. It will work as long as you continue service with your current ISP.
Does setting a Vanity Email Address change my username?
A Vanity Email Address provides you an additional email address which is easy for friends to remember. Your existing ISP username and ISP-based email address are unaffected and will still work as before.
Can I pick any name or description I want for my Vanity Email Address?
So long as your selection meets our Terms and Conditions of Service, you are free to choose any name or description desired.
Alias Address
Imagine that you’re running a small business using your @malibu.com email address, and because of your prestigious email address, you find that you’re getting more and more business. In order to differentiate your job functions, you decide that you want to not only be able to receive mail using your single email box, but you want to be able to have multiple aliases for the same mailbox. For example, you might want personal emails to go to BeachSand@malibu.com, but emails concerning sales to go to BeachSandSales@malibu.com. Having one or more aliases provides a way for you to organize your emails, and to indicate to your customers that your growing company is perhaps larger than it really is.
By purchasing the @Malibu.com Alias Address product, you add the following features to your basic email address at Malibu.com:
- Each additional alias adds a new public address at which you can receive email (BeachSandSales@malibu.com, BeachSandSupport@malibu.com, and so on).
- All mail for all aliases appear to you in your one mailbox, so you can easily retrieve all the mail that has been sent to all of your aliases.
- Each additional alias adds 10MB of storage to your available mailbox size.
Your business has grown, and now you decide you need a web site with a prestigious Malibu.com address, corresponding to your @malibu.com email address. You now need a Website DNS Sub-Domain Pointer.
