Masinter E-Mail and Web F.A.Q.

Are you a Masinter? Would you like an email address you@masinter.net ?
Read below for more details, then Email me: john@masinter.net
 
Masinter Email
  1. Why use a masinter.net email?
    • Its portable - The address is independent of your current Internet provider. You can keep your masinter.net email address for life. It will go unchanged as you move from one Internet provider to another over your lifetime.
    • Its personal - Another reason is its very personal to you, since the address is your name.
    • Its Easy - Its very easy for you to verbally communicate to others. It also easy for others to remember. Think of all the times you give someone your email address over the phone. Consider joe@masinter.net versus joem156@hotmail.com.
    • Its reliable - Masinter.net email has been moved to Google GMail. Now you will have outstanding spam protection and reliability.
    • Its Gmail You can read "10 reasons to use Gmail" at the google site HERE
       
  2. How do I check email? You have several options.
    • GMail - You may access your masinter.net email via the gmail web interface. This is considered the best on-line web mail client today.
    • Forward - You may simply have your masinter.net email forwarded to your current email acct. It will then appear the same as your current email.
    • BOTH - If you are going to forward, then this is a better option then forwarding alone, because it gives you a backup of all your masitner.net email that you can access at any time via the web by logging into GMail.
    • IMAP - GMail offers IMAP and POP protocols to allow you to view your email using your favorite local email client.
       
  3. How do I get started?
    Email me with a request. Please specify the name you would like. For example Joe might want joe, joey, joseph, etc.
     
  4. You sent me new acct info. How do I sign-in?
    • Sign in to Masinters International services at: mail.masinter.net This is synonomous with www.google.com/a/masinter.net
    • You were given a temporary password which you will be prompted to change immediatly upon long. Do not loose or forget your new password. I do not have access to it. You mail fate is now in your own hands.
       
  5. I have logged in. How do I setup forwarding?
    • Choose the "settings" link in the upper right corner.
    • Choose the tab for "Forwarding and POP/IMAP"
    • click button "Add forwarding address"
    • Give it the email address to which email should be forwarded.
       
  6. I'm having trouble with Gmail. Can you help me?
    Gmail has a ton of help and documentation on-line. Please try to answer your own questions first. If you really can not find the answer, then you may email me.
     

Masinter Web
 
Would you like your own web page, such as http://joe.masiner.net ?
  1. We are phasing out the free service of hosting web accts on our servers.
  2. But you can request a subdomain, for example joe.masinter.net
  3. Then you host your joe.masinter.net web page elsewhere.
  4. There are two ways to do this:
    • You request a few dns records for your subdomain. I add them to masinter.net dns. This is very simple, and gives you the ability to host joe.masinter.net at whatever web host you like. You can even host your own email under this subdomain by adding an MX record.
    • You are Internet savvy and wish to run your own dns. In this case I can forward the dns for the subdomain to your dns server. This gives you ultimate control over your subdomain. This is more effort and more feature than is needed by most everyone .