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[06] CAN I USE EMAIL WITH '@LOGIN.FREESHELL.ORG' OR '@LOGIN.SDF-EU.ORG'?

     Yes you can!  This falls under the Virtual POP3 Mailbox (VPM)
     service.  This is the same feature that VHOST members have.

     Basically, your subdomain 'yourlogin.freeshell.org' or
     'youlogin.sdf-eu.org' is FREE and is setup when your run
     'addlink'.  You can join the VPM membership level and then
     have 20 VPMs associated with your free domain name!

     Say you are 'Bob Grady' and your user id is 'grady'.  You create
     a subdomain 'grady.freeshell.org' for your family.  You can then
     create VPMs for your entire family!

     You could have:

     [email protected]
     [email protected]
     [email protected]

     The same thing applies to your church!  With the user id 'fbcd'
     which could be 'First Baptist Church of Dulles' .. with VPM you
     could create:

     [email protected]
     [email protected]
     [email protected]
     [email protected]
     [email protected]
     
     And so on!

     But even more important, the free subdomain is all yours.  By default
     '[email protected]' would go to 'fbcd' mailbox.  This helps
     in guarding against spam, as then you would be able to use a random
     username for say a website query.  You could then filter on that
     username to block any spam, et cetera.
     
     You can use the 'mkvpm' command to manage your mailboxes.  For
     more information, checkout the 'VHOST' section of the FAQ.

     All VPM mailboxes (active and inactive) including their sizes and
     last time/date of writing can be seen using the 'vpmstat' command.

     Old or large mailboxes can be cleared out with the 'vpmclear' command.

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