An email account is an account on a mail server that provides for the storage of email. If you have one or more email accounts as part of a hosting package, you can often configure an email address to deliver email into one of your email accounts.

This can often include delivering all email for a domain into an email account by selecting the 'Catch All' email alias.

You can then access the email stored in an email account using an email client program, such as Microsoft Outlook or Eudora on your personal computer, or sometimes from a web browser using a webmail client.