You will need email hosting if you want to use your domain name to setup personal email accounts, example:

myname@mydomain.com.au
sales@mydomain.com.au

Email hosting is a must for small and large businesses as this is your company image. Using an email address like ryan@bigpond.com is really advertising Bigpond but having your own email address like ryan@mydomain.com is advertising your business instead.

You can check your mail using a traditional email client such as Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express or by using Aust Domains Webmail applications.

Webmail enables you to check your email using your Web browser from any location as long as you have access to the Internet. One of the advantages of Webmail is that you can use Webmail and traditional email clients such as Outlook to check the same email account. So, when you’re in the office you can use your favorite email application, but when you’re traveling you can just log in to Webmail.

To use Webmail, click on Manage My Account and then click on Check Web Mail, you will be asked for a username and password, use your EMAIL address as the username and then enter in the password for that email account.

Yes. Aust Domains provide spam and virus filtering that helps keep your email spam and virus-free. All incoming email messages are automatically scanned to detect viruses and to determine if the message meets specially defined "spam criteria."

Read more about this Spam and Virus filtering service here.