Web host question?

[Waldo]

OK, (I seem to be full of questions tonight, and with nothing better to do I figured I should get them all off my chest!)
Anyway, I am not a computer genius, but out of my group of friends I am the most knowlegeable (seems very hard to believe! ;)) Anyway, my friend wants a website at low cost which isn't a problem. However, he wants this: The main e-mail addresses must all be delivered to the main office. However, he also wants all individuals associated with the company (all work from home) to have an e-mail address as well. Do most web hosts allow this? For example, would they all dial in using the same user name, and (I assume most of them will be using Outlook Express) would they be able to setup their e-mail progs to do this ok?
The more I think about this, the more I get confused :E
Oh yeah, one more question, my friend doesn't want to pay too much for the whole site and hosting. He was looking at Freeola, but what is everyones opinion on them? For example, much downtime? or other problems?

Many thanks in advance from da man... Waldo
:)

[Rapter Red]

post to big again, hehe :)

[Waldo]

Damn you! ;)

[DHB]

hi m8, well i'm no genius either, but i think 99% of hosts if not all of them offer multiple E-mail addresses, even the freebees. i.e if the site was called http://www.waldo.com, the e-mail addresses would be
- enquirys@waldo.com
-SalesRep1@waldo.com
-Salesrep2@waldo.com, ect
and if they are using Outlook, then they set their account preferences so that they only pick up their own e-mail, i know because me, and my family have 3 e-mails (1 each), and i got the preferences so we all receive our own mail
go to TOOLS, ACCOUNTS select the mail tab, then select your mail account, then select PROPERTIES, then on the general tab it lists an E-mail address. Whatever is in this box, thats the e-mail it will search for

(i bet some1 else says this is wrong, but hey it works for me!, and at least i tried)