New Email Accounts

hopz121 said:
Is it easy to set up an email this way then?

Could anyone give me a rough how to on how to get it set up and running?

It seems like a great idea :)
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Really easy... I would advise using one of the big providers (123-reg, ukreg, namecheap etc)... it doesn't cost a lot and using them means it's easier if you want to transfer the domain away later... sometimes the smaller companies cause a lot of trouble when you want to move on.

Once you have it setup there is a control panel you can login to to configure it. You can either use their email service if you signed up for one or you can forward to another service e.g. Gmail. In Gmail there are options for if you want to use your own domain... set those up and you're good to go. You'll have to pay the domain renewal fee every couple of years (pretty cheap) but if you decide to switch to the latest and greatest email service ina few years time all you need to do is update the forwarder in your control panel and you're good to go.
 
I was just going to use their servers and pull email directly into Outlook 365 and work from there. Rest of the family into Office 2010/13 or whatever they are on.

Am I missing a trick by not diverting to something like Google?
 
I pay something like £15 a year or so for the use of the providers email servers rather than forward to gmail. That includes spam filtering, alias settings (sales@, info@ etc). Quite useful if you want to use a shared email box as well (family@).
 
pvr said:
I pay something like £15 a year or so for the use of the providers email servers rather than forward to gmail. That includes spam filtering, alias settings (sales@, info@ etc). Quite useful if you want to use a shared email box as well (family@).
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That was my thinking. Just checking I'm not missing something.
Mine has just cost £56 for 2 years and includes 5 emails, servers, spam, etc. we'll all be firstname@surname[domain].com
 
That sounds fine to me. You will have webmail with that as well, you will need that as sometimes the spam filtering is brutal and real emails disappear in there before they hit your Outlook even.

I check my spam at my domain provider once a day and usually there is 1 or 2 business emails in there that are real.
 
I have mine set up with one mailbox as a "catchall" in case names are spelt wrong, and individual forwarding accounts to each of our personal gmail accounts.

So, for example, [email protected] would be the "catchall" and [email protected] forwards to [email protected].. YOu can set each forwarding account to send to multiple personal accounts as well.

Works great for us!
 
Personally, i have two primary emails - a standard gmail address, and a personal domain address linked to a google apps account.

I'm a sysadmin, but i've recently bailed on maintaining my own mailserver for lack of spare time more than anything. I also don't trust my critical mail to ~average_joe_hosting_company

I've also migrated my parents (@thenameoftheirhouse.co.uk) and my gf to the same platform. All the benefits of cloud based gmail, on the net, via outlook, on iphones, on laptops, but with your own domain and all the benefits of gmail's service (spam defence, filtering, groups, apps) . Cost is something like £1 per person, per month (plus domain costs - i use 123-reg, and have done for many years).
 
other benefit of forwarding is often Gmails spam filtering is better, and also if a family member already has an email address you can just forward to that, then they won't have to maintain both.
 
I did debate getting hold of my surname as a domain but sadly some property company in the US has it :<
 
I'd advise against forwarding, you'd be better off using gmail to host directly (via google apps), or whatever provider of choice.
 
jimmybell said:
I'd advise against forwarding, you'd be better off using gmail to host directly (via google apps), or whatever provider of choice.
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I disagree, I have setup plenty of accounts for people using forwarding and never had a problem whatsoever. For normal use Google apps won't give you anything over what forwarding will.
 
Am curious why you are against forwarding, jimmybell? I've never had a problem with it, and my "catchall" account is my backup...
 
markeg said:
Am curious why you are against forwarding, jimmybell? I've never had a problem with it, and my "catchall" account is my backup...
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me too... been using forwards for years with absolutely no issues.
 
markeg said:
Lots of other extensions available now, Disca :)
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I like the idea of an oldschool .com / .co.uk though.

I think the company has brought up quite a few of them as things like .email are also in use
 
Disca said:
markeg said:
Lots of other extensions available now, Disca :)
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I like the idea of an oldschool .com / .co.uk though.

I think the company has brought up quite a few of them as things like .email are also in use
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you could use a combination of your initials plus surname, with some punction? its what I've had to do given my whole name seems quite common...
 
Largely because your sending address is different to your receiving address, and return mails would reflect that. It's an async path, and a pretty common way of filtering for spam. It's also pretty confusing, and feels somewhat unfinished - why add extra points of failure.

It's fine for ensuring you have a catchall to prevent loss of mails, if that's what you want (though that'l probably result in further spam being received). It can also, technically, be used to help prevent spam, but this is the sort of active email address management you'd use for high profile individuals (CEO's, Media, fame etc) - where you regularly change the forwarding address and keep the actual inbox relatively secret, kind of like an inverse catchall... security by obscurity - catch only what you want.

Using google apps exposes you to googles multi-million dollar spam algos. I don't think i've had spam or junkmail in my inbox for .. a few years? Comparatively, running my own mailserver, employing many layers of spam filtering processes with multiple products - it's just a matter of time before you get overwhelmed. I guess it's fine if you're pretty reserved with your email address, but i'm throwing mine left right and centre as a comparably active internet user. Features like address aliases are also pretty neat. If i need to put my email down for 10% discount in a restaurant, i just put [email protected], receive the voucher code, eat my cake, then bundle it onto my auto-spam filter so i never see it again.
 
jimmybell said:
If i need to put my email down for 10% discount in a restaurant, i just put [email protected], receive the voucher code, eat my cake, then bundle it onto my auto-spam filter so i never see it again.
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That is a basic Gmail feature as well

... and I know of lots of accounts that operate using Gmail to "send as", and none of them have trouble. Fact is Google is the largest email provider in the world at the moment, and if the system didn't work they wouldn't offer it. I get the "theory" of what you say but the fact is it works well and a large percentage of people use it without issue.
 
ok, but doesn't that depend on how you set it up?

I have a googlemail address lets say [email protected] and my domain address [email protected] which is set to simply set to forward to [email protected]

I also have an actual account [email protected] through which I can send email - and set googlemail up to use that to send mail from [email protected] (or indeed any other of my domains).

In effect nobody even gets to see that I have a googlemail address as I don't use googlemails smtp servers...
 
gannet said:
Disca said:
markeg said:
Lots of other extensions available now, Disca :)
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I like the idea of an oldschool .com / .co.uk though.

I think the company has brought up quite a few of them as things like .email are also in use
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you could use a combination of your initials plus surname, with some punction? its what I've had to do given my whole name seems quite common...
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hmm could have m-askew.com, just isn't as simple as I'd have liked! Can't be too picky though I guess..
 
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