Domain Name email

Some domain registrars offer free e-mail hosting with the domain. Some don't

It depends who you go with.

On the whole, you should really be looking at getting a basic hosting package that will do everything when you purchase the domain.

Most hosts can provide you with both services - or you can buy the domain separately from a registrar and point it to the hosting.

For a really basic hosting package, expect to pay around £2 to £4 a month.

Most domain registrars will provide free email forwarding, this means that your can forward the email to a free Gmail email account or ISP email address for example.

Your domain registrar/web host will provide you with details on setting up either a mail client (Outlook, Outlook Express, Thunderbird) or will give you access to a webmail facility.

I dont know about other firms that sell domain names but I have always used www.1and1.co.uk

When you buy a domain name from them you get pop3 alias's so if you registered www.joe-e.com then you can set up I think its 100 pop3 alias's per domain name as part of the package and not pay any extra for it. I recall you only pay if you want them to host and hold the emails.

So you can then have
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
etc etc

All you then do is point it at what email address you want it sending to so if you are using Outlook for instance at xxx@virgin_(we're_awful)_media_people.co.uk then the address will pop up in your normal inbox.

On the accounts button of Outlook you can set set up new accounts (pm me and I'll talk you through it) so that when you send a reply you can send it from your personal account as the sender or your joe-.com account as the sender. So in the recipients inbox they'll see an email from [email protected]

You can also set up with the 1and1 mail auto responders so that if you get an email sent to [email protected] the sender will automatically receive an email by return that says whatever you want it to say, ie, 'Thanks for your enquiry. We aim to get back to you in no more than 24 hours as we are rushed off our feet at the moment so it may be our New York office that handles it '


I have loads of domain names registered and have used 1and1 for years and have never had any problem with them and have never known their servers to go down either.

Hope that helps. As I said, pm me if you want a walk through on setting up your Outlook to receive the emails

Tim

Joe E said:

Thanks guys for the advice but how do I get it to read info@ etc?

Thanks again

Joe E

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If you've bought email hosting with the domain, they will give you the settings to use for your outlook/entourage/iphone etc

if you've not bought email hosting, but have free email forwarding, then they will just forward email sent to you to your listed account email address (your ntlworld or bt or gmail or hotmail or whatever you signed up with)

You may find you have issues sending replies back using your desired email address if you dont purchase email hosting (not all webmail providers allow you to set your reply to address fully)

J

Joe E said:

Thanks guys for the advice but how do I get it to read info@ etc?

Thanks again

Joe E

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Joe, It really does depend on what you have bought, and who from.

You need to ask the hosting company what you have and how you can use it.

If you have email facilities with your domain, or even simple email forwarding, you shoud be able to set up a "catch-all" address. This allows you to set up anything before the @ symbol. This would allow you to have sales@ info@ joe@ etc etc etc

POP3 aliases do the same thing, but are more useful if you wish to have different people receive different emails - e.g you may want emails addressed to joe@, with someone else getting emails addressed to info@ and someone else again getting sales@

Each POP3 mailbox then has differenmt log-on credentials, allowing several PCs to receive the emails, depending on the set-up.

Again, the best people to advise what you can do is the email hosting company.

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