Email on own domain

TerryTibbs_3

Hi All,
I was just wondering what the best way was to set up email on my own domain. I don't actually own a domain yet, but need to buy one soon. Assume for sake of argument its going to be "terrytibbs.co.uk"

I want to be able to access any email sent to [EMAIL="anything@terrytibbs.co.uk"]anything@terrytibbs.co.uk[/EMAIL] .
I've seen the 123-reg site but they only seem to give you one email address, i.e. [EMAIL="somethingfixed@terrytibbs.co.uk"]somethingfixed@terrytibbs.co.uk[/EMAIL]

I'd like to be able to download messages into Outlook via POP. I'd also like to be able to block certain emails (e.g. if I get spam at one of the email addresses). Anyone know the best way to do all of this?

Many thanks
TT

[Deleted User]

You don't want to receive email that is directed to anything@domain.com or you'll be swamped with hundreds of thousands of spam emails.

Do you need any web hosting, or are you just looking for email hosting?

TerryTibbs_3

anewhope wrote: »

You don't want to receive email that is directed to [EMAIL="anything@domain.com"]anything@domain.com[/EMAIL] or you'll be swamped with hundreds of thousands of spam emails.

Do you need any web hosting, or are you just looking for email hosting?

Do you mean that just having a domain name (and not giving out any email addresses) will be enough to generate a deluge of spam? The main reason I want to do this is so that I can have a unique email per contact. So for example I'd have MSE@terrytibbs.co.uk for my moneysavingexpert account. Now were moneysavingexpert be unscrupulous enough to sell my email to spammers, I would know who was responsible and simply block the address (just using MSE as an example).

Initially I need email hosting only. I may need web hosting somewhere down the line though.

Many thanks,
TT

[Deleted User]

Spam messages will be fired off towards any combination of username towards a domain in the hope of reaching an active mailbox, so it's a case of the bots that handle the generation rather than website owners for respected sites, such as this :money:

isofa

TerryTibbs wrote: »

Do you mean that just having a domain name (and not giving out any email addresses) will be enough to generate a deluge of spam? The main reason I want to do this is so that I can have a unique email per contact. So for example I'd have [EMAIL="MSE@terrytibbs.co.uk"]MSE@terrytibbs.co.uk[/EMAIL] for my moneysavingexpert account. Now were moneysavingexpert be unscrupulous enough to sell my email to spammers, I would know who was responsible and simply block the address (just using MSE as an example).

Most domain companies (including 123-reg) providing this as part of the domain registration. I think you can have up to 100 email forwards setup on a domain at 123-reg, so you can have:

[EMAIL="MSE@terrytibbs.co.uk"]MSE@terrytibbs.co.uk[/EMAIL] and set this to route to [EMAIL="yourispaccount@yourisp.com"]yourispaccount@yourisp.com[/EMAIL]
[EMAIL="personal@terrytibbs.co.uk"]personal@terrytibbs.co.uk[/EMAIL] to [EMAIL="yourispaccount@yourisp.com"]yourispaccount@yourisp.com[/EMAIL]
[EMAIL="terry@terrytibbs.co.uk"]terry@terrytibbs.co.uk[/EMAIL] to [EMAIL="yourispaccount@yourisp.com"]yourispaccount@yourisp.com[/EMAIL] (or any other addresses)
etc.

You can also purchase POP3 boxes from all domain hosts if you want true separate accounts to check.

You can set any username not found to bounce straight back, so if someone mailed [EMAIL="terrie@terrytibbs.co.uk"]terrie@terrytibbs.co.uk[/EMAIL] (and it wasn't setup) it would bounce.

Or you can have a catch-all email, where you don't specify the addresses, but [EMAIL="anything@terrytibbs.co.uk"]anything@terrytibbs.co.uk[/EMAIL] can be forwarded to yourisp email (or any other address) - but I'd avoid this, you'll get too much spam, and won't be able to separate out accounts for MSE and other websites.

K9ine

I use 123-reg web forwarding. I.e. emails are not stored by 123-reg for me but our forwarded to wherever I like.

You can have UNLIMITED forwarding addresses. And also each can be forwarded to THREE addresses. I.e. emails sent to committee@domain.co.uk can be forwarded to president@yahoo.co.uk, secretary@gmail.com and treasurer@hotmail.com.

There are a four options for 'unknown' addresses. 1) Reject, 2) Reject with assistance address, 3) forward to user@other.domain, or 4) forward to fixed@other.domain

I use 2) reject with assistance address which returns the email with a working email address. I change this assistance email every year such as help-2008@mydomain.co.uk

Most of my emails are forwarded to yahoo or gmail which have reasonable spam filters. However if using a webmail service you have to set up addresses that you wish to send emails from. Therefore I only have a few such addresses: eg. ad@mydomain.co.uk, list@mydomain.co.uk, friend@mydomain.co.uk, comp@mydomain.co.uk etcetera...

I haven't actually got too much spam over the years and yahoo and gmail are much better at spotting it than they used to be

M4RKM

i'm not keen on email forwarding... i prefer having individual email boxes... you should be able to find some cheap/free cpanel hosting that will give you what you need.. you might even get some web space too...

also, my cpanel host, does have spam assasin.. which is really good..

M

TerryTibbs_3

Thanks for your input guys, its been very helpful. Someone suggested geekdata to me, and I can see its cpanel, but its £2.99 a month. Ideally I'd have liked £2 or cheaper (this is MSE after all!)

Any suggestions? Is £2.99 as cheap as it will get?

GaryS

I have my own domain name, and have recently moved it to RelicHost.

Price seems very competitive and they provide a good deal of options.

This allows me to have as many email address options that I want, with each one having its own password and logon via an email client or via webmail.

TerryTibbs_3

Wow - thanks for that Gary - just looked up RelicHost. Their Bronze package is only £6 a year!! Fantastic Bargain.

The only downside I can see is that they don't mention anything about spam filtering. Other than that it seems ideal.

What package are you on btw, and do you have spam filtering?

Many thanks,
TT

ryandj

1and1 is quite good, you can have unlimited email addresses pretty much I think.

If you don't have a website at Terry Tibbs (talk to me, wooden ladders) then you probably won't get spam to all email addresses. You can also set up your email to catch all (so if someone writes to [EMAIL="admin@terrytibbs.com"]admin@terrytibbs.com[/EMAIL], [EMAIL="randomword@terrytibbs.com"]randomword@terrytibbs.com[/EMAIL] or [EMAIL="loser@terrytibbs.com"]loser@terrytibbs.com[/EMAIL] the mail will get through) or to only deliver to email addresses oyu have registered. The second option is best!