Help I want my own email address

mo_ro

I have been with madasafish for three years. Great service but very expensive. Now I want to move to O2 as it is more cost effective and getting good reviews. However, I don't want a new O2 email account. I want to set up my own email account so that whichever provider I am with I can use the same personal address without having to change each time. What is the best way to do this? I want to be able to use MS-Outlook and for the ISP to recognise the personal account. Will I be able to do this and what is the best way? I've got my MAC key so I'm raring to go.

Browntoa

get a gmail account

https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=mail&passive=true&rm=false&continue=http%3A%2F%2Fmail.google.com%2Fmail%2F%3Fui%3Dhtml%26zy%3Dl&bsv=zpwhtygjntrz&scc=1&ltmpl=default&ltmplcache=2

mo_ro

Thanks for replying so quickly. I've had a quick look at the link. How will it work? I set up a Gmail account and then ask for the emails to be forwarded to the O2 account?

456789

you could forward to the o2 account but their is no need

just set outlook to receive the gmail messages

inside101

mo_ro wrote: »

How will it work? I set up a Gmail account and then ask for the emails to be forwarded to the O2 account?

Once you've got your Gmail account and logged in, do the following...

• Click on Settings (top right of your gmail page)
  
• Click on Forwarding and POP/IMAP
  
• Go through each option of the POP Download section...
  1. Status
     Select Enable POP for mail that arrives from now on.
  2. When messages are accessed with POP
     Choose to either keep, archive or delete emails after they've been downloaded to Outlook.
     
  3. Configure your email client
     Click the Configuration instructions link, select your version of Outlook and carefully follow the instructions.
     
• Don't forget to click the Save Changes button when you're done.

Good luck!

Jemma-T

https://www.123-reg.co.uk register your own website (no need to make one) and you will forever own the domain name for £2-£3 a year. So if you set up a name of myrealemail.co.uk you can have yourname@myrealemail.co.uk diverted to any other email. This is an easy to do setting and I use it.

Or get a https://www.hotmail.co.uk email. I use Hotmail and divert some emails to it. Hotmail now allows you to use POP email too.

I never trust my ISP with email because their job is broadband supply. Stick with email providers for email. Plenty free good ones as mentioned. Check out https://www.mail.com too as they have loads of good free domains.

mrJ_5

why divert when you can just pick up and send from your own email account?

Farway

mrJ wrote: »

why divert when you can just pick up and send from your own email account?

Comes in handy when you have to supply an e-mail address to a company which may just think it is doing you a favour by sending out newsletters every other day [spam]

If this happens then I just deselect the mail name :j

mrJ_5

if that, why not just do [EMAIL="companyname@youremailaddress.com"]companyname@youremailaddress.com[/EMAIL] and forward that to your main [EMAIL="myrealemail@youremailaddress.com"]myrealemail@youremailaddress.com[/EMAIL] email address.... then all you need to do is delete the forwarding rule when they sending you undesirables (though any law abiding website/company that you signup to should have an opt-out method), plus, you get to see who passes on your details...

Santiago_3

I use gmx.com for email. You can access via webmail or through you email client on your computer