e Mail using my own domain name - help ?

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I use PCS to host my site. £10 a year and that includes either email forwarding or downloading them directly to outlook express

http://www.penguin-uk.com/

bbb_uk

deanos wrote:

The good thing about 1&1 is it works via IMAP which keeps your messages on there server (until you delete them) , most emails are deleted when they are downloaded to outlook , it also means you can access you email while away using the 1&1 webmail

You can specify within Outlook to leave the messages on the server without deleting them. You can even specify the time of how long to leave them on the server for. I can't say I've tried this though.

Any mail sent via googlemail is also saved in the 'sent' box of googlemail itself so if Outlook crashes and you lose all your emails or something then you can still see them within googlemail's webmail service. The problem with this is that eventually your googlemail account can get full of emails.

deanos

Im not very techincal so didnt know you could leave them on the server, the webmail is handy for me if you can do that with google mail then I might have a look at googlemail if it means its free, a saving is a saving at the end of the day no matter how small

GuessWho_2

bbb_uk wrote:

I don't actually have hosting with 123-reg (my domain supplier) as that costs a lot more but instead I just forward any traffic going to my domain name to my ISP webspace. This is done invisibally (kind of) as it still displays my domain name in the URL bar of the browser even though it gets redirected to my ISP webspace (which would ordinary have a very long URL).

Yep, with 123-reg, depending on whether you choose framed or non-framed web forwarding in the control panel, you will get either the hosting address in the address bar, or displayed in a small box, next to the mouse each time a webpage is opened or refreshed.

boy, is that ever annoying? :mad:

the title in the box happens because they add this tag to the source code of the forwarding page:-

<frame title="http://domain name.co.uk/" (or similar)

and it cannot be removed by the control panel, and do you think they will remove it?


another thing, hosting with them, they add webalizer stats to the hosting package, which is fine, but it is a completely open-access folder that cannot be password proteced by the domain owner/webmaster. They locate the folder out of reach above the public access html folders

plus their support is really poor!

i am no longer a 123-reg fan

1&1 works seamlessly with web forwarding