On changing your email address

securityguy

onomatopoeia99 wrote: »

Or you could run your own mail server and point the MX record for the domain at that. Then you can have unlimited email addresses on that domain.

A Raspberry Pi with a raspian install has more than sufficient processing power to handle exim as the MTA and something like courier as a pop3 or imap server. You could even install apache and run roundcube on that to provide a webmail interface. And it'll run from AA batteries, or a phone charger.

If you've had an email address for 20 years though, it's easier to move house than change it.

Requires a fixed IP number, however. Running your email via dyndys is extremely risky.

Uxb

I recall seeing somewhere - possibly on here that the straightforward email forwarding and no hosting is becoming restricted and not offered.
I can't remember if this is simply costs or whether there is some security/virus/spam etc protection issue.
I'm sure maintaining "credibility" of the hosting company email servers with the various third party spam swatting companies vetting email has something to do with it.

Collabora

securityguy wrote: »

You can just direct the mail to gmail, however, which won't cost you anything. Almost all registrars provide mail forwarding free, even if they charge for mail hosting.

regulations have all changed over the last few months, mail forwarding etc. are becoming chargeable services.

securityguy

Collabora wrote: »

regulations have all changed over the last few months, mail forwarding etc. are becoming chargeable services.

Someone should tell, for example, Namesco, who are offering not only forwarding but also hosting, included with registration. And that was just the first registrar that came to mind.

Collabora

securityguy wrote: »

Someone should tell, for example, Namesco, who are offering not only forwarding but also hosting, included with registration. And that was just the first registrar that came to mind.

Well they would have been informed by ICANN about these. i stated

are becoming chargeable services.

A lot of domain addons like Privacy setting, DNS settings, forwarding that for years have been free are all becoming chargeable.
Some companies will swallow these extra costs initially, i know i am as these charges are very small (currently privacy is the only one chargeable) others will become chargeable at some point in 2015.

But even though these have been free for years anyone selling domains had the option to make a charge for these, but now it means that the domain seller will be charged if these services are requested when a domain is registered, but the reseller could still offer these free if they are willing to swallow the cost

esuhl

Collabora wrote: »

Not TRUE. yes you can register a domain, but this in itself does not give you any email addresses.

To use it for emails you will also need to purchase email hosting ( a hosting plan that only allows you to set up email accounts and these will be limited such as https://www.123-reg.co.uk/email-hosting/personal-email-packages.shtml

Nonsense! The domain you registered can be used to forward emails to a free account -- you don't need to purchase email hosting.

I pay £2 or £3 a year for my domain name with 123-reg. I then set up "catch all" email forwarding to my GMX email account, and run filters to sort emails into folders -- one for each recipient at the domain.

So many people seem to be confused by this that they end up buying expensive email hosting from their domain registrar, which is completely unnecessary.

Collabora

This is the email notice i received from my provider, Lucky our billing system only meant i have to change 1 line of code to apply charges

Change in Privacy Protect service/ DNS Management and Email Forwarding service:

Due to the forthcoming change in ICANN’s policy, the overhead costs of providing the Privacy Protect service/ DNS Management and Email Forwarding service will increase substantially. Starting soon, we will be charging an annual fee of $3 per domain name for our Privacy Protect service. With most Providers in the market charging as high as $6 per year, you could offer this as a chargeable service and still earn a profit on it! / DNS Management and Email Forwarding service will become chargeable service by the of 2015

Please Note:

For domain names that are already registered and use Privacy Protect service, no charge shall be levied till the domain name expires, or until the next renewal, whichever is earlier. At the time of renewal of the domain name, you will have the flexibility of not renewing Privacy Protect along with the domain name.
For domains names that are already registered and do not use Privacy Protect service, upon activation of this service, charges shall be applied on a pro-rata basis till the domain expires.
For any new domain registrations opting for Privacy Protection service, above mentioned annual charges will be applicable.
The duration of this service will be the same as the duration of the domain name it is associated with.

esuhl

^^ It sounds like they're planning to charge for the "Privacy Protect" service on domains that use DNS management and email forwarding.

If the ICANN changes they're referring to are the "Whois Accuracy Program", then it will just be registrants using the "Privacy Protect" service who will be charged -- not every registrant using email forwarding... I think... :-/

Collabora

esuhl wrote: »

^^ It sounds like they're planning to charge for the "Privacy Protect" service on domains that use DNS management and email forwarding.

If the ICANN changes they're referring to are the "Whois Accuracy Program", then it will just be registrants using the "Privacy Protect" service who will be charged -- not every registrant using email forwarding... I think... :-/

NO by the end of this year they all will be chargeable, Privacy Protect is the first 1 to be chargeable. when you register a domain the registrant can offer all of these services or non of these services or just 1 of these services.
registrants like namecheap have been charging for privacy protect for years ( whois guard) now this service is chargeable to all registrants. It is upto you when you register a domain if you take any of these addons, but if you plan to have hosting with the domain, then paying for these through the registrant is a waste of money as these are all services available in hosting control panels like cpanel
So dont know what ICANN have decided to do this

esuhl

I've searched, but I can't find anything to suggest that email forwarding it going to be universally chargeable.

I found this page with details of changes to the Privacy Protect service, which contains some of the same text that you quoted... although it mentions nothing about charging for email forwarding.

http://blog.vaioweb.com/news/changes-to-privacy-protect-services/

Starting 16th April, 2014 our Official Registrar (http://www.publicdomainregistry.com/) will implement changes to make privacy protect services for domain names a paid service. Unfortunately we will also start charging an annual fee of 4.00 EUR for our Privacy Protect service. How it works:

• The annual fee of 4.00 EUR will be applicable on all Privacy Protect activations and renewals starting 23rd April
• For domain names that are already registered and use Privacy Protect service, no charge shall be levied till the domain name expires, or until the next renewal, whichever is earlier. At the time of renewal of the domain name, you will have the flexibility of not renewing Privacy Protect along with the domain name
• For domains names that are already registered and do not use Privacy Protect service, upon activation of this service, charges shall be applied on a pro-rata basis till the domain expires
• For any new domain registrations opting for Privacy Protection service, above mentioned annual charges will be applicable
• The expiry date of the Privacy Protect service will be set to match the expiry date of the domain name it is associated with
• Once Privacy Protect has been purchased for a domain, the service can be activated or de-activated any number of times at no extra cost until the expiry date of the initial purchase or deletion of the domain. This could be useful in cases of Whois verification for SSL encryption