How would i go about setting up 100 email accounts

tc1992

I need to do this for my small business. I've got about 65 outlook express accounts but they are getting impossible to access due to being asked for verification codes, which has become a glitchy process.

Can i buy a domain name, and set up the accounts somewhere along the line of . . account1@mydomain.com to account100@mydomain.com.

How much do you think that would cost?

Mistral001

A business needing so many email addresses unfortunately has the hallmarks of a spamming operation or something similar. Please tell us it is not such a business.

paddyrg

It's cheap, buy a domain, buy good hosting (the intermediate TSOHost package allows 100 mailboxes or aliases), and you're in action.

HOWEVER, it sounds like a classic wrong answer to a problem. In IT (used to be my living), when you hear a question like this you instinctively ask the client what it is they are trying to achieve, there's almost always a better way.

tc1992

hi thanks for reply, yes should have explained more fully

no, it's not some spamming thing. here is why i need them. My business is selling music and i buy some stock off ebay. You can get alerts off ebay when something you are interested in gets listed. Unfortuately you are limited to 100 alerts (followed searches) per account. So i have had to open lots of ebay accounts and corresponding outlook accounts for every 100 followed searches. I currently have 62 accounts i.e for my aprox 6200 searches.

So it is getting hard to verify them now (for suspicion of spamming as mentioned). I would like to see if it is possible to do as i described. I would basically ideally have each email forwarding to 1 email, so that i just have to look at one account to see all my search results for the day.

I have looked at specialized searching software / apps, but i can't find anything that would deal with the numbers i want to deal with (i.e 1000's of searches)

paddyrg

Hiya, OK, you're trying to get round an artificial limitation of another site, I can see your frustration!

You can get a domain to use especially, and have *all* mail to anything@ diverting to one catcher account. That way you don't need 100 mailboxes as you effectively make up the name on the fly to suit, you could even have one search per email address as anything going to the domain goes in the catchall account!

With easily.co.UK it'll cost about a tenner every couple of years and the interface isn't complicated. Other domain brokers are available and maybe cheaper, not sure about their interfaces.

sequence

paddyrg wrote: »

Hiya, OK, you're trying to get round an artificial limitation of another site, I can see your frustration!

You can get a domain to use especially, and have *all* mail to anything@ diverting to one catcher account. That way you don't need 100 mailboxes as you effectively make up the name on the fly to suit, you could even have one search per email address as anything going to the domain goes in the catchall account!

With easily.co.UK it'll cost about a tenner every couple of years and the interface isn't complicated. Other domain brokers are available and maybe cheaper, not sure about their interfaces.

This is what I do for all of my email. You can just type anything@yourdomain.com and it will work. Good for tracking who sold your email on too. They don't cost very much to keep running.

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tc1992 wrote: »

hi thanks for reply, yes should have explained more fully

no, it's not some spamming thing. here is why i need them. My business is selling music and i buy some stock off ebay. You can get alerts off ebay when something you are interested in gets listed. Unfortuately you are limited to 100 alerts (followed searches) per account. So i have had to open lots of ebay accounts and corresponding outlook accounts for every 100 followed searches. I currently have 62 accounts i.e for my aprox 6200 searches.

So it is getting hard to verify them now (for suspicion of spamming as mentioned). I would like to see if it is possible to do as i described. I would basically ideally have each email forwarding to 1 email, so that i just have to look at one account to see all my search results for the day.

I have looked at specialized searching software / apps, but i can't find anything that would deal with the numbers i want to deal with (i.e 1000's of searches)

Who are you currently using as your email provider?

Most email providers will allow you to set up auto-forwarding. Some, like gmail, allow you also the possibility to filter which emails are forwarded if you wish.
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/10957?hl=en

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sequence wrote: »

This is what I do for all of my email. You can just type [EMAIL="anything@yourdomain.com"]anything@yourdomain.com[/EMAIL] and it will work. Good for tracking who sold your email on too. They don't cost very much to keep running.

The big problem with this approach is that you do leave yourself open to lots and lots of spam as the spammer only needs to know your domain name.

InsideInsurance

I used to have a catch all email box and found it useful for similar reasons however about a month ago the spam went from a manageable 50 or so emails a day to over 10,000 a day and so I had to close it down.

On the basis of what you say you do only need one actual mailbox, this could be a catch all but you have the above risk, or alternatively you can just set up forwarders on other aliases so the defined email addresses all go to the same mailbox

novelty-socks

I do exactly this. I have a couple of addresses for my business, but anything@mydomain.com comes into my email.

I use Google Apps for my email and the spam filter there does a great job of removing the crap. I rarely see spam in my inbox and don't get many false positives either.

For OP's suggestion, if they're only interested in emails from eBay they could easily set up a filter to label these emails or put them into a specific category within Gmail.

tc1992

thanks for replies everyone, going to take a proper look at this when i have time