Domain for emails only

chunter

Not easy finding a cheap, decent .co.uk registrar these days. They all seem to be looking for 15-16 quid (including VAT) for the two years.

chunter

Emails, if you are using IMAP especially, can take up more space on a server these days too. Probably far more than your average little website.

EdwardB

chunter wrote: »

Not easy finding a cheap, decent .co.uk registrar these days. They all seem to be looking for 15-16 quid (including VAT) for the two years.

That is quite easy, register at an address outside the EU so no VAT payable, then use US registrars that do one year at a time.

psychic_teabag

rmg1 wrote: »

Hi all

I've currently got a GMail account I use for all my emails (with some of the +whatever extensions).

Oh - thanks - didn't know you could do that !

plusnet allows something similar, which is what I use.

I've been toying with the idea of buying a domain with (relatively) unlimited email addresses in order to separate things out a bit more.

With the GMail account, I can receive emails to myname+wherever@GMail .com but I can't figure out how to send from myname+wherever@GMail .com.

I was hoping that by buying my own domain, I'd be able to do that fairly easily.

What exactly is it that you want to achieve that you think using your own domain would do ? What sort of separation is it that you want to acheive ? Do you want to hide the "myname+" prefix from your addresses ? Do you want to be able to presort / filter incoming mail by the address it was delivered to ?


I used to use gmail as my outgoing mailer - it does allow you to associate multiple gmail addresses with an account. It did allow you to send mail with other from addresses, but it renamed the original From: header and added its own from: header for the account your were logging in as, which wasn't much use.

I now use the plusnet server, since it seems to accept pretty much anything in the from: field, as long as you are connecting from your own plusnet broadband connection (so they can associate the outgoing message with your account, presumably, in case you are generating spam).

Do you use gmail web interface, or a separate client program ? I was recently pointed at claws as a mail client which lets you edit the from: address, and it works well for me. I'd be very surprised if the gmail smtp server does not recognise myname+whatever@gmail.com as a valid from address for the 'myname' account.

EDIT: apparently not - did a quick test adding a gmail account to claws. Sent from me+test@gmail.com, authenticating as me@gmail.com. But gmail changed the from: into me@gmail.com and added a header x-google-original-from: me+test@gmail.com. So that's not much use.

rmg1

I just want a bit more separation in my emails (especially work and personal and I didn't want to set up a new email address just for work stuff).

I'm registered with that many websites these days, I wanted a way to completely differentiate between them all but still have them in one place.

I also wanted a way to block an address if a site gets hacked and I start getting a lot of spam (and I can track where it's come from easier).

I didn't know about GMAIL altering the headers so thanks for that.

rmg1

Thought I'd resurrect this thread.
I've found 1&1 are doing hosting for £1.19/month (including VAT) and that includes a domain name.

Link to hosting is:-
https://www.1and1.co.uk/web-hosting


That would give me 500 addresses (more than enough) with 2GB of emails each.

That sounds cheap to me.

1st question - am I reading everything correctly?
2nd question - do I log on through them or can I use Thunderbird to collect the lot?
3rd question - can I have some sort of catch-all address?

As you may have gathered, I've never done this before so any help would be greatly appreciated.

rmg1

@DavidP24 - Thanks for that. I've replied to your PM.

wongataa

rmg1 wrote: »

2nd question - do I log on through them or can I use Thunderbird to collect the lot?

yes you will be able to use your preferred email client programme on a computer. All you need to do is add the relevant account details to the email client. Your email hosting service will let you know what these are.

rmg1

So I could use Thunderbird to collect everything from rmgmail (for example)?
How do I set it up to reply from the same address as the incoming mail (if that makes sense)?

rmg1

Just got the renewal fee from one.com.
It breaks down as :-
Annual domain fee - renewal (.co.uk) 7.00 GBP
Web Space Starter (25 GB) - 12 months 18.96 GBP

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Total excl. VAT 25.96 GBP
VAT (20%) 5.19 GBP

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Total incl. VAT 31.15 GBP

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Any thoughts?

::edit::
Don't need to stay with them though, it's only a 12-month copntract.