Domain Registration with Email - personal, not business

fwor

I've made the mistake of ignoring this for months now, and it looks like I'm suddenly going to have to find a solution.

The problem is that for years I've registered my (personal use only) domain name with one of the companies that offered unlimited email addresses bundled in. But it seems that nobody does this any more - or not that I can find. The current hosting company just seemed to let it ride - and so did I, because the dozen or so email addresses kept working - even though the Cpanel access to managed them stopped working - so I just let it ride. And now all my email addresses have suddenly stopped working, which is a pain.

So... can anyone suggest a cost-effect way to solve this, without having to buy an expensive business-class email hosting service? I don't really want to go with a solution which involves running my own mail server - mainly because I don't want to have to deal with the security implications.

bubieyehyeh

I have a domain with them, but run my own email server, but they can do it for £1.67/month https://www.mythic-beasts.com/hosting

fwor

My Thick Beasts? Thanks! - never heard of them, but it's fairly cheap for unlimited accounts. May have to go with that, and transfer the domain to them. In the overall scheme of things £1.67 a month isn't bad at all.

fwor

So... is this correct? That now if you've registered your own domain name, you really do have to go to some unknown hosting provider, because none of the well-known companies bundle in any email support? Why is that?

Farway

fwor said:

I've made the mistake of ignoring this for months now, and it looks like I'm suddenly going to have to find a solution.

The problem is that for years I've registered my (personal use only) domain name with one of the companies that offered unlimited email addresses bundled in. But it seems that nobody does this any more - or not that I can find. The current hosting company just seemed to let it ride - and so did I, because the dozen or so email addresses kept working - even though the Cpanel access to managed them stopped working - so I just let it ride. And now all my email addresses have suddenly stopped working, which is a pain.

So... can anyone suggest a cost-effect way to solve this, without having to buy an expensive business-class email hosting service? I don't really want to go with a solution which involves running my own mail server - mainly because I don't want to have to deal with the security implications.

Care to say who you are wiht, just in case I'm in same boat but don't know it?

I'm with 123reg BTW

esuhl

I use a free email host (GMX) with my domain name.  The only issue is authenticating with SMTP servers to send mail from my domain.  Ive set this up with my domestic ISP (Sky), so everything works perfectly at home.  I can't send emails from my domain when I'm away from the house, though.

fwor

Farway said:

Care to say who you are wiht, just in case I'm in same boat but don't know it?

I'm with 123reg BTW

It wouldn't be fair to name the provider - the situation came about historically as part of a website hosting project which never happened. I couldn't say with conviction that it was their fault - it's just one of those things that happens as plans change.

Thanks for the suggestions - in the end I went with the Mythical Beasties - no problems so far, and they have been responsive to the questions I had for them.