setting my domain email

wallofbeans

Hi All,

I've been meaning to figure this out for a while, but I need to sort out a way of using my domain email smoothly. Currently I've got it being forwarded to an email address set up with my broadband provider, but this doesn't work great - only seeming to allow me to send messages when I am on my home wifi.

I've heard that if I pay for email access with somewhere like Zoho then I can make this work well. But I'm really confused about what I need to pay for and where the best place to get it is... Can anyone advise? I've tried googling but I'm not sure what I'm asking so am getting limited results...

Thanks..

mluton

Most domain providers do email for cheap, Who is the domain with ?

wallofbeans

It’s 123 Reg. 

Sandtree

Do you have a website connected to your domain? Who's hosting that? Most web hosting packages include email and so you typically dont need anything extra but there are a minority where its an additional cost. 

wallofbeans

I have a holding page for the domain, but no website. I just got it for the email '@mydomainname.co.uk' so just want to be able to receive and send reply emails from that email address on my computer and phone. That's it.

wallofbeans

I pay a fee every few years to 123 reg for the domian name. And I can forward emails to another email address via their site.

So if someone emails my domain email it gets forwarded to an email I set up with my ISP. And the same the other way, I can send emails from my domain email and the person getting them will only see that email address. 

It used to work smoothly with my last ISP but it's now become a pain, it will recieive emails fine, but if I want to reply it will only let me send them when I'm on my WIFI - so replying from my phone doesn't work when I'm out of the house.

I thought doing it separately would solve this. 

Sandtree

wallofbeans said:

I pay a fee every few years to 123 reg for the domian name. And I can forward emails to another email address via their site.

Then you may as well look at 123-reg's email hosting offering that starts at £1.50ish per month.

There can be various other options depending what other services you already buy... Apple give you 3 custom domains via their mail solution if you are subscribing to their higher tier iCloud for example.

wallofbeans

I'd like to be able to add the email to Thunderbird that I use currently on my computer. And to the mail app on my iphone.

Sandtree

wallofbeans said:

I'd like to be able to add the email to Thunderbird that I use currently on my computer. And to the mail app on my iPhone.

which you can do via 123-reg's offering... they are providing the server and you connect to it via IMAP to get your emails on your chosen local client (I imagine they have webmail too)

wallofbeans

Sandtree said:

wallofbeans said:

I pay a fee every few years to 123 reg for the domian name. And I can forward emails to another email address via their site.

Then you may as well look at 123-reg's email hosting offering that starts at £1.50ish per month.

There can be various other options depending what other services you already buy... Apple give you 3 custom domains via their mail solution if you are subscribing to their higher tier iCloud for example.

I can get a lot cheaper than that through Zoho (and I assume others) - they start at 80p per month as far as I can tell. 

I still don't quite understand what I need to make what I want to do work? So it's email hosting I'm looking for?

Zoho mentions 5gb and 10gb options on their most basic plan - but I don't quite get 5gb of what? And how much do I need?

It also confusingly then mentions 'add ons' and offers "mail 5gb £14.40 /unit /year" and I don't know what that means or why it is that price?

I guessI should do some googling for email hosting now I know what I am trying to do is called!

littleboo

5Gb means 5Gb of means storage, ie the size of your mail box which is every email and every attachment that you have either in the Inbox or other folders. That's per user, so if you have john@yourdomain.com and also mary@yourdomain.com, that would be two email accounts, each with 5Gb of storage