setting my domain email

wallofbeans

Ok, thanks. 

What does the average user need though? I can’t imagine I’ll need much, I delete old emails regularly and I assume I can set it up to download messages to my computer and delete from the server if needed? 

wallofbeans

Could I just set up a gmail account and forward to that? Or would it not work the way I needed? 

Does email hosting give something extra I need to make this work? 

razord

Don't suppose you're an iPhone user are you? If you pay for iCloud storage for photos (starting at 79p a month) you get iCloud+ which supports custom email domains.

Alternatively, if you just want a service that will take inbound email and forward it to gmail for free, you can do that with Cloudflare Email: https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-email-routing/

wallofbeans

razord said:

Don't suppose you're an iPhone user are you? If you pay for iCloud storage for photos (starting at 79p a month) you get iCloud+ which supports custom email domains.

I am an iPhone user but don’t pay for iCloud storage. I have external hard drives for backing up instead. 

But are you saying this could give me what I need for cheaper AND I get iCloud storage too? 

razord

wallofbeans said:

razord said:

Don't suppose you're an iPhone user are you? If you pay for iCloud storage for photos (starting at 79p a month) you get iCloud+ which supports custom email domains.

I am an iPhone user but don’t pay for iCloud storage. I have external hard drives for backing up instead. 

But are you saying this could give me what I need for cheaper AND I get iCloud storage too? 

Yup, exactly that... I doubt you'd find a good email host for less than 79p a month! Full details on that one here: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT212514

You can connect to your email on a PC or anything too - you're not tied into Apple's ecosystem there. Thunderbird on Windows will work just fine.

400ixl

Yes you can just use a gmail account. Create an account, forward the email to that from your provider and then set up the send as part of gmail to match your desired email address for the domain. You need to authenticate that you own the email address in Gmail but that is straight forward.

You can also set up multiple send as addresses if you wish. If the forwarding is set up for all email to the gmail account it means you can use a unique email for every site which allows you to understand which is getting spam, whether an account has been just been used by a spammer or actually compromised and then kill of that email and change it in the site it is used for.

wallofbeans

razord said:

wallofbeans said:

razord said:

Don't suppose you're an iPhone user are you? If you pay for iCloud storage for photos (starting at 79p a month) you get iCloud+ which supports custom email domains.

I am an iPhone user but don’t pay for iCloud storage. I have external hard drives for backing up instead. 

But are you saying this could give me what I need for cheaper AND I get iCloud storage too? 

Yup, exactly that... I doubt you'd find a good email host for less than 79p a month! Full details on that one here: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT212514

You can connect to your email on a PC or anything too - you're not tied into Apple's ecosystem there. Thunderbird on Windows will work just fine.

I’m using Thunderbird on my Mac! 

razord

wallofbeans said:

I’m using Thunderbird on my Mac! 

That'll also work! (Although, you could switch to Apple's mail.app if you wanted too)

wallofbeans

razord said:

Don't suppose you're an iPhone user are you? If you pay for iCloud storage for photos (starting at 79p a month) you get iCloud+ which supports custom email domains.

Alternatively, if you just want a service that will take inbound email and forward it to gmail for free, you can do that with Cloudflare Email: https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-email-routing/

Wait, the cloudflare thing sounds like what my domain with 123 Reg already does. It just seems to not like doing it with talktalk being my ISP and the email address I’m forwarding to. 

But could I just set up a new gmail account and forward to that in 123 Reg? Then set that up on my phone and Thunderbird? 

Or do I need email hosting? 

razord

wallofbeans said:

razord said:

Don't suppose you're an iPhone user are you? If you pay for iCloud storage for photos (starting at 79p a month) you get iCloud+ which supports custom email domains.

Alternatively, if you just want a service that will take inbound email and forward it to gmail for free, you can do that with Cloudflare Email: https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-email-routing/

Wait, the cloudflare thing sounds like what my domain with 123 Reg already does. It just seems to not like doing it with talktalk being my ISP and the email address I’m forwarding to. 

But could I just set up a new gmail account and forward to that in 123 Reg? Then set that up on my phone and Thunderbird? 

Or do I need email hosting? 

So are you currently forwarding from 123 Reg to your ISP email? Yeh - you could just swap that over to a Gmail address and use that everywhere.