setting my domain email

wallofbeans

razord said:

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)

I’ve never quite liked their Mail app. Maybe I should take another look though, I’ve not checked it for a couple of years and it might have changed. 

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.

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.

Yeah, that’s what I’m doing and it doesn’t like it, not sending emails from my domain email address unless I’m on my WiFi. It refuses to send when using data. 

wallofbeans

OK, so if I can do this with a free gmail account (that comes with 15gb of storage) then what is the point of paid for email hosting services? 

razord

wallofbeans said:

OK, so if I can do this with a free gmail account (that comes with 15gb of storage) then what is the point of paid for email hosting services? 

Paid email services ditch the forwarding element, and so its (in theory) easier and more reliable to send and receive email from your custom domain. They receive email directly for your domain rather than it hitting 123 reg first (who might not be the most reliable or performant).

wallofbeans

razord said:

wallofbeans said:

OK, so if I can do this with a free gmail account (that comes with 15gb of storage) then what is the point of paid for email hosting services? 

Paid email services ditch the forwarding element, and so its (in theory) easier and more reliable to send and receive email from your custom domain. They receive email directly for your domain rather than it hitting 123 reg first (who might not be the most reliable or performant).

Interesting. Thanks. So I should perhaps try it out with gmail, see how it goes, and if I feel the need to have a more reliable service look to doing the iCloud+ thing or similar in a few months? 

razord

wallofbeans said:

Interesting. Thanks. So I should perhaps try it out with gmail, see how it goes, and if I feel the need to have a more reliable service look to doing the iCloud+ thing or similar in a few months? 

Yeh, sounds good. no rush on this stuff, so you can just see what works for you and go from there.

400ixl

Gmail will be very reliable, iCloud will be no more reliable as it is essentially the same thing.

I have had mine set up with Gmail for over a decade and no issues whatsoever.

wallofbeans

I've got a new email address. And am trying to set it up with Thunderbird, but am getting a username / password not accepted error. Any advice?

wallofbeans

Got it to work (ish) by using OAuth2 authentication method.

But I've just sent an email to another address and it's showing the gmail email address and not my domain one...

I can send an email to my domain email from elsewhere and it arrives... but sending outgoing reveals the gmail account underneath... 

Hmmm...

flashg67

I use www.freehosting.com just to have a personal domain email address that I can send & receive from, never used their website hosting though