Email Forwarding

Newcad

Nope it is not a first year offer, it's the standard anual price (£9.99 +VAT) for my 'dot'.
I have had this same domain since 2016.

The one-year domain offers at Ionos are currently £1 for the first year.
https://www.ionos.co.uk/domains/web-domain
Anual prices after that depend on what 'dot' you have chosen.

Yes their email packages can be bought seperately, but if you register a domain with them it comes with mail basic included.
Like I say mine has a 12GB mail quota for just the domain price.

Hermann

Newcad said:

Nope it is not a first year offer, it's the standard anual price (£9.99 +VAT) for my 'dot'.
I have had this same domain since 2016.

The one-year domain offers at Ionos are currently £1 for the first year.
https://www.ionos.co.uk/domains/web-domain
Anual prices after that depend on what 'dot' you have chosen.

Yes their email packages can be bought seperately, but if you register a domain with them it comes with mail basic included.
Like I say mine has a 12GB mail quota for just the domain price.

Apologies, I see now you just register the domain and have a single email address included with the domain registration fee, so that could be a value option if you only need the one email address for your own domain.

I typically have numerous 'disposal' addresses on my own domain and redirect those to a single Gmail address but your way of multiple Gmails to one domain email works as well with the possible exception that the Gmail address you would ideally use may already be taken but that may not be an issue for disposable addresses.

Newcad

Hermann said:

... you just register the domain and have a single email address included with the domain registration fee, so that could be a value option if you only need the one email address for your own domain.

I have 2 different email addresses/inboxes registered on my domain already, it's 5 addresses total and so I could add up to another 3 - But I now use a different option anyway;
If you set the 'Catch All' on your webmail account then it will catch any email sent to that domain.

For example:
name1@mydomain, name2@mydomain, tismypedname@mydomain, any_name_at_all@mydomain
With 'Catch All' enabled they will all be delivered to the same inbox; of course you have to sort them from there (into seperate folders if that's what you want.

Note the 'tismypedname'; if someone mistypes your name then with 'Catch All'  as long as the domain is correct you will still get it.

PS. That 12 GB quota -  Checking my Ionos account profile I do have an extra 10 GB added to my email quota, which is why I have 12 GB rather than the 'standard' 2 GB per email address.
I'm not paying any more for that extra 10 GB though. It got it added permanently as a loyalty reward when renewing after the discounted first year.

I guess that's fair enough, if you're only paying the discounted first year price you get 2 GB mail quota, carry on at normal price and get the extra.
TBH I print off important emails and keep a pretty clean inbox anyway, I hardly ever reach more than 1 GB quota in use at any time.

ThePirates

123Reg have now cancelled my email forwarding, I don't need anything complicated just forward email from my pirate@mydomain.com to pirate@gmail.com
Any thoughts?

onomatopoeia99

ThePirates said:

123Reg have now cancelled my email forwarding, I don't need anything complicated just forward email from my pirate@mydomain.com to pirate@gmail.com
Any thoughts?

You can point your domain's MX records at gmail's servers and they will receive your email and send it to your gmail address, for free.

It's a bit more complicated to configure than I have outlined but the process adn requirements are fully documented by google.

bob2302

onomatopoeia99 said:

You can point your domain's MX records at gmail's servers and they will receive your email and send it to your gmail address, for free.

That would be having you email hosted at gmail, not sending it to your gmail address. It used to to be free a long time ago, but I don't think it is anymore.

Newcad

It depends who the 'mydomain.com' email / webmail is hosted by.

Open your 'mydomain' email portal and look in the help for how to automatically forward received emails to elsewhere.

spile

Hosting.uk.net offer email hosting for £1.66 a month

michele-p

I've just come across this thread, as I discovered today the free email forwarding with the 20+ 123 reg domains I have has ended. I'm not sure they communicated this effectively - only that I had a call from them a month or so ago about mailboxes which I didn't have. I"ve only ever used to forward messages to an existing inbox elsewhere.

I'll now have to inform my customers, who I host websites for that those with a free domain name email forward don't work all of a sudden! I really don't want to transfer all those domains elsewhere - so I suppose the option is to offer them all the lowest price tier of 123 reg email, or suggest they use their gmail/hotmail email and not have a domain based one. 

Plus all the domains are in my account - I might have to get them to set up their own 123 username and transfer each domain to each customer. 

Deep breath, and off to let people know....

fiendishlyclever

If your customers don't mind webmail and an app, send them to Zoho. You have to pay for IMAP etc but the free offer looks attractive.