Who to use for email hosting?

**Utemad** · 19th April 2008, 03:17 PM

Hello IT people.

I want to set up an email account (maybe 4 or 5) that is able to do POP3 stuff (using Eudora) but totally separate from my internet provider.

The main reason is I want to be able to change my provider to get a better deal every so often but not lose my email addresses.

I googled this and came up with 50 million or so different places. No idea who to choose.

Originally I thought there would be a way to have an address such as justin@myplace.com that would just forward everything it received to my nominated account. Like a front for whatever email account I happened to be using at the time.
However I see that companies will host a domain name for you only for email.

So costs would be
domain name registration
whatever the company charges for email hosting (seems around $20/year).

Any ideas on what I should be doing?

Thanks.

**abaddonxi** · 19th April 2008, 04:29 PM

I use Smartyhost

SmartyHost - Web Hosting and Domain Name Registration

Did a com.au domain name for $40 for two years, or something, plus an extra $20 for email hosting. I think that's for 10 x 1Mb email addresses. I get them all forwarded to my isp email address, so the email hosting is just a pass-through with no storage.

It hasn't been a problem for the last couple of years. It took a few days to set up, but that was mostly because I was transferring the domain name from another provider.

Cheers
Simon

**p38arover** · 19th April 2008, 04:32 PM

What about a Gmail address?

**moose** · 19th April 2008, 08:23 PM

^^ I'm with him. I use gmail, never had a problem switching ISP's. POP3 no prob's, used to have it set up thru outlook express (now mozilla firefox).
Its free, can access it from anywhere, it's free, lot's of online space (6gb last I looked), decent spam filter, and it's free!

**Bush65** · 19th April 2008, 09:01 PM

I changed to gmail for similar reasons http://www.gmail.com

**Utemad** · 19th April 2008, 10:09 PM

Thanks Simon I'll look into that one.

As for Gmail I've never looked into it before as I didn't know you could use POP3. I'll have a look before I spend any money on other things.

Do you get Google advertising through Gmail? or spam?

With my current provider I get HEAPS of spam as you have to pay another $4 per email account for their proper spam filter. Which I don't as I'd rather hit delete 24355245 times than pay them for something that should be included.

**moose** · 19th April 2008, 10:44 PM

Originally Posted by Utemad

Do you get Google advertising through Gmail? or spam?

I very rarely get spam thru gmail to firefox, if on the rare occasion I do, I go to the online account, mark the email as spam and it updates the spam filter. Never seen google advertising on it either.

**HangOver** · 19th April 2008, 11:21 PM

try Yahoo it does pop3, I've used it for at least 7 years

**p38arover** · 19th April 2008, 11:23 PM

The only problem with Yahoo and Gmail that I see as Admin on RRNET, is that most of the spam registrations use those addresses. Rarely do I see a genuine registration from them.

**abaddonxi** · 20th April 2008, 07:16 AM

I had a look at Gmail when I was doing all this stuff, and it's a wonderful thing, but from what I can see, if you want to have your own domain name, and have the email hosted, then you have to pay $50 a year for Google Apps Premier.

Cheers
Simon

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