permament email, best service?

[supertunger99]

Hi all,

I am sick of having to change email addresses. I just want one permanent email address, and I'll just forward that to any other email addresses I have. Does any one have recommendations?? Yahoo charges $10/year for 10mb mailbox and pop fowarding. It doesnt seem like too bad of a deal.

Any suggestions will be appreciated. Also, I would like to also have the option of IMAP instead of POP, so that I can check my email online at any computer.

Thanks,
Tung

 

[murphy55d]

Domain name + hosting = your own email. That's what I do.

 

[Ketteringo]

Originally posted by: murphy55d
Domain name + hosting = your own email. That's what I do.

Me too, but I really like Yahoo's free service I've had it for many years so I still have the 6MB box, only problem is no POP3 for free accounts

 

[dc]

your own domain + ripplehost.com = email for under $20 a year

 

[DaWhim]

my own domain + 1and1.com = email fo $8 a year

 

[Ameesh]

i use ureach.com, i am very happy with them

 

[glaHHg]

For those of you who want pop access to yahoo: http://yahoopops.sourceforge.net/

 

[Beattie]

http://www.fastmail.fm/

IMAP service with 10 meg mailbox for free. I have had it for a month or 2 now and I have seen 0 spam.

 

[DeviousTrap]

Your own domain + email hosting

 

[aircooled]

I use Yahoo as far as the freebies go. I have my own domain also, but havent setup email on it yet.

 

[bsmithy]

Originally posted by: Ketteringo

Originally posted by: murphy55d
Domain name + hosting = your own email. That's what I do.

Me too, but I really like Yahoo's free service I've had it for many years so I still have the 6MB box, only problem is no POP3 for free accounts

check ur settings

i use it fine

 

[supertunger99]

>> DaWhim wrote:
my own domain + 1and1.com = email fo $8 a year

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IBM X-30 - P3m 1.2ghz, 512mb ram, 40gb hdd, 12.1" scr, 5 hrs battery life = <<


1and1.com = $8/year?

How is that $8/year?

 

[DeviousTrap]

Originally posted by: supertunger99
>> DaWhim wrote:
my own domain + 1and1.com = email fo $8 a year

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IBM X-30 - P3m 1.2ghz, 512mb ram, 40gb hdd, 12.1" scr, 5 hrs battery life = <<


1and1.com = $8/year?

How is that $8/year?

1and1 is not longer free. They used to be. Thats why I am offering email hosting.

 

[DaWhim]

Originally posted by: supertunger99
>> DaWhim wrote:
my own domain + 1and1.com = email fo $8 a year

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IBM X-30 - P3m 1.2ghz, 512mb ram, 40gb hdd, 12.1" scr, 5 hrs battery life = <<


1and1.com = $8/year?

How is that $8/year?

1and1 = free webhosting for 3 years

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Add another one to the "own domain + hosting" bandwagon.

- M4H

 

[DeviousTrap]

Originally posted by: DaWhim

Originally posted by: supertunger99
>> DaWhim wrote:
my own domain + 1and1.com = email fo $8 a year

-------------------------
IBM X-30 - P3m 1.2ghz, 512mb ram, 40gb hdd, 12.1" scr, 5 hrs battery life = <<


1and1.com = $8/year?

How is that $8/year?

1and1 = free webhosting for 3 years

not anymore

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: DaWhim

Originally posted by: supertunger99
>> DaWhim wrote:
my own domain + 1and1.com = email fo $8 a year

-------------------------
IBM X-30 - P3m 1.2ghz, 512mb ram, 40gb hdd, 12.1" scr, 5 hrs battery life = <<


1and1.com = $8/year?

How is that $8/year?

1and1 = free webhosting for 3 years

Which expired on January 21, 2004.

Currently the best deal is

$8 Domain Registration + $10 Web/Email hosting = $18/yr which gives you:

Your own domain (whateveryouwant.com)
200MB disk space (to be used for web site, pics and email however you want)
4GB per month bandwidth
E-Mail (POP3/IMAP)
Webmail
Up to 10 e-mail custom e-mail addresses
Up to 10 FTP accounts
Up to 10 MySQL databases
PHP, Perl, CGI
and of course good 'ole www.yourwebsite.com hosting

 

[slycat]

u know..nowadays...i feel the BEST email is the one u host yourself.
these days so much personal/sensitive data like bank records, cc stuff, statements stuff..etc
..so much important data is on email that i feel less inclined to let someone else host it for me.
u know they can read it if they wanted to. i'd feel much better with my email on my own server box.
and on the technical side, i want to control my own downtime.

 

[DeviousTrap]

Originally posted by: slycat
u know..nowadays...i feel the BEST email is the one u host yourself.
these days so much personal/sensitive data like bank records, cc stuff, statements stuff..etc
..so much important data is on email that i feel less inclined to let someone else host it for me.
u know they can read it if they wanted to. i'd feel much better with my email on my own server box.
and on the technical side, i want to control my own downtime.

I can understand where you are coming from, however you cannot host your email at home unless your isp allows you to. And do you really want to pay upwards of $75 a month for a dedicated server? Any decent person would have no need to look through your emails.

 

[slycat]

Originally posted by: DeviousTrap

Originally posted by: slycat
u know..nowadays...i feel the BEST email is the one u host yourself.
these days so much personal/sensitive data like bank records, cc stuff, statements stuff..etc
..so much important data is on email that i feel less inclined to let someone else host it for me.
u know they can read it if they wanted to. i'd feel much better with my email on my own server box.
and on the technical side, i want to control my own downtime.

I can understand where you are coming from, however you cannot host your email at home unless your isp allows you to. And do you really want to pay upwards of $75 a month for a dedicated server? Any decent person would have no need to look through your emails.

huh?...i never had any problems doing this before. bandwidth is minimal, ports are open, ip is almost free depending on your plan...only thing is having a server on 24/7. Get/build a sff pc 100W and it shouldn't cost that much. basically an email appliance, nothing more. but yeah, in a year its still more money than going with a hosting company. maybe i'm paranoid but i don't want anyone stumbling on my mail when they're bored..etc. think about it, its actually as bad as someone going through your physical mail. and how do we feel about that?

 

[DeviousTrap]

I have actually tried it even though its against ISP rules. However what happened to me is the large companies like earthlink (aol) will block your email. Whether being send to a aol address or from one if the webserver is on a dynamnic ip address, like my cable connection.

 

[jkersenbr]

The best deal I know of is Kaleton Internet.

10MB = $4.95/year. SMTP+POP+ webmail too. Fast and reliable.

I'm pretty happy with it

 

[DeviousTrap]

What do you guys have against free? ... I am offering it yet people want to pay

 

[Ausm]

fastmail.fm

Rocks!!

Spam filtering
Virus Checking
SMTP
POP3
IMAP
Web mail

Will suck all your other E-mail in also....

I love it!!

Sysadmin

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: DeviousTrap

Originally posted by: slycat
u know..nowadays...i feel the BEST email is the one u host yourself.
these days so much personal/sensitive data like bank records, cc stuff, statements stuff..etc
..so much important data is on email that i feel less inclined to let someone else host it for me.
u know they can read it if they wanted to. i'd feel much better with my email on my own server box.
and on the technical side, i want to control my own downtime.

I can understand where you are coming from, however you cannot host your email at home unless your isp allows you to. And do you really want to pay upwards of $75 a month for a dedicated server? Any decent person would have no need to look through your emails.

I understand as well and agree that paying for a dedicated server is overkill to protect your e-mail, etc.

supertunger99 - I received your PM and replied, good questions