Anyone use a domain name for mail forwarding? Recommend me a solution?

[NeilF]

I have two domains with a particular company in the UK. The domains are registered with them, and I can then say any email to them is forwarded to an appropriate google mail account. eg:-

Any email to @ACCOUNT1.CO.UK goes to ACCOUNT1.GOOGLEMAIL.COM
Any email to @ACCOUNT2.CO.UK goes to ACCOUNT2.GOOGLEMAIL.COM

The company in question has now increased their rates quite a lot for this sort of wild card mail forwarding, so I want to move.

Is anyone able to suggest a company/solution?


Now, if this is a single webhosting plan which allows me to deal with BOTH domains, and gives me a bit of webspace, great! If not just the mail forward is fine!

 

[leigho]

I found www.1and1.co.uk to be good. They were certainly cheaper than Easily although I don't think they're the cheapest. However they are very reliable and I felt I could trust them more than some of the others I hadn't heard of. They do all sorts of packages from basic domain names and forwarding to the full on Exchange hosting etc.

 

[Avalon]

Slightly OT but blanket forwarding like this is usually not a good idea. Firstly you'll be spammed to death, then you'll be spoofed to death as the originator of spam. It may not happen today or tomorrow but it will happen sooner or later. If you don't mind me asking what do you consider expensive it's just without knowing it's difficult to point to a cheaper option.

 

[NeilF]

Slightly OT but blanket forwarding like this is usually not a good idea. Firstly you'll be spammed to death, then you'll be spoofed to death as the originator of spam. It may not happen today or tomorrow but it will happen sooner or later. If you don't mind me asking what do you consider expensive it's just without knowing it's difficult to point to a cheaper option.

Whenever I register for something I always make the email address taylored. eg: [email protected].

Everything is like that for me.

I then forward ALL email (eg: *@mydomain.co.uk) to my googlemail account.

Google mail is VERY good at nuked the bit of spam I get.


I don't want the hassle of having to managed/create a new definition for each email address I use in the domain.


If I could get both domains and email forwarding, for under £20 a year I'd be happy. With a bit of web space as well? Excellent!

 

[NeilF]

I found www.1and1.co.uk to be good. They were certainly cheaper than Easily although I don't think they're the cheapest. However they are very reliable and I felt I could trust them more than some of the others I hadn't heard of. They do all sorts of packages from basic domain names and forwarding to the full on Exchange hosting etc.

I've emailed them already! I've asked them about their basic domain forwarding, and also the basic web hosting.

It may well be a simple web hosting package could allow both domains to be handled!? + Get a bit of webspace!

 

[Avalon]

Whenever I register for something I always make the email address taylored. eg: [email protected]. Everything is like that for me. I then forward ALL email (eg: *@mydomain.co.uk) to my googlemail account.

That's nice but I think you totally missed my point... If I'm a spammer and I come across [email protected] and then send a mail to [email protected] and it doesn't bounce you just became my 'female dog' till you work out how to tick the reject box as now I can pass on your details/bombard your domain with spam to any address I like pushing my fake rolex's or drugs to keep you 'up' all night using random address' @mydomains.co.uk as the return address. You also run the risk of ending up black listed by google's spam filters becasue of the filtering you point out is so good.

But you're right it would take 5 minutes to set up a list of predefined addresses to accept and reject everything else.

 

[NeilF]

That's nice but I think you totally missed my point... If I'm a spammer and I come across [email protected] and then send a mail to [email protected] and it doesn't bounce you just became my 'female dog' till you work out how to tick the reject box as now I can pass on your details/bombard your domain with spam to any address I like pushing my fake rolex's or drugs to keep you 'up' all night using random address' @mydomains.co.uk as the return address. You also run the risk of ending up black listed by google's spam filters becasue of the filtering you point out is so good.

But you're right it would take 5 minutes to set up a list of predefined addresses to accept and reject everything else.

1) This hasn't proved a problem as yet (in years).
2) I'd rather spammers send emails to obviously wrong addresses than find/fish for correct ones.

 

[doggo]

I found www.1and1.co.uk to be good. They were certainly cheaper than Easily although I don't think they're the cheapest. However they are very reliable and I felt I could trust them more than some of the others I hadn't heard of. They do all sorts of packages from basic domain names and forwarding to the full on Exchange hosting etc.

I've been with 1and1 for mail and hosting now for a few years and they have been fine, I would recommend them.

doggo

 

[NeilF]

I've been with 1and1 for mail and hosting now for a few years and they have been fine, I would recommend them.

doggo

Ta, just phoned them up... The guy was very helpful! Will be moving to them shortly!

I tried phoning UK2, and got NO answer! Typical!

UK2 would have changed me about £50 a year for what 1and1 will be charging be a £5 for! UK2=rip off!

Worse still, my general email address is [email protected]. With UK2 you CANNOT specifically forward the address [email protected]! If you want to you have to pay and use a 'catch all' for £20 more a year!!!! CON!!