[internetworkers] email service suggestions?

Lee Haslup biglee at haslups.com
Wed Feb 25 17:05:01 EST 2004


Rowland Smith wrote:

> I'm looking for a permanent email service - something inexpensive that 
> I can use regardless of my ISP.  Any suggestions?

Rowland,

    The easiest, cheapest and most straightforward way to do it is to 
register your own domain name.  You could, for instance, register 
"rowlandsmith.com" (currently available, I checked) for about $8.00 a 
year. That would give you control of any email address that ends with 
"@rowlandsmith.com".  Almost all of the companies that register domains 
will offer email forwarding for the domain.  Email forwarding is easy to 
use.  You just log in to the management website for your domain and put 
your ISP-based email address in a table.  If you change ISPs, just go to 
the management site again and put in the new address.  One well-regarded 
company for registering domain names is GoDaddy.com.  The offer a 
$10.00/year add-on that gives you spam filtering at their end and web 
mail (which is useful if you ever travel w/o your computer.)  The extra 
$10 is probably a good investment since "permanent" email addresses tend 
to accumulate spam (because they present a sitting target, not because 
being permanent makes them more susceptible.)

None of this is hard to do.  Any number of people on the list will be 
glad to help (myself included) but it is easy enough to do that anyone 
who knows the word "ISP" can do it him/herself.

BigLee





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