Need to et a new email address

The SO will need to get a new email address next month.

Can anyone recommend a provider (not necessarily free)?

She doesn't need any fancy facilities - just an address and access to POP and
SMTP servers. (Not web-based, e.g. Gmail.)

Presumably paying for such a service gives better odds that the company will
stick around...
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On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 19:53:06 +0000, Maurice Batey wrote:

> The SO will need to get a new email address next month.
>
> Can anyone recommend a provider (not necessarily free)?
>
> She doesn't need any fancy facilities - just an address and access to
> POP and SMTP servers. (Not web-based, e.g. Gmail.)
>
> Presumably paying for such a service gives better odds that the company
> will stick around...


http://www.gmx.co.uk/ is good.

Top 18 Free Email Services
http://email.about.com/od/freeemailr...free_email.htm

Regards
Gordon





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>"Maurice Batey" wrote in message
>news(E-Mail Removed) .org...

>The SO will need to get a new email address next month.

>Can anyone recommend a provider (not necessarily free)?

>She doesn't need any fancy facilities - just an address and access to POP
>and
>SMTP servers. (Not web-based, e.g. Gmail.)

>Presumably paying for such a service gives better odds that the company
>will
stick around...
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>/\/\aurice
>(Replace "nomail.afraid" by "bcs" to reply by email)

Err Gmail has POP3 access

The following are the Gmail POP3 settings to configure any email client
program:
â–* Gmail POP server address: pop.gmail.com
â–* Gmail POP user name: your full Gmail address (including @gmail.com) Google
Apps users may have to enter username@your_domain.com
â–* Gmail POP password: Your Gmail password
â–* Gmail POP port: 995
â–* Gmail POP TLS/SSL required: yes

On 23/03/11 19:53, Maurice Batey wrote:
> The SO will need to get a new email address next month.
>
> Can anyone recommend a provider (not necessarily free)?
>
> She doesn't need any fancy facilities - just an address and access to POP and
> SMTP servers. (Not web-based, e.g. Gmail.)

You can use POP and SMTP with gmail. You don't have to use the web
interface.

Have you considered buying a domain name too?


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Yes, you should definitely consider having your own domain name for
email. You don't have to actually run a domain to do this, though of
course that option is available if and when you might decide that you
want it.

Rather, having your own domain for email means that you are freed from
using an email providers' addresses and domain, and the consequent
need to change them if you then start having trouble with that
provider.

What you do is buy your own domain and have your email redirected (aka
forwarded) to your current ISP or other email. Then, should you ever
need to change provider, you just alter the redirection, and as if by
magic everything goes to the new provider (but do this BEFORE closing
the old provider, in case you need to retrieve emails confirming the
change).

For sending mail, you set your email to send via your existing
service, but put your own domain address in the reply-to address. Your
recipients' software should then use that address automatically for
sending replies.

Although I now run a website and have my email handled by my
webhosting provider, I used to use both email and website forwarding
to my ISP, and it worked almost without a hitch. The only real
problems were with literally one or two sources of mail, and spam,
that wouldn't accept instructions in emails where the reply-to address
differs from the sending address. It was particularly nice to be able
to change ISPs without having to send change-of-email notifications to
all my relations and friends.

Try checking out the following against lists of top ten email/web
hosting sites:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=uk+...ail+forwarding

On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 20:46:13 +0000, Bernard Peek <(E-Mail Removed)>
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> Have you considered buying a domain name too?
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In article <(E-Mail Removed)> ,
Maurice Batey <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>The SO will need to get a new email address next month.
>
>Can anyone recommend a provider (not necessarily free)?
>
>She doesn't need any fancy facilities - just an address and access to POP and
>SMTP servers. (Not web-based, e.g. Gmail.)
>
>Presumably paying for such a service gives better odds that the company will
>stick around...

Register her own domain, then use the domain provider's POP and SMTP.
And easy to move if your first provider doesn't come up to scratch,
but it's the sort of thing that's bread and butter to most providers.

Nick
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In article <imdpgs$ere$(E-Mail Removed)>,
Nick Leverton <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>In article <(E-Mail Removed)> ,
>Maurice Batey <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>The SO will need to get a new email address next month.
>>
>>Can anyone recommend a provider (not necessarily free)?
>>
>>She doesn't need any fancy facilities - just an address and access to POP and
>>SMTP servers. (Not web-based, e.g. Gmail.)
>>
>>Presumably paying for such a service gives better odds that the company will
>>stick around...
>
>Register her own domain, then use the domain provider's POP and SMTP.
>And easy to move if your first provider doesn't come up to scratch,
>but it's the sort of thing that's bread and butter to most providers.

Err which is what you asked isn't it. Well I registered some others
than this one through Xcalibre and though I no longer use their hosting,
they have always been good. But as I say it's hard to screw this sort
of thing up.

Nick
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"The Internet, a sort of ersatz counterfeit of real life"
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On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 20:46:13 +0000, Bernard Peek wrote:

> You can use POP and SMTP with gmail. You don't have to use the web
> interface.

I know how to access the GMail POP server, but not the SMTP server.

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On 23/03/11 22:12, Maurice Batey wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 20:46:13 +0000, Bernard Peek wrote:
>
>> You can use POP and SMTP with gmail. You don't have to use the web
>> interface.
>
> I know how to access the GMail POP server, but not the SMTP server.
>

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/a...y?answer=13287


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"Maurice Batey" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news(E-Mail Removed). org...
> The SO will need to get a new email address next month.
>
> Can anyone recommend a provider (not necessarily free)?
>
> She doesn't need any fancy facilities - just an address and access to POP
> and
> SMTP servers. (Not web-based, e.g. Gmail.)
>
> Presumably paying for such a service gives better odds that the company
> will
> stick around...
> --
> /\/\aurice
> (Replace "nomail.afraid" by "bcs" to reply by email)
>

Gmx is OK. Its free and not oversuscribed by English people either so you
stand a good chance of getting a reasonable address

www.gmx.com

Paul