Domain names for dummies

[Fer]

OK, so I am finally had enough of having a hotmail address and want to get myself a domain, and have my email forwarded to my ISP.

I have found the domain name I want, and someone posted a hosting site here last week (which started this train of thoughts) but can anyone out there point me to a site that will explain what I need to do.

My simple idea would be to get a hosting site to put up a simple web site (more of a place holder) and then forward the email to my ISP (force9). I would then access it using outlook as I have been for the past 2 years via hotmail.

Is it this simple, or am I just opening a can of worms.

TIA,
Chris

[paolow]

i use lcn.biz for my domain (paolow.co.uk) and they have a mail and web forwarding service built in with a user friendly web interface for just a tenner every 2 years. no probs with them so far. also my sister and dad have the same service and neither have ever reported probs (birthday pressies have never been so easy )

[simpo two]

e-mail forwarding will disguise your hotmail address, ie people can send mail to your domain one and it will be forwarded. If however you want to leave hotmail altogether you need to set up Outlook Express (or whatever you use) with POP3 settings.
At which point simpo checks out and hands over to the experts!

[Fer]

Thanks for the info. I was wondering how email forwarding shows up when you reply. I think that the POP3 connection into my outlook will replace the HTTP config I have for hotmail, but wondered how outgoing emails would get formatted.

I was looking at registering the site with www.register1.net and forward email onto www.force9.net, the isp.

Thanks again,
C

[pmanson]

Try www.xsession.com

[JamieBeeston]

Fer,

With register1 we offer unlimited Forwarding addresses for your domain.

So you can have:

[e-mail] ---> [e-mail]
[e-mail] ---> [e-mail]
[e-mail] ---> [e-mail]

then a catchall which will redirect (if you enable it) all OTHER mail to another address.

ie a mail to [e-mail] ----> [e-mail]

Outgoing mail would simply go out via your existing ISP SMTP Mailserver, as normal.. the only difference being that you could change your FROM address to [e-mail].

If you wanted your OWN mailserver AND POP3, simply choose a VDS account.

Feel free to mail me via my profile for info.

thanks

[agent006]

JamieBeeston said:

If you wanted your OWN mailserver AND POP3, simply choose a VDS account.

This is well worth it. Not farting around waiting for double the delay while the email gets forwarded.