Domain names & hosting

[ScottNicol]

Hi Folks,

I want to buy a domain name for email use only, i dont want to create a webiste or anything like that , i just need the domain for email use. Am i right in saying that i dont need to purchase hosting or anything like that, i can just like it upto my existing bt internet server using outlook express and use the email address as i wish ?

dont laugh if this sounds dumb but i am useless with all this

[meeja]

Click on the sponsor link at the top of this forum (Register1) and all your problems will be solved

With any domain registrar you can register your domain, and then point any email being sent to any address at that domain to the email address given to you by your ISP.

Example:

You have the address [e-mail]

You buy the domain www.mydomain.co.uk

You do NOT need to buy hosting

Once your domain is registered, you will be able to log into your domain via the internet, and set up forwarding so that:

Emails sent to [e-mail] are automatically forwarded to [e-mail]

All you then need to do in Outlook Express is to change the "reply to" details to show your new email address.

Edited by meeja on Friday 5th January 11:34

[ScottNicol]

so if i setup this then setup a new account without outlook express, and have the relevent message rules setup the emails can come in through there ?

[JamieBeeston]

ScottNicol said:

so if i setup this then setup a new account without outlook express, and have the relevent message rules setup the emails can come in through there ?

Thanks Meeja

With Register1 you have 2 options

a) Free forwarding.

You can set [e-mail] to go to [e-mail]

eg.

[e-mail] ---> [e-mail]
[e-mail] ---> [e-mail]
[e-mail] ---> [e-mail]
*@yourdomain.com ---> [e-mail] (* being ANYTHING Else)

You can only use free forwarding to ACCEPT mail, you need to SEND mail using your own ISP / Someone else.

For a monthly equvalent of £2.75 you can have a VDS std 3-4-2 which gives you the ability to have 1Gb of Webmail / POP3 email / SMTP email (to send mail!) / IMAP email / Web Space / MySQL / PHP and so on!

With the VDS you can add as many of your friends and family as you like, and they ALL get their own Webmail / email accounts.

Hope this helps.

J