do you know a good email provider ?

flynnboy

Hi

Can anyone suggest a good, reliable, inexpensive email provider ?

All I want is email, nothing else.

Thanks for any suggestions.

flynnboy

Cuddlesworth

gmail is the best at the moment. Huge storage, great spam filter and good ability to search your mails.

Annee

Cuddlesworth wrote: »

gmail is the best at the moment. Huge storage, great spam filter and good ability to search your mails.

+1

I'm a definite Gmail convert; cannot imagine using anything else now.

projectmayhem

Use gmail but recently bought Apple mobileMe which is great if you have an iPhone etc.

bmcgrath

Gmail. Really really good. Works a charm as a IMAP on my Mac and iPhone.

flynnboy

I've heard o2.ie is not bad ?

flynnboy

zod

flynnboy wrote: »

I've heard o2.ie is not bad ?

flynnboy

if u want spam!

if you don't use gmail .. (you can have you own domain for €5)

flynnboy

Well, spam filters are not by any means foolproof and whereas I'd rather not have spam I DO want to view my spam because it frequently happens that legitimate mails enquiring about my business end up in the spam folder. So if I have a spam free mail box I might unwittingly lose business.

So for this reason, strange as it might seem, I do want/need spam :eek:

PaddyTheNth

flynnboy wrote: »

Well, spam filters are not by any means foolproof and whereas I'd rather not have spam I DO want to view my spam because it frequently happens that legitimate mails enquiring about my business end up in the spam folder. So if I have a spam free mail box I might unwittingly lose business.

So for this reason, strange as it might seem, I do want/need spam :eek:

Email as a service is a business for Google. Its not for O2. Which do you think is going to do it better? You can even use a personal email address (domain name) eg flynnboy@flynnshouse.ie for free with Google.

Spam in Gmail gets put in a spam folder (or tagged as spam to be more specific)...you can look at it just fine, and choose how long it stays in your mailbox before it gets deleted. You can't get a better spam filter for free.

Nehaxak

Buy your own personal domain from GoDaddy.com and add their email service, works brilliant, great anti spam features, great webmail interface and so on and cheap as chips, actually probably cheaper given the cost of things these days

Kinetic^

Gmail in the house!!!

Doctor DooM

O2 is awful. Trust me, I used to work with it.

GMail is the way of the future.

cianclarke

Gmail on your own domain is honestly the only way I'd ever dream of doing it.
Tech side of it, if using a client then IMAP/Pop3 but always leave messages on the server, space is there for a reason.

Orion

zod wrote: »

if you don't use gmail .. (you can have you own domain for €5)

PaddyTheNth wrote: »

Email as a service is a business for Google. Its not for O2. Which do you think is going to do it better? You can even use a personal email address (domain name) eg flynnboy@flynnshouse.ie for free with Google.

cianclarke wrote: »

Gmail on your own domain is honestly the only way I'd ever dream of doing it.

Didn't know you could do this. How is it done? Sounds like something I could use for our primary school.

blackgold>>

email forwarding account
goodluck

PaddyTheNth

Macros42 wrote: »

Didn't know you could do this. How is it done? Sounds like something I could use for our primary school.

I'd say it could definitely work.

It's done via Google Apps. There's a free and a paid type, and there's one for educational institutions too, though I don't know how hard it is to get that.
http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/editions.html
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/edu/index.html

You buy the domain name form your favourite registrar, register a Google Apps account, then point the domains MX records with the registrar to Google's mailservers.

Google have some pretty good documentation on how to set it up. Its not too tricky, I did it just to see how hard it was a couple of weeks ago. If you do play around with it and want any further info give me a shout.

More

zod

PaddyTheNth wrote: »

You buy the domain name form your favourite registrar, register a Google Apps account, then point the domains MX records with the registrar to Google's mailservers.

Google have some pretty good documentation on how to set it up. Its not too tricky, I did it just to see how hard it was a couple of weeks ago. If you do play around with it and want any further info give me a shout.

More

You can buy the domain from google and it's all set up for you immediately.. it cost €5 .. redirecting the website for the domain is also easy because they give you DNS change control.

You and all your students will be emailing from the new domain in minutes .. simply select 'I want to buy a domain name' here http://www.google.com/a/cpanel/domain/new

Orion

I'll look into this. We already have a domain so I'll be tranferring the MX records if I go down this road. If it can be integrated into Joomla like the calendar is that'll be sweet.

flynnboy

PaddyTheNth wrote: »

You can even use a personal email address (domain name) eg flynnboy@flynnshouse.ie for free with Google.

I've spent the last day or so looking into gmail and I cannot see any way you can alter the @gmail.com address ? I have taken out a trial account and ascertained you can take out several alternate usernames and use them from the one account but whatever username you decide upon always has to end with @gmail.com as far as I can tell so far? I have tried adding addresses ending @.ie as you suggested but they are always rejected, which seems to make sense to me.

Am I missing something, or being thick ?

flynnboy

Saruman

did you try the settings page by any chance? I know it might seem obvious but thats where it is

zod

flynnboy wrote: »

I've spent the last day or so looking into gmail and I cannot see any way you can alter the @gmail.com address ? I have taken out a trial account and ascertained you can take out several alternate usernames and use them from the one account but whatever username you decide upon always has to end with @gmail.com as far as I can tell so far? I have tried adding addresses ending @.ie as you suggested but they are always rejected, which seems to make sense to me.

Am I missing something, or being thick ?

flynnboy

CLICK HERE : http://www.google.com/a/cpanel/domain/new

then register a new domain .. and follow the instructions

flynnboy

Saruman wrote: »

did you try the settings page by any chance? I know it might seem obvious but thats where it is

Yep.... settings > accounts > add address

Then you can add any username you want, provided you have already claimed it by opening another separate account in that username, but it will always end @gmail.com. As I said this does make sense, doesn't it ? For example if I use flynnboy@donegal.ie how is it going to be routed to gmail.com and find my relevant gmail account

flynnboy

zod wrote: »

CLICK HERE : http://www.google.com/a/cpanel/domain/new

then register a new domain .. and follow the instructions

"You can even use a personal email address (domain name) eg flynnboy@flynnshouse.ie for free with Google."

You can't do that through the regular @gmail.com account as was suggested
But even if you look at buying a domain there is no .ie option. as far as I can see.

zod

flynnboy wrote: »

"You can even use a personal email address (domain name) eg flynnboy@flynnshouse.ie for free with Google."

You can't do that through the regular @gmail.com account as was suggested
But even if you look at buying a domain there is no .ie option. as far as I can see.

They give you email (which is free) .. not the thing after the @ sign ( thats called a domain) and you have to pay for that.

flynnshouse.com or flynnshouse.org etc = €5
flynnshouse.ie = at least €25 and you have to register elsewhere and get the MX records pointed at google

flynnboy

zod wrote: »

They give you email (which is free) .. not the thing after the @ sign ( thats called a domain) and you have to pay for that.

flynnshouse.com or flynnshouse.org etc = €5
flynnshouse.ie = at least €25 and you have to register elsewhere and get the MX records pointed at google

Yes, exactly, this is my point:

"You can even use a personal email address (domain name) eg flynnboy@flynnshouse.ie for free with Google."

This is not the case, that's all I'm saying. I appreciate the advice given, it just turned out to be not the case. However, I do thank the person giving that info' because it did lead my to investigate gmail and it does seem very interesting, but it is only with an @gmail.com address.

Orion

flynnboy wrote: »

Yes, exactly, this is my point:

"You can even use a personal email address (domain name) eg flynnboy@flynnshouse.ie for free with Google."

This is not the case, that's all I'm saying. I appreciate the advice given, it just turned out to be not the case. However, I do thank the person giving that info' because it did lead my to investigate gmail and it does seem very interesting, but it is only with an @gmail.com address.

From the link given above http://www.google.com/a/cpanel/domain/new
"you will be able to create user accounts for john@example.com"


So it is the case. You have to pay for a domain name - even if you use google to register it. If you have a domain name already you just need to transfer the MX record which is free.


hehe - just noticed what's in my Google Search - Go on - I dare you - apply Rule 34 to that image!

zod

flynnboy wrote: »

Yes, exactly, this is my point:

"You can even use a personal email address (domain name) eg flynnboy@flynnshouse.ie for free with Google."

This is not the case, that's all I'm saying. I appreciate the advice given, it just turned out to be not the case. However, I do thank the person giving that info' because it did lead my to investigate gmail and it does seem very interesting, but it is only with an @gmail.com address.

Yes it's not completely free if you don't have a domain already.

If you do own a domain it is completely free to use their servers to send email*

PaddyTheNth

flynnboy wrote: »

"You can even use a personal email address (domain name) eg flynnboy@flynnshouse.ie for free with Google."

You can't do that through the regular @gmail.com account as was suggested
But even if you look at buying a domain there is no .ie option. as far as I can see.

Small misunderstanding here...as has been pointed out by other people, what I'm saying is that they will provide hosted email for your domain for free. Its pretty much impossible to get free hosted email anywhere else. I'm not saying that you get a domain for free. Sorry if that mislead you.

PaddyTheNth wrote:

You buy the domain name form your favourite registrar, register a Google Apps account, then point the domains MX records with the registrar to Google's mailservers

GoDaddy, who are the registrar which Google use for purchases of domains at sign-up time, are not a .ie reseller.

flynnboy

PaddyTheNth wrote: »

Small misunderstanding here...Sorry if that mislead you.

Hey it really isn't a problem and there is no need for apologies. These things are difficult comprehend at the best of times and it is easy to misunderstand. It took me nearly the whole day to sus out exactly how gmail worked and I still don't think I know the half of it:D

I started this thread to find out a decent email provider and I think gmail is it.... so thank you all for the advice and the leads. I am currently with btinternet.com and they are continually screwing up, I am seriously thinking of going with gmail after I've looked into it a littler more, it does look good.

Thanks again

matrim

Another good option with gmail is that it has a pop3 downloader, so if you have another account that supports pop3 you can automatically download all emails from that account into your gmail account.

You can then configure gmail to send from that account, so you're using that other account from the gmail interface.

This is good if you have a second account you don't use much as it means you only have to check your gmail to get those mails.

I think it does checks for mails on the other account about once an hour.