E-Mail Hosting? 22
nmx asks: "Apparently my cable modem provider decided that I can't run my Webserver and mailserver anymore from my cable connection. Webhosting services are easy enough to find; I can just change the DNS to point my domain name to any of several free services. But what about the mailserver? I have several addresses @ my domain (most of which get forwarded to my main account). I don't want to (and can't afford to) lose those addresses; are there any (free or otherwise) services that can help me out?"
MailHost (Score:1)
Free POP/IMAP email accounts (Score:1)
myrealbox.com and mailandnews.com are good POP3/IMAP services (they also offer web-based mail). They even allow you to use SSL connections to retrieve your mail. eudoramail.com also offers POP accounts, but it seems undocumented (just set your pop server to eudoramail.com, use APOP authentication if possible - SSL isn't supported). I think flashmail.com is another one, but I haven't tried it in a while.
DNS registry as a solution (Score:1)
Kind of a kluge, but I think it's about the only way to preserve your existing e-mail addresses.
Re:schmim.com (Score:1)
There's only one way to really be sure your email address will never change. Register your own domain name. I've used Domainmonger, but they aren't the only low cost registrar. If you've registered your domain name you can change hosting companies without changing email addresses and you never have to worry about the owner of the domain taking away your right to use the address of your choice (unless of course you get into the whole trademark/domain squatting thing).
Once you've registered your domain name, you just need to host it with a web hosting company that also provides email. I pay $10/month to www.csoft.net for web hosting which includes unlimited email forwarders and unlimited POP mailboxes, both configurable through a simple CLI (i.e. login to a shell via ssh). There are many other web hosts that offer similar service.
Re:send or receive? (Score:1)
I hacked up a quick script to interrogate my dialup hostname via nslookup on the IP and put that in the above qmail config. Then I added that script to /etc/ppp/ip-up. I also added a line to /etc/ppp/ip-down to put my internal hostname back for when I was offline. A hack for sure, but it worked.
Now, if your provider doesn't have reverse DNS setup for its dynamic IPs, the only other thing I can think of is do what I do now. I own bikegods.org [bikegods.org] (hosted elsewhere), so I just set my qmail defaulthost to that for all time. If a mailer on the other end wants to contact postmaster, etc, it will still get back to me. Do something similar if you own a domain (or know someone who doesn't mind you doing that).
Re:schmim.com (Score:1)
schmim.com (Score:1)
Glenn
Re:schmim.com (Score:1)
POP? (Score:1)
Plus, I hate having to use web-based email to solve this. Has anyone heard of this?
Enoch
clearlight.com (Score:1)
send or receive? (Score:1)
Re:Free POP/IMAP email accounts (Score:1)
True, but there's an easy way around that, which I use myself:
You may now use foo@yahoo.com without receiving any spam on that account; just remember to occasionally login to bar to delete the piles of spam it accumulates ;)
Email Hosting (Score:1)
Re:MailHost (Score:1)
They also tag a little ad for themselves on the bottom of both your incoming and outgoing e-mails. They and at this time, you must have them host your DNS (though they have said that they're planning a paid service for people who want to have their DNS hosted elsewhere).
Personally, I'd look for another provider before you chose bn3.
Re:MailHost (Score:1)
Re:schmim.com (Score:2)
The guy who asked the question should spend a few bucks.
Re:send or receive? (Score:2)
You'd be able to send and receive e-mail but you have to use our client, and you'd be limited to 6MB of space.
-JF
Cheap email hosting (Score:2)
Re:POP? (Score:2)
cxhost.com (Score:2)
Everyone.net (Score:3)
The end result is that you'll get your "me@foo.com" e-mails sent to "me@suckycablemodemprovider.com"...
-JF
even cheap web hosts provide mail hosting (Score:3)
For $10 a month (paid anually), they'll host your website and email.
There's many more out there just like these guys, you can try the builder.com directory of hosts.
BTW, if you sign up with Impulse, tell them that Katz & Mouse [katzandmouse.com] sent you their way