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Title: How do you do it?
Post by: Del Boy on 08 May 2010, 18:26:53

Get an e-mail address which is for example Del@companyname.co.uk, do you have to have your own website?

Title: Re: How do you do it?
Post by: KW on 08 May 2010, 18:47:35

First off you need to register the domain you want (assuming it isn't already taken).
Once you have that, you need a mail server (any decent hosting company will give you that with a web hosting package).

Title: Re: How do you do it?
Post by: Lazydocker on 08 May 2010, 19:41:01

AAs KW says... Buy the domain name. You can use Google Apps for a mail server though, which is what I do :y

Title: Re: How do you do it?
Post by: Del Boy on 08 May 2010, 19:49:05

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AAs KW says... Buy the domain name. You can use Google Apps for a mail server though, which is what I do :y

Erm, how do I do that  ;D

Title: Re: How do you do it?
Post by: Del Boy on 08 May 2010, 19:49:56

And is it free?

Title: Re: How do you do it?
Post by: bluehawk on 08 May 2010, 19:50:40

depends on what you want you will need a domain name as you say you can buy that then it depends on wht you want, i Use 1and1 hosting for mine

Title: Re: How do you do it?
Post by: Lazydocker on 08 May 2010, 19:53:17

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AAs KW says... Buy the domain name. You can use Google Apps for a mail server though, which is what I do :y

Erm, how do I do that  ;D

Get my Brother in Law to do it ::) ::)

IIRCC it's pretty easy actually. You can also get google to collect your other mail via POP and use the google spam filter ;)

And yes, it's free (or it was) :y

Oh... And I used Register1 for the domain name

Title: Re: How do you do it?
Post by: Del Boy on 08 May 2010, 20:10:07

Thanks, will look into it  :y

Title: Re: How do you do it?
Post by: KW on 09 May 2010, 20:08:19

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AAs KW says... Buy the domain name. You can use Google Apps for a mail server though, which is what I do :y

Google Apps provides a proper SMTP server?

Title: Re: How do you do it?
Post by: BigAl on 09 May 2010, 23:41:56

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AAs KW says... Buy the domain name. You can use Google Apps for a mail server though, which is what I do :y

Google Apps provides a proper SMTP server?

yeah, just moved my domain across yesterday(family use only) works nicely

Title: Re: How do you do it?
Post by: TheBoy on 10 May 2010, 08:53:08

.co.uk domain registration tends to be about £3 (+VAT) per year, bought in 2yr blocks.

That just gives you the domain name, not any means to use it.

If you want a website on it, you need to organise a webhosting package (suitable ones do tend to have a cost, usually starting around £3 per month, which often includes email, and free domain registration).

If you want just email, you need to organise an email account. As said, Google provide a free one which works well enough, as long as you have no issues with Google rumaging through your emails ;)

Title: Re: How do you do it?
Post by: Lazydocker on 11 May 2010, 07:50:58

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.co.uk domain registration tends to be about £3 (+VAT) per year, bought in 2yr blocks.

That just gives you the domain name, not any means to use it.

If you want a website on it, you need to organise a webhosting package (suitable ones do tend to have a cost, usually starting around £3 per month, which often includes email, and free domain registration).

If you want just email, you need to organise an email account. As said, Google provide a free one which works well enough, as long as you have no issues with Google rumaging through your emails ;)

They do a good job of filtering spam though... They can keep all the penis enlargement and viagra emails which are invariably sent ;) :y