Re: What do you do with a domain name after you get one?
- From: "Mike Hollywood" <bogus@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 15:24:58 -0500
If you're on dialup, I recommend you look at fastmail.fm
I've used many dialup email clients over the years, and fastmail.fm
really is the best and the fastest I've found. They have different versions
that
cost money, but the free one is extremely fast by dial up standards.
The limitation, unlike Gmail, is you only get to have 10 megs of
space for free so I tell all of my contacts to only email there with
real communication. All forwards, photos, jokes, mp3's, video
clips, etc., I request be sent to my gmail account. The reason
for that is that i only access my gmail acct when i have
access to a broadband connection and therefore I don't waste
a lot of time downloading junk on dialup.
But you say you have a broadband connection as well, so you
could have them send the junk there and forget about gmail.
You can access www.fastmail.fm from your broadband
connection, too, and you see for yoursell how speedy it is.
I think fastmail.fm has a switch where you can forward
the incoming mail elsewhere, so you could have stuff
sent there to your boardband address. The dialup
email you have now, probably offers that feature, too.
mike
"Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Robert wrote:
Hello, Windows XP folks.
I now have a dial-up line which is where I get my e-mail and also
high-speed cable. Rather than closing the dial-up and giving
everybody the e-mail for the cable and then maybe a year or two from
now if I get a DSL line (not currently available where I live) I'd
have to tell everybody all over again I though I would purchase a
domain name
You can do that, for example at a place like godaddy.com, or any of the
several other choices. It's not expensive, but it's not necessary either
(see below) .
and have one permanent e-mail address independant of the
service provider.
But you don't need to do that to accomplish it. There are lots of free
services, such as gmail, that will give you a permenent E-mail address. As
far as I'm concerned, the reason to buy your own domain is not just to get
a permanent address, but to get one that is your name or something that
reflects you. For example, I might like to be ken@xxxxxxxxx if blake.org
were not already taken).
But how do you go about attaching ysuch a domain
to your internet service? How does that work?
You don't. You simply configure your E-mail client to get and send mail
from that account instead of (or in addition to--most E-mail clients
permit multiple accounts) the one your ISP provides.
I have my E-mail client (Outlook 2007) set up to get mail from three
different accounts: the one my ISP provides, a gmail account, and the
permanent one I mainly use (for the same reason you want a permanent
address).
--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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