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Need a small web site, four or five pages of text and still images. I think we can handle the web page creation.
I could do with some advice as to where might be a good place to get the address, little bit of hosting and four or five email addresses.
Cheers.
Domain name - 123-reg.
Hosting - Wordpress.
Email - domain redirect to Gmail / other webmail of choice?
If possible, we wanted to get Onzadog@thecompanywebname.com as the email address.
Nothing to stop you doing that, if you like.
My domain name just redirects all names to Gmail, except for addresses I've blacklisted. So you can send to almostanything@mydomain.com and it'll get here.
Google apps used to let you do that for free but now you have to pay I'm afraid
I know that if you use goddady Europe for your domain then you get one email address free. If you use them for hosting as well I think you get more
Good providers are also available.
It does seem like a tricky world to navigate.
If I got it all at 123-reg, do I need the domain, email and hosting or does the email come with the hosting?
Got the domains. Seems each will divert email to another address and will give us a single web page each.
At the moment, it diverts to a gmail account. Can I make gmail reply as if it's from the same address the original mail went to? (ie, not show the gmail diversion).
I don't think you can unless you paid for the Google Apps for you domain. You can sort of half do it where appears to send from your domain but in Outlook it will show as 'from onzadog@gmail.com on behalf of onzadog@yourdomain.com' which isn't really what you want.
Your options are either to use the email at your hosting company or payfor Google Apps for your domain which is around 50$/user/year - possibly a bit steep just for email
Cheers. At that price, it suddenly doesn't seem that important!
check with your hosting company though. Often you get some free accounts with hosting that will work perfectly for what you want
Can I make gmail reply as if it's from the same address the original mail went to? (ie, not show the gmail diversion).
Yes you can. For free. It just takes a bit of setting up.
Go to your [b]Gmail Settings[/b] tab, [b]Accounts and Import[/b], [b]Send Mail As[/b].
Click [b]Add New Account[/b] and enter the details.
You'll want to select 'send through [i]your domain[/i] SMTP servers' this is the bit that drops the 'on behalf of...'. So you'll need the details from your domain provider.
You have settings that auto populate the reply with the address the email came into or with your primary email address. Also read about treating the additional email addresses as an alias ([url= http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1710338&rd=1 ]link[/url]) as you choose this when adding a new address.
Thanks Phil, I'll have a go at that later today.
ah yes, as phil says that will work. I had forgotten that as the folks I use for my main domain don't allow that - muppets
Not sure if 123reg will tell me what I need to know but it can't hurt to try.
You should be able to find the SMTP details by loging into your hosting control panel and go to where you added the email accounts.
By each setup account there is probably a 'configure email client' link. This should then show the info you need.
Hi Phil, I found the info easily enough but it's not working. I think the problem is that we don't "own" any domain associated email addresses. We're just using 123-reg to divert it to a gmail account.
We were just trying to get the divert to work out going as well as incoming.
I think it's just a case of adding the account in Gmail. Looking at mine, there's a "send mail as" setting under "Accounts and import."
I think. I should try it, really.
... and I did, and it is.
You get the "sent on behalf of" thing though, because you're using 'foreign' mail servers; ie, you're sending yourdomain.com email through a gmail.com email server.
To get round this, you'd need to use 123-reg's SMTP server; and to do that, you need to buy a mailbox.
I think. (-:
That's what I thought. It was working well until it asked for a username and password for the smpt server. Because I've not bought a mail box, I don't have a username and password and therefore, no access to smtp it seems.
Who's hosting the site? You'd normally get (unlimited) mail boxes with this. If you handle the email through your hosting rather than a 123reg forwarder then you can get the SMTP details.
Personally I've always bought domains through 123reg then instantly gone elsewhere as there hosting / email services really aren't competitive.
Thanks for the heads up. So far, we're just using their redirect and it comes with one page only which has to be made with their software.