Thank you Glenn for you helpful comments Now retired and active with family history am not sure that I have a need for a domain name I attempted to obtain a gmail address today and met unexpected difficulties I attempted to use an address similar to that currently being used but received an error message that I should only use letters between a-z, numbers between 1-9 and periods. I was not told the address selected was not available just to use letters and numbers as above.
That I have done several times using variations including numbers with g.winters but the error message has remained the same Have scanned a range of common problems on gmail's site but cannot identify this one Any thoughts? Graeme On 31/12/2009, at 2:12 PM, Glenn Nicholas wrote: > > Graeme, > > Separating your email address from your ISP is important for several reasons. > > If your email is owned by your ISP, you have created a major reason to > not move ISPs, even if there are better options available to you. > Broadband options are only going to increase, and it won't help to see > a great new broadband offer if you can't take it up without disrupting > your email. Changing email address takes a while, you need to have the > old and new operating together and give people some time to make the > change, so best to get it organised well before changing ISP. > > If you run a business, it presents a much better image if you use your > business domain for your email - an ISP based email address may create > a bad impression. > > Getting your own domain based email is inexpensive. > > Register a domain with a domain registrar - a fee of between $10-25/yr > will get you a domain from a good registrar (although some charge a > lot more than this). > > Most domain registrars offer fairly cheap email hosting services, > although they may be quite basic and not include spam/virus filtering > features. > > If you are prepared to find out how to create your own MX records > (some domain registrars offer a DNS Hosting service to enable this, > others do it for free), you can use Google Apps Standard Edition. This > is a free service from Google that gives you full strength Gmail (7Gb > mailbox, 20Mb message sizes, POP/IMAP), Calendar and Docs accounts at > your domain e.g m...@mydomain.com > Google Apps: http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/group/index.html > Setting up MX records - US registrars: > http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=140034 > General MX setup: http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=48242 > > Google Apps Standard Edition is a great service. Note Google also > offer a Premium edition that costs $50/yr per account - for that you > get a 25Gb mailbox size rather than 7Gb, and access to a support line. > The Standard edition works fine - Google's sign up process is designed > to entice you to the Premium, so don't get distracted if you just want > Standard. > > Glenn Nicholas > OM4 :: > > > > 2009/12/30 Graeme Winters <g.wint...@iinet.net.au>: >> Hi David >> You raise an interesting point with gmail >> I have been a long standing iinet user and while I do not have a problem >> with them I just feel that separating my ISP from my email may be in my best >> interests in the longer term >> I use their voip system so my calls are bundled with my internet service >> Do others see a benefit in separating the 2 functions? >> Graeme >> On 30/12/2009, at 7:58 PM, David Noel wrote: >> >> Hi Brett -- >> >> -- I've been meaning to put in a message about all the virtues of using >> gmail. I haven't put the necessary thought into this as yet, but here is an >> instance where it could be good for you. >> >> -- When you have set up a gmail account, you can ask it to check your other >> email accounts (obviously you have to tell it your passwords for these) and >> to forward on these messages to your gmail account. If you want, it will >> then delete these messages from the other account. >> >> -- Most of the other advantages of gmail are the extensive free space >> available (currently 7.4 Gb for each user), which with message labelling and >> whole-of-area search means you never have to worry about email backups or >> deletes again. You can send messages to yourself with data files attached, >> as aquick backup of your current working file, scan of your passport, etc, >> these are then permanently available anywhere in the world. HTH. >> >> Cheers -- >> >> David Noel >> 2009 Dec 30 >> >> ============ >> >> On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Brett Carboni <bcarb...@bigpond.net.au> >> wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, I'm thinking of changing from Bigpond to TPG but my >>> "bigpond.net.au" email address is over 10 years old and I don't want to lose >>> contacts. >>> >>> I am trying to get a nominal account which will let me keep this active. >>> >>> Does anyone know of an emailing program which will let you address an >>> email to everyone in your Mail.app database so you can do a bulk mail out >>> saying you have changed your email address? >>> >>> T.I.A. >>> >>> Brett >>> Tsunami >>> >>> >>> >>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> >>> >> >> >> >> >> ________________________________ >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> >> > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
