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I have various email addresses from google and hotmail, but I'd like to get a personal email address with my name. How can I do this? For instance, I'd like the email address FirstnameLastname.com as in "JohnSmith.com." Do I have to find a host for my own personal website? What is the most reliable service to do this?
Sometime after I got mail plus for my Yahoo account, they offered to let me use my name, such as john.smith@yahoo.com. If your name hasn't been used, yet, you may still be able to get such an address, first time around. If not, then you could try smith_j@yahoo.com and then be offered the john.smith address if someone else by that name has decided not to use it, or he may still have the regular account.
If you have an old junk computer lying around that you're willing to keep on 24/7 and your ISP doesn't block port 21 outbound, just install hmailserver onto that computer, register a domain for it and you're good to go.
If you have an old junk computer lying around that you're willing to keep on 24/7 and your ISP doesn't block port 21 outbound, just install hmailserver onto that computer, register a domain for it and you're good to go.
Oh god, I didn't even know this happened. Hope mine wasn't affected.
Nothing you have of importance in the cloud should be your sole copy, it's been proven time and time again.
I have a e-mail file with hyperlinks to important things, like bills that I might have to pay when away from home and the snuggly comfort of my bookmarks.. But I email copies of it to myself at gmail, yahoo and hotmail, so I can always access one of them. If two of them lose it, I still have one.
Every time I go away on a trip, I make sure it's updated.
I have various email addresses from google and hotmail, but I'd like to get a personal email address with my name. How can I do this? For instance, I'd like the email address FirstnameLastname.com as in "JohnSmith.com." Do I have to find a host for my own personal website? What is the most reliable service to do this?
I use pobox.com for email account with my FirstLastName.com. Not sure you could get that in a JohnSmith - common type name - these days but I got my name both straight and dotted about ten years ago.
I use it for banking, credit cards and other officious type stuff and download it in Thunderbird. I have a dozen or so other emails for junk, spamming, porn and other stuff and stays online. Though Thunderbird will download gmail so you can preserve that.
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Up to 3 addresses (at Pobox domains or your personal domain) are included with Pobox Basic accounts. Up to 6 addresses are included with Pobox Plus and Mailstore accounts. Additional addresses (up to a total of 9 at Pobox domains, or up to 100 at your personal domain) can be added to a single account, at an annual price of $6/3 aliases.
Pobox does NOT require personal domain name but can handle it.
I am very wary when it comes to using Google, especially when it comes to email.
Google is an ad company that is built around feeding you ads based on the information they harvest from you.
You just need to find a host (less that $50 a year) and you can get your domain and email via them. Its pretty easy.
Mine was back on Friday. That was a long and frustrating 5 days without it.
In their defense, it's the first time in ~10 years of using Gmail that mine has been out for more than a few minutes.
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