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For many years I have had a Yahoo Professional email account. The main reason I chose this was that it provides an unlimited number of email address aliases, so I only use my main email with friends and family. I create separate aliases for banking, shopping on-line, and various subscriptions.
They are raising the price on this account and I'm now looking into other options.
If you know of a service that provides a similar feature, will you share?
One thing to consider is get you own domain and use it exclusively for email, you can keep it forever. It only cost about $10 or $15 a year but you would need to make sure they have email forwarding including with that. Most offer it as part of registration. Just so it's clear you don't need a web site hosting package for this and should be no more than about $15 a year.
You would then use that service to forward all email accounts to a gmail account or whatever. At any time in the future you can forward them to any other provider.
One thing to consider is get you own domain and use it exclusively for email, you can keep it forever. It only cost about $10 or $15 a year but you would need to make sure they have email forwarding including with that. Most offer it as part of registration. Just so it's clear you don't need a web site hosting package for this and should be no more than about $15 a year.
You would then use that service to forward all email accounts to a gmail account or whatever. At any time in the future you can forward them to any other provider.
One thing to consider is get you own domain and use it exclusively for email, you can keep it forever. It only cost about $10 or $15 a year but you would need to make sure they have email forwarding including with that. Most offer it as part of registration. Just so it's clear you don't need a web site hosting package for this and should be no more than about $15 a year.
You would then use that service to forward all email accounts to a gmail account or whatever. At any time in the future you can forward them to any other provider.
Do you have any you recommend? For the ones I have looked at with email forwarding, they cost a few bucks a month, which brings the price up close to the same as those secure email sites I listed above (+/- $60/year).
As an example, godaddy's basic option is $4.99/month (after first year discount) and I can't tell if they provide email forwarding.
Also, with email forwarding, how would I reply to emails so that my specific alias email address shows?
One thing to consider is get you own domain and use it exclusively for email, you can keep it forever. It only cost about $10 or $15 a year but you would need to make sure they have email forwarding including with that. Most offer it as part of registration. Just so it's clear you don't need a web site hosting package for this and should be no more than about $15 a year.
You would then use that service to forward all email accounts to a gmail account or whatever. At any time in the future you can forward them to any other provider.
Email isn't as simple as it used to be. Some of the email sites, such as "live" (the old hotmail) check for site certificates. If you have a basic domain and use the basic email that comes with it, your email can get filtered out, as any certificate won't match the name of your domain. There are great reasons to have a domain name, but there can be issues.
As an example, godaddy's basic option is $4.99/month (after first year discount) and I can't tell if they provide email forwarding.
That's a full hosting account if you wanted a website and full email , you don't need website. You only need to register the domain. As I already mentioned this should only cost about $10 to $15 per year. One of the features that are very often offered with registration is email forwarding.
Email isn't as simple as it used to be. Some of the email sites, such as "live" (the old hotmail) check for site certificates. If you have a basic domain and use the basic email that comes with it, your email can get filtered out, as any certificate won't match the name of your domain. There are great reasons to have a domain name, but there can be issues.
Good point Harry, it didn't cross my mind. You are referring to DKIM and I'm not sure if that can be set up through the registrar alone or if they offer those services. SPF is another one, that should be sufficient and can be set up with registrar.
If this is an issue they do offer email only services where those options should be included.
10 email boxes, $29/year. One thing to keep in mind about is the primary benefit of this is the same email address forever. If you find better deal with another registrar or the current registrar decides to no longer off the service you can just transfer the domain to someone that does.
I'm not certain I completely understand what you are after, but I'm pretty sure Gmail offers this.
I have two separate gmail accounts. I had to set these up independently. But I can manage them from one account. So I'm always logged into 'myname1', but I have all emails from 'myname2' in that account as well. Additionally, when I create a new name to go out, I can choose to send it from either email address.
I'm sure you could add more than one even, and manage them all from one account. But again, each is a totally separate Gmail email address. They are not actually 'aliases', which could mean different display-names for one email address.
Google actually lets you incorporate other, non-gmail addresses with this process as well.
This link has a lot of info, and talks about 'aliases' as well, which I've never tried.
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