Email setup / program

Andrew

Never Forgotten
Honorary Member
Location
Huntingdon, UK
At the moment we currently use one email address to run both businesses. It’s a bt address that uses their browser based inbox.

I would quite like to set up a few different email addresses and use a proper program to to organise them etc.

I’ve looked at getting a domain to get the different email addresses, but these come with pitiful size limits - for personal use I forward these to a gmail account and use rules to sort the incoming mail.

There must be a better way than this?
Also, what program is best for managing them? We’ve got windows 10 home in the office but we all have iphones.
 

Bloders

Member
Location
Ruabon
Just had a look and google do an all in one thing called gsuite that looks good, and good reviews. Anyone use it?

Use it at work, and i really dislike it.
Not sure what contect but for us, it feels like taking a simple job and making a meal of it!

Do you have outlook? thats generally not bad
 

Steevo

Member
Location
Gloucestershire
Email hosting (buying cloud space) isn't silly money. The provider I use charged £2 per 2GB per month.

I store all emails on the server using IMAP to ensure that addresses shared between two or more devices are both updated when emails are read, replied to, deleted, sent items etc.

Works very well indeed.
 
We have our domain name with 1&1 - I'm not aware that there is a size limit, but there may be???
We have two addresses 1) me @ our domain.co.uk and 2) her @ our domain.co.uk
I use Mozilla Thunderbird as my mail reader which can filter mail in whichever way you wish.
It would also download your bee tee stuff - you don't have to keep it on webmail you know :)
 

Andrew

Never Forgotten
Honorary Member
Location
Huntingdon, UK
We have our domain name with 1&1 - I'm not aware that there is a size limit, but there may be???
We have two addresses 1) me @ our domain.co.uk and 2) her @ our domain.co.uk
I use Mozilla Thunderbird as my mail reader which can filter mail in whichever way you wish.
It would also download your bee tee stuff - you don't have to keep it on webmail you know :)

Cheers, I went with gmail in the end and used Thunderbird as you suggested. Really useful program. I know it could do the Bt stuff but trying to separate the email traffic a bit and bt account is full of rubbish too so figured it might be better to try the start from scratch option!
 
Cheers, I went with gmail in the end and used Thunderbird as you suggested. Really useful program. I know it could do the Bt stuff but trying to separate the email traffic a bit and bt account is full of rubbish too so figured it might be better to try the start from scratch option!
Long story short - we had a website that featured our onetel email address as a hyperlink (think that's the right name!)
The junk harvesters soon got hold of this address and it got regularly spammed.
What we did was to divert this email through gmail (we set up a separate address) and that removed all the cr4p immediately.
If you did this with your bee tee, then at least you wouldn't miss any important stuff

https://www.howtogeek.com/school/gmail-guide/lesson9/
 

foxbox

Member
Location
West Northants
Don't forget that there is a .farm domain name now (like .co.uk) so you could have [email protected] as an email address if you wanted (assuming there isn't a Bert at Hilltop Farm, sorry Bert if there is). You can still run this through gmail as @J B says and view it across any devices you like. In some ways buying your .farm domain name now makes sense even if you don't intend to have a website yet, certainly helps prevent some of the more obvious mischief some types might get up to.
 

csspest

New Member
Location
Derby
I use Microsoft Outlook on a laptop and receive and send from about 8 different accounts. You can have different inboxes for each account or just one inbox and them filter them using rules
 

Clive

Staff Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lichfield
Get a Microsoft 365 account and use exchange and outlook for email

Be careful what you wish for re multiple email addresses though - I have x10 that are all very active now and life gets confusing !
 

Andrew

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Honorary Member
Location
Huntingdon, UK
But how many Yahoo/BT ones have been hacked? :rolleyes:

Most at one time or another!

Get a Microsoft 365 account and use exchange and outlook for email

Be careful what you wish for re multiple email addresses though - I have x10 that are all very active now and life gets confusing !

Got 5 up and running now, only 1 for actual emails, the other 4 are feeders to allow automatic sorting of invoices, records etc, but they all arrive in one place. Seems to be working ok so far.
 

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