EMail Info.

[DarkDevil]

I'm never had a host, or delt with anything Mail Server related, i've always been given subdomain space on friends servers and stuff. But i need to know something... how do i go about recieving email at a random email address. Say.... [email protected] what steps would i take to acheive this.

 

[adam_uk]

well you would need a domain on a web server (you could get your freinds to park a domain on there current server if the server supports more than one domain)


you then need to log into the account manager (cpanel, plesk or another alternative) then create a mail account with that domain

you can use the mail server or you can set a foward to go to another email adress



adam

 

[DarkDevil]

ok, i think i see what has to be done...

 

[deadserious]

Re: EMail Info.

Originally posted by DarkDevil
I'm never had a host, or delt with anything Mail Server related, i've always been given subdomain space on friends servers and stuff. But i need to know something... how do i go about recieving email at a random email address. Say.... [email protected] what steps would i take to acheive this.

Actually you wouldn't be able to do that unless you had a whole lot of domains that you could generate a random list from.

But you could do it as in [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] etc .... but you wouldn't be able to create randomemailaddress.ext unless you had randomdomain.com ..... I guess it all depends on exactly what you're wanting to do.

 

[DarkDevil]

Actually i probibly didn't make that clear... by random email address i ment just any email address.... like.. if i wanted to get an email address like [email protected] (that is if www.goldsworthy.com wasn't already registered) how would i go about doing this.

 

[Mp)Tarh]

Are you talking about something like:

You own the site http://www.myplace.com, and then people can email you at:

[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]

ect. without you making all those e-mail accounts?

Well I know and use a service that does this. It is located at http://www.cjb.net. Once you go there, you can register a domain name like http://www.myplace.cjb.net and then any email sent to any email address ending with @myplace.cjb.net is sent to your secret mail account.

If that's what your trying to do, theres the answer.

 

[DarkDevil]

Ignore my use of the word random.

I own www.myplace.com
I want to recieve emails at [email protected]
How do i do this?

I'm pretty sure adam had it right the first time.

 

[web guru]

If you own your own domain you must first get someone to host it for you. Then log into your control panel and set up your email addresses.

Simple as that!!