Never Lose E-mail Again

[realtechtalk]

The biggest problem people have in their on-line experience, including business users is losing their e-mail address because they changed internet providers or their provider went out of business etc.

You can still continue to use your Hotmail, Yahoo or any other e-mail account from your ISP but use it in a smart way!

Step 1: Select a domain name such as your-name.com. Registering a domain name is cheap on average $15US/year and there are no other fees.

Step 2: Find a domain registrar that provides free e-mail forwarding/aliases.

Step 3: Register that domain and create an alias. eg. [email protected] and forward it to your current e-mail eg. [email protected]

Step 4: You should be able to modify the FROM and REPLY To fields to "[email protected]" make sure people always e-mail that address and no matter what provider you are on, that address will always exist for life (as long as you continue to register the domain name).

Now you'll never run the risk of losing e-mail again. Just make sure you never e-mail with a reply-to or from address of your old e-mail address and you will be set for life.

 

[Grrilla]

The heading attracted me, because I just lost four das of email and am still scratching my head as to how this could have happenned. If anyone could shed some light on this or confirm/disprove my theory I would appreciate your input.
Here the breakdown and the steps I took in attempting to remedy the prob:
1) email was associated w/ an active, (resolving), domain registered at GoDaddy
2) DNS for the domain was on dedicated server.
3) Server was accepting email for other email accts.
4) Went through both of my email clients- triple checked settings/filters- sent test emails using both clients failed to arrive at server.
5) Shut down both clients, ran ISP email server->problem email server tests. Still, no email on receiving server. (POP not working)
6)Checked ISP server and dedicated email (problem account) server for settings. Took off all spam controls associated w/ the accounts. Ran tests. Still no results.
7)Physically moved to a new server and changed interface from c-Panel to Direct Admin. Reset server IP at registrar. When domain resolved on new DNS, ran more ISP-> domain email. Still no results.
8) Went to registrar, (GoDaddy) to set up short term email for account.
This is where it gets interesting:
9) GoDaddy system refuses the email set-up request because the email was already in the data base. "Please choose a different address".(<- Say what!? The domain hasn't been hosted their in several months. The hosting account was closed!
10)Set-up short-term hosting account. In process learn that GoDaddy's email had gone down "but the problems were resolved now."
11) Domain resolves but still am not getting email!!
12) Call GoDaddy and learn that there were some MX settings that needed to be fixed and that the email would start working shortly. Finally, after 4 das, account starts receiving email once again.

Conclusion? The only idea that I can come up w/ is that at some point, while fixing their system-wide email problem, the settings on my latent account, (which should have been cleared from their DB!), got tweaked and resulted in my probs. Nothing else makes sense. Any other ideas?

 

[abc123ben]

Wow, good idea, thanks.