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Depending upon the control panel offered where your website it hosted (assuming you do have your domain hosted somewhere and not just registered) and whether the host places any limits on the number of mailboxes, it is usually pretty straightforward.
In cPanel for example, you can quickly create a new one in the "Email Accounts" option in the "Mail" category of cPanel, or to be even quicker you could just use the "Forwarder" option in the "Mail" category of cPanel and have it forward the emails to another email address of yours.
To block specific addresses that you'd no longer want to use due to spam hitting it, it would simply take the "Forwarder" option and forwarding it to ":blackhole:".
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That's called a catchall - be wary of those, as all mail sent to any address (including those that you haven't wanted to be viable addresses) at your domain that isn't already specified as being owned by a specific mailbox will be delivered to your catchall address.
It depends upon the hosting company as to whether they limit the amount of email accounts you create, there are some that do, and others that allow you to create an infinite number and the only limit is on the amount of storage it takes up counting towards your disk space allocation.
That could be achieved by setting up a "catch-all" and forwarding any unrouted email to an email address of your choice, which the "Default Address" option under the "Mail" category in cPanel would allow you to do. Though the warning Splash gives above is a wise one.
I have a domain with unlimited email addresses. I have a couple defined as POP3/IMAP, but I also have a catch all address that collects everything else (mainly spam) sent to the domain. So I can enter an address of forum@domain.com without actually setting it up.
This is very common with proper hosting packages.
If you are only wanting email then this is a pretty good option:
http://www.qiq.co.uk/qiq4uk.php £9.99 a year, saves the hassle of setting it up yourself...
I've got hosting and email with them and that's pretty good value @ £24.99/year.
Same here. It also makes sense when you have multiple domains as I can forward a catchall from domain 1 to domain1@domain2.co.uk which then hits the catchall address for domain 2.Originally Posted by Funkstar
The spam issue is one to be aware of but as long as you have anti spam methods ready, you should be ok.
I'd stress that point, too.
A couple of years ago, I set up a domain for a friend's company. It was entirely a private system with no public-facing access. The domain name was only ever given to a handful of people, the only facilities on it were on a sub-domain with the main domain address leading to a "under construction" page, and at no point were any email addresses ever given, to anybody. One specific address existed, which came to me, as admin. The only mails ever sent to it were system alerts.
The company were going to administer the site themselves, but never got around to it. Then, I get a call saying things were running slow, so in the process of sorting it out, I noticed rather a lot of storage space used for emails.
In that few months, the catch-all address had thoughtfully collected over 120,000 spam emails, for a never-published domain.
So in answer to pompalomp's point, a catch-all could certainly be used to forward mail sent to anyname@myowndomain.com, but your problem, in the absence of effective spam filtering, will be separating out the occasional genuine message from the thousands, or millions, of spam mails. Just stressing the point again, I got over 120,000 emails on a domain nobody at all had ever been given an email address for. So imagine how much worse it will be if that domain name is out there for spiders to pick up on?
I use a catchall with my domain, hosted by 1&1. If I want to send mail from a 'new' address, I make changes in Outlook. 1&1 have Spam filtering at their end. Any unwanted mail I just drag into the Spam folder and further mail from the address goes straight to junk. Mail mistakenly thrown out can be retrieved and the address is no longer filtered. It works well and costs little. It's worth trying for the expense of a few pounds for a .co.uk domain and email forwarding.
It makes a good mail backup too. I use IMAP and the 5 mailboxes in my simple account give 10Gb of storage. Add forwarding to, say, gMail and you have a poor man's Exchange account for push mail.
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I use QiQ as well, they offer exactly what you're looking for.
Alternatively set up yur own server (I use a mini-itx system) with postfix as the mail transfer agent and dovecot as the mailk server. You need to be careful with the configuration (and better if you can then relay through your isp) but you then have complete unlimited control over your e mail addresses, and you can run it as an IMAP server, useful if you want to access mail from several machines but keep it centrally.
Downsides - you need to keep the server running 24x7. There is an admin burden. Dealing with spam can be a problem (spamasasin is quite good) and ideally you need a static IP address (although there are workarounds if you haven't)
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Do they support IMAP? It's far easier to use than POP in my opinion. Everything I do is reflected across every device I use. When I used POP I made a mess and duplicated or deleted messages unintentionally. I'm not very organized.
Yup - that is how my devices are configured
BTW - £9.99 a year for email hosting is a steal - if you were to run your own box then you would pay more than that running it (in terms of electricity).
I have a domain with dataflame, on a cheap package (approx £30/year) and they allow unlimited email addresses. cPanel is the weapon of choice and it's dead easy to setup new addresses, just type in the prefix and click 'Create' or similar. I suspect there is a reasonable actual limit, i.e. if I somehow managed to create half a million email addresses they might complain, but there is a finite amount of storage available anyway so this probably wouldn't happen. Obviously this option is more expensive that QiQ but you get a website too!
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