Hi all

 

Got a "quick" ISP question for any computer people. I have my own domain name which my current ISP forwards mail destined for this address to my ISP's mail account.

 

I'm changing to ADSL which is very uncompetitive with my current ISP so I was considering Demon. However, they want a packet to add mail forwarding to my new account!

 

What I was thinking of doing was using Demon for my ADSL link to the Internet and a third party e-mail solutions company to receive emails sent to my domain. I could then POP3 into the third party's servers or have them "mail forward" the items to my Demon account. Another advantage being that many also implement spam filtering (as my penis is already large enough, my girl friend has an ample sufficiency of breastige and I don't share Brian Tindle's interest in goats).

 

Does anyone know of any reputable companies that do this. I have looked into mailshell.com as an interesting contender.

 

Cheers

 

Mike

Mike,

 

I believe uk2.net offers free mail forwarding with domain registration. If you were to transfer your domain from demon to them they could forward incoming mail to your ISP's mail account. Its been a while since I used them for this but last time I checked it was true.

Yes, UK2 will forward anyname@yourdomain to one given mail address. If you pay a little more, you can have 50 or 100 inbound names forwarded to any other e-mail addresses.

 

I have a lot of stuff with UK2 over the years and if you know what you're doing it's not bad. But I soon ran into my limits of interpreting what their sometimes garbled instructions mean. The support is only automated so if you're not a tech-y I would think carefully first.

 

Cheers Gio

Cheers guys

 

I spent the weekend looking into this and I found a company called ZoneEdit who do free DNS hosting and I think I'll be using them. I enter their domain name servers' addresses in Verisign's records, then I can edit my own DNS entries in ZoneEdit's servers. So I can enter an MX record to point to my own mail server at home (Demon - static IP) and "www" to any hosting site I may want in the future.

 

In addition, for about £10 per year, they offer a back up mail service. If my server is off for some reason, mail gets delivered to their server which then forwards it to mine when it comes back on-line.

 

I had thought about just pointing Verisign to my static address and running a DNS server. However, this would make my address very ropey if my server ever goes down.

 

However, does anyone know how to change the Verisign information? I'm registered as the administrative contact of the domain. But my old ISP is registered as the Technical Contact and I don't seem to be able to change this. And only the technical contact can change the DNS entries.

 

Sorry if this bored anyone stupid but I thought some of you may be interested!

 

Cheers

 

Mike

Mike,

 

What domain name are you talking about? I assumed it was pipedev.co.uk, but that is a UK domain registered through www.nic.uk by Demon. It is registered for Pipeline Developments Ltd. You can find their document on how to move the domain from one ISP to another at http://www.nic.uk/howto/change-isp.html .

 

Something that has worked really well for me at home, is that my wifes computer which is on a BT ADSL connection with dynamic ip addressing is using a dynamic dns service called dyndns.org. Everytime her computer gets a new IP it sends a message to dyndns.org updating the ip address for ranah.dyndns.org. So that provides a name that always points to her computer. I have the domain name the-wards.org and I modified its entries to point pics.the-wards.org to ranah.dyndns.org instead of an IP address and set the time to love value very low. This way she can run a website where she puts here photography that looks like a static ip on a dynamic service.

Cheers Bruce

 

Yeah, I can see the value of the dynamic IP scheme. ZoneEdit support this too (at an additional cost though). pipedev.co.uk is my employer's domain. My domain is lorntime.com.

 

Cheers