Current Setup
- email address is forename_surname@mydomain.com where mydomain is registered with 123-reg
- the actual mailbox is provided by my ISP plusnet
- somewhere along the line forename_surname@mydomain.com gets routed to accountname@plus.net
- The mailbox is accessed as IMAP from Windows (Outlook), Android (Samsung) Email 6.1, and Apple iPad mail
Main reasons to move are that plusnet's 1GB total mailbox limit for 3 email addresses is getting unmanageable, performance is poor, and there have been various outages including emails not arriving or not sending over the last 2 days. Final straw.
Ideas and questions
- I have a gmail address which comes with 15GB storage and could set up one for Mrs C. We could use those. Any reasons not to or anything better?
- Can you create folders in gmail? If not, what replaces them?
- I'd need to update the routing from forename_surname@mydomain.com to forenamesurname@gmail.com. Is that at 123-reg? Think it must be.
- Would I be better to tell people to use my gmail address in future or is it better to use the mydomain one? Pros and cons?
- If I just rerouted then I presume all my plusnet emails would still be visible and accessible via Outlook, iPad, Android etc?
- If we then changed ISP and left Plusnet, presumably all those old IMAP emails would disappear. So how do I keep all my old emails? Do I change to POP3 and get them downloaded to Windows Outlook?
Many thanks. I have a feeling that I've asked some of these questions before but could not find them on this board. Maybe it was back on TMF.
Clariman