What do you do with extra email accounts?

[fosin]

I'll start a thread here since it seems pretty dead.

What do you guys do with all those email accounts you get with your web hosting accounts?

I've been pushing this on unsuspecting family and friends:
"Tired of having to change your email address when you change ISPs, want to be able to check your mail via a Web browser or Outlook, sick of having use an email address like bill509342@aol.com...."

I usually charge them $10 a year for 3 or 4 accounts. i.e. husband, wife, and a couple of spam addresses (spam addresses to use when signing up for joke lists, etc). It seems to work pretty well lately since other free places are starting to charge.

I have to do the intial setup, but I guess $10 is worth 5 minutes of setup work. They can change their passwords once they get in. I've heard of several other places doing this. Good way to get others to pay for your hosting :D

[caddmannq]

Hmmm...I just assign all the extra ones to me.
Everybody in the company gets one.
I get six.
Since I'm the administrator, that seems fair to me :rolleyes:

[Mntsnow]

I'm actually getting ready to offer XPC email addy with Pop3 and Web interface to members for a small fee billed in 6 month blocks at will offer 10 megs or so of storage and allow upto a 5 meg email message to be sent. Looking at about the 2 buck a month price range.... and of course I dont sell their names to spammers!

[Herb]

Most of them I leave them where they are and don't even look.
One of the unused, I always use for uncertain registration stuff until I see if the spam comes up:D Then I cancel the account or change it for the next one;)

[edwelly]

I think I get 100 email accounts with my web service, but I honestly have NO idea to use them. I only have 1, yes 1 account set up and it is just a forwarding account. Any idea on how I could set this up? Example, I would like to have a "webmaster" account and possible a couple other accounts. Do I need an email server for that or can I use outlook? THANKS AS ALWAYS!

[fosin]

They provide the email server. The 2 web hosting places I use are about the same. I go to the control panel, click manage email accounts, and there's a link in there to create an account.

Now to receive the mail, you can either add another account in outlook on your PC for that account or you can forward those accounts to another email via your hoster's control panel (like your doing now). I keep one separate for joke lists, newsletters, etc. so if I hit reply (to unsubscribe) they won't see my normal email address.

If you want to get your mail directly from you web hoster’s server, just add an account in outlook and set the incoming to the hoster’s server (usually your domain there) and enter your user/pass. Set the outgoing to your *isp* and click the server requires authentication and enter the user/pass for your isp. You can set the outgoing to your hoster like the incoming, but you may get errors when you try to send a message and will have to hit send and receive again.

Outlook will add a little down arrow next to the send button so you can tell it which account to use to send a new message.

[caddmannq]

OK...If I got a hundred accounts, I 'd think about "renting" them out! ;)

[edwelly]

thanks fosin!!!
cadd... are you needing a couple?

[caddmannq]

heeheehee

As I said, I've got six. Ummm...plus a couple free ones. That's eight.

We don't lack for spam, I can tell you :rolleyes: