I have four email addresses, two for work and two personal, generally use MAC products. My personal email accounts are @me.com and @gmail.com accounts, they are very old and attract a lot of Spam, I’m thinking of getting a nice new shiny address that I’m more careful about how I share. Can any of the IT guru’s suggest a simple service, I’d prefer free but prepared to pay. Thanks
Host your own? Rent some space on aws, build a mail server and host your own domain and mail. It's a bit complicated, but easy enough with some guides. Then you can spin up however many mail addresses you want, with the domain(s) you want. Then you can use what ever you'd like to filter that mail and spam at the incoming level. Not relying on a company to decide what hits your mail box. There is a cost to this of course, but then it's self managed.
@me.com is the old Apple service that migrated to @icloud.com so you could just set up a free one in there, probably just by logging into your @me.com account. Apple offer a “hide my email” service which I use on one time registrations, creates a random email address that forwards to your regular iCloud email, then if it gets spammed you can just delete bogus email
I’m a fellow Mac user. There used to be a premium service to create alias emails on your normal .mac .me account I have a few, one I only use for banking and nothing else. If you look at the Rules in Mac mail preferences it’s possible to set up filters to remove the worst of the spam and automatically delete it. The reason most of the spammers pick up your email is because it’s listed as a context on websites and they scan for these addresses. You can also use a few website tools to generate temporary email addresses.
I use aliases quite a bit as throw away addresses, albeit with a different provider that allows unlimited aliases. Either as individual ones for a specific use, that way you can tell when the original recipient has passed your email to others/sold it on. Or as a general purpose one that you can delete once the level of spam starts to ramp up. Having said that the same provider has pretty decent spam filtering that you can set the level on as well as setting whitelists and blacklists for either individual senders or domains. Having said that the provider is the company that I have a hosting reseller account with. Though I'm sure that there are plenty out there that offer similar on an individual basis. I used to run my own mail server, quite a faff TBH. Sure, getting one up and running is fairly easy but setting things up like effective spam filtering that updates itself was a pain and then the authentication for delivery to other mailboxes under domains that had vigorous policies (hotmail as an example) in place was a running battle. Have a look here for what you'd need to consider... This was at the time when I was running my own physical web servers too, moving across to a reseller account, that provides everything I need, with an established company has solved a lot of problems and it's cheaper too and most importantly it save a lot of time. If anyone wants a couple of 1U blade servers to tinker with, setup their own mail or web server, let me know...
If I was in the UK, I'd snap up those blades, what are they out of curiosity? Bought a house a couple of years back that was a custom build 10 years ago, it has a little server room, ethernet in every room (one room has 6 ports!?) all running from a 24 port switch. One of my projects this year is to refresh a bunch of that stuff. For example, in the walls there is cat5e which is more than enough for us as we also have a gig internet, but from the patch panel to the switch the previous owner used crap cable that can't go above 100mbps... Those all had to be replaced. I'll be grabbing some blades as I'll be hosting pretty much everything my self, file server, mail server, firewall, DMZ, NAS and media centre etc. I'm in the UK at the end of the month but it's a dash run from Folkstone to Glasgow in the car, if you're anywhere along that route or near, ping me
They're only a couple of Dell R200s. Tried to flog them on a variety of channels for £40 each but zero interest. Text from these ads below. Also have a D610 with far higher spec, all bays occupied with a mix of 4x900GB SAS as RAID10 and 2x 400GB SSD SAS as RAID1, 96GB or RAM etc. That's the one that's put aside for any future homespun projects I may get involved with in the future though. I accept that the D200s are somewhat long in the tooth in terms of spec but as hobby servers they're ideal. I'm in Cheltenham, if you're interested in the D200s then you can have them gratis if you can collect. If you don't want them then I'll open them up to any other members who maybe interested. They're just taking up space here.
Thanks @Bumpkin, I'll ping you closer to the time if I'm able to make it out to you and if you still have them. And yea, the R200's are great for small home hosting, and should be fine transcoding 4k video for a media centre
My email is an ancient old tiscali one and they are now owned/hosted by Talk Talk. A couple of years back they wanted a small fee for this, £50 a year, which I didn't mind paying but it did bring to the fore as to what would happen if my email address was 'disconnected'? It'd be a right old pain swapping over to a new one when you start to think how much of your life is now dependant on an email. And I'm not talking about social media stuff but rather mortgages, insurance, council tax, ebay, banking, cloud, doctors, utilities etc etc. The list goes on. I don't suppose providers have any legal obligation to maintain support for email addresses/domains.
BT changed one of their domains for email many years ago which was a right PITA. They did forward email from the old domain to the new one for a few years though. Far more reliable to register your own domain and use that. You can transfer email messages, received and sent, to a new provider and also to a different mailbox/email address if you wish. However, the latter doesn't help with receiving email sent to the old address without control/ownership of the domain name. A lot of domain name registrars do have email forwarding options. Until recently I used theemailshop.co.uk as my email provider with my domains hosted elsewhere, cost £21.46 a year for 5 mailboxes across 10GB. Add in the annual cost of the domain name if you don't already have one. Prior to that I ran my own mail server which I wouldn't recommend unless you enjoy that sort of thing. I'm now using my web hosting provider, as I mentioned previously, as they offer domain email that's very flexible albeit as part of a reseller package that I have to have anyway.
