free email from: Freeserve-Wannadoo-Orange

Am in the UK. A few years ago I got an email account from Freeserve
where I could put any characters before the @ sign that I wanted to.
Like this:
anything@my-identifier.freeserve.co.uk

Freeserve was taken over by Wannadoo and then Orange bought the
business.

Now, my original Orange mail ID is the most unreliable and spammed mail
ID I have had and I don't ever want another one of those!

QUESTION: Now Orange is involved is it still possible to get a
Freeserve-style of mail ID?

Re: free email from: Freeserve-Wannadoo-Orange

On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 01:59:03 GMT, Billger
wrote:

>Am in the UK. A few years ago I got an email account from Freeserve
>where I could put any characters before the @ sign that I wanted to.
>Like this:
> anything@my-identifier.freeserve.co.uk
>
>Freeserve was taken over by Wannadoo and then Orange bought the
>business.
>
>Now, my original Orange mail ID is the most unreliable and spammed mail
>ID I have had and I don't ever want another one of those!
>
>QUESTION: Now Orange is involved is it still possible to get a
>Freeserve-style of mail ID?
All you are talking about is POP email. POP email allows you to change
the name before the @ sign.
Any provider that uses POP, and most do, can do that for you.
Check out force9/plusnet for example.
Remove 'no_spam_' from email address.

Re: free email from: Freeserve-Wannadoo-Orange

In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
Billger wrote:

> Am in the UK. A few years ago I got an email account from Freeserve
> where I could put any characters before the @ sign that I wanted to.
> Like this:
> anything@my-identifier.freeserve.co.uk
>
> Freeserve was taken over by Wannadoo and then Orange bought the
> business.
>
> Now, my original Orange mail ID is the most unreliable and spammed
> mail ID I have had and I don't ever want another one of those!
>
> QUESTION: Now Orange is involved is it still possible to get a
> Freeserve-style of mail ID?

Not sure whether you can sign up for *new* freeserve addresses - but you can
certainly continue to use existing freeserve, fslife, etc. email addresses.
May not do you any good though - mine attract a hell of a lot of spam!
--
Cheers,
Roger
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Re: free email from: Freeserve-Wannadoo-Orange

"Billger" wrote in message
news:Xns98E5142F312E053F89A@127.0.0.1...
> Am in the UK. A few years ago I got an email account from Freeserve
> where I could put any characters before the @ sign that I wanted to.
> Like this:
> anything@my-identifier.freeserve.co.uk
>
> Freeserve was taken over by Wannadoo and then Orange bought the
> business.
>
> Now, my original Orange mail ID is the most unreliable and spammed mail
> ID I have had and I don't ever want another one of those!
>
> QUESTION: Now Orange is involved is it still possible to get a
> Freeserve-style of mail ID?

I never understand why people want to tie themselves to a their ISP or
mobile phone provider like this. It's a great source of inertia - 'I want to
leave my terrible ISP but I can't be bothered to change my email address'.

I put all my clients on Fastmail which is an excellent, practically
spam-free mail host. Their member service costs $14.95 one-off charge, and
offers ownership of a subdomain eg your_subdomain.fastmail.co.uk. This does
exactly what you require - emails can be sent to
anything_you_like@your_subdomain.fastmail.co.uk

Affiliate link (declaration of interest: signing up here gets me a few quid
off my mail hosting):
www.fastmail.co.uk/mail/?STKI=1257883

Benedict.

Re: free email from: Freeserve-Wannadoo-Orange

Billger wrote:

>Am in the UK. A few years ago I got an email account from Freeserve
>where I could put any characters before the @ sign that I wanted to.
>Like this:
> anything@my-identifier.freeserve.co.uk
>
>Freeserve was taken over by Wannadoo and then Orange bought the
>business.
>
>Now, my original Orange mail ID is the most unreliable and spammed mail
>ID I have had and I don't ever want another one of those!
>
>QUESTION: Now Orange is involved is it still possible to get a
>Freeserve-style of mail ID?
Why not register a domain name and solve your, and your family's,
email addressing for ever. If you go to a domain name registrar such
as you can register billger.co.uk for 2.59
pounds per year or billger.net for nine pounds per year. Register your
name but do not specify a name server.

Then go to ZoneEdit and set up your mail
forwards at no cost. So you will forward all mail to bill@billger.net
to your real address which is billgates@microsoft.com. You can also
forward your relative's email so that, for example, your wife's email
addressed to melinda@billger.net is received at melindagates@ibm.com.

The last step is to specify the name servers that ZoneEdit tells you
to use at the domain name registrar (in this example
www.123-reg.co.uk).

Optionally, you can tell ZoneEdit to do (free) web forwarding so that
you can host a small web site known as http://www.billger.net but
actually hosted at the address provided by your ISP for the free web
site that most of them allow.

Please permit me to chide you on a minor issue. The server in the
supposedly fake email address you are using in this post actually
exists. The address is receiving spam from the spammers who harvest
email addresses from Usenet. If that is not your intention you should
choose a top level domain of .invalid. .

Re: free email from: Freeserve-Wannadoo-Orange

I registered a domain name with uk2.net and also have one from ukreg.com
which both have web forwarding. uk2.net which allow you to setup 10 or 15
named email address and ukreg.com I think are 25 to forward to another email
address.

I have gerry@domainname.co.uk forwarding to gerry@uk2.net
I have gerry2@domainname.co.uk forwarding to gerry@yahoo.co.uk
then thewife@domainname.co.uk forwarding to thewife@uk2.net
and all other email addresses are blocked.

@yahoo.co.uk email is free and allows web & pop access
@uk2.net email is free and allows web & pop access
Both also have spam filters.

I only give gerry@domainname.co.uk out to friends and people I know I can
trust.

gerry1@domainname.co.uk I use for forums, newsgroups, etc and if I end up
getting spam from it I ditch it and create gerry2@domainname.co.uk.

--
Gerry (The MOTH)

"David Segall" wrote in message
news:mlabu2129ji1c7bi71pnujqm2g1r0e50n0@4ax.com...
> Billger wrote:
>
>>Am in the UK. A few years ago I got an email account from Freeserve
>>where I could put any characters before the @ sign that I wanted to.
>>Like this:
>> anything@my-identifier.freeserve.co.uk
>>
>>Freeserve was taken over by Wannadoo and then Orange bought the
>>business.
>>
>>Now, my original Orange mail ID is the most unreliable and spammed mail
>>ID I have had and I don't ever want another one of those!
>>
>>QUESTION: Now Orange is involved is it still possible to get a
>>Freeserve-style of mail ID?
> Why not register a domain name and solve your, and your family's,
> email addressing for ever. If you go to a domain name registrar such
> as you can register billger.co.uk for 2.59
> pounds per year or billger.net for nine pounds per year. Register your
> name but do not specify a name server.
>
> Then go to ZoneEdit and set up your mail
> forwards at no cost. So you will forward all mail to bill@billger.net
> to your real address which is billgates@microsoft.com. You can also
> forward your relative's email so that, for example, your wife's email
> addressed to melinda@billger.net is received at melindagates@ibm.com.
>
> The last step is to specify the name servers that ZoneEdit tells you
> to use at the domain name registrar (in this example
> www.123-reg.co.uk).
>
> Optionally, you can tell ZoneEdit to do (free) web forwarding so that
> you can host a small web site known as http://www.billger.net but
> actually hosted at the address provided by your ISP for the free web
> site that most of them allow.
>
> Please permit me to chide you on a minor issue. The server in the
> supposedly fake email address you are using in this post actually
> exists. The address is receiving spam from the spammers who harvest
> email addresses from Usenet. If that is not your intention you should
> choose a top level domain of .invalid. .

Re: free email from: Freeserve-Wannadoo-Orange

"Gerry \(The MOTH\)" wrote:

>I registered a domain name with uk2.net and also have one from ukreg.com
>which both have web forwarding. uk2.net which allow you to setup 10 or 15
>named email address and ukreg.com I think are 25 to forward to another email
>address.
I prefer to separate the roles of domain name registrar, domain name
manager and (if required) web site host. I think it makes changing
providers easier but, as you point out, there are many domain name
registrars that provide domain name management, usually at extra cost.

I chose ZoneEdit as the domain name manager, which it is free for my
and the OP's needs, because it also provides free dynamic DNS. I
needed that because I wanted to host my web site on my personal
computer.