Ask Mr. Lee

Email forwarding

Now that you have your domain name (see "Why buy a domain name for details"), here's hohttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifw you use it in your email. Let's say your real address is "123@myisp.com". In your account in MyDomain.com you click on "Manage my domain forwarding" For each alias you want to create, i.e. "1@askmrlee.com" enter the actual email address where the messages will be received.

I hope you get the idea. It's really simple and you should just play around with the feature.

Now that you've set up how to receive mail at your new domain name, here is how you send mail. In your email program, you need to change the displayed email address and/or the reply to address with your new custom email name. Keep the email server settings the same.

If you use a free web based email program like Hotmail or Yahoo! Mail, you can change the reply to address so that your custom name appears. However, your outgoing messages will show your @hotmail or @yahoo.com address.

If you use an ISP then you can just change the displayed email address to your customized address. You still use the same server information, since that is not changing.

Experiement with a few test messages to see how you like the look of your outgoing and incoming mail.

Next time, I'll get started with some frequent flyer mileage info.

posted by askmrlee @ 2:18 PM