[ale] [OT] email forwarding service recommendations

[Lightner, Jeffrey]

I can't answer about the forwarding service as the ones I'm aware of charge significantly more than $40/year.  However, I as curious what you meant by DNS hosting. 

If you're running your own DNS servers you can point your MX record to any provider that allows you to do so.   That is to say you can control your own DNS even if you're using external mail hosting and/or web hosting and I highly recommend you do or at least do your own DNS registration.   

Here we do a fair number of acquisitions and have run across "hosting" providers that did the original domain registration and take the attitude they rather than the client own the domain.   Since they did the registration ICANN considers them the owners so you end up having to pay them to allow the registration transfer to your ownership OR sue them with the latter meaning you're going to be down for some time.  If you own the registration you can change which DNS servers you point at any time so that you can also change MX and web addresses without such hosting providers blocking you.

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Tim Watts
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2017 10:25 AM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: [ale] [OT] email forwarding service recommendations

Anyone use an email forwarding service?  I'm looking for one in the $40/yr range (or less).  DuoCircle/DynDNS is nearly doubling their price so I'm saying Buhbye.  Plus their performance has been spotty.  This is for light volume personal use not a business thing.  Don't want to switch DNS hosting at this point.


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