idnet.co.uk email address cost

mrjeffery · Jan 06, 2008, 00:12:47

I paid for an idnet.co.uk email address when i signed up to idnet (£4). Is it a one off payment or monthly?

Adam · Jan 06, 2008, 00:15:45

I believe it is a monthly cost. Out of interest, why did you select an idnet.co.uk address? (You don't have to answer that.

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mrjeffery · Jan 06, 2008, 00:33:04

Thanks. It was just personal preference really, i think a .co.uk email address is more fitting and less widespread. I thought it was just a one off payment though, £35/month for an isp is the most i can afford sensibly (only just mind!) so the extra £4/month on top of that means the address is going to have to go unfortunately. C'est la vie!

Adam · Jan 06, 2008, 00:45:55

The free idnet.com addresses work just as well imho, so I think you'll be happy with them. £35 is a fair amount for broadband, especially taking the service into account.

mrjeffery · Jan 06, 2008, 01:08:31

Quote from: Adam on Jan 06, 2008, 00:45:55
The free idnet.com addresses work just as well imho, so I think you'll be happy with them. £35 is a fair amount for broadband, especially taking the service into account.

Absolutely. You definately get what you pay for

scook94 · Jan 06, 2008, 01:18:05

You could always register a .co.uk domain name of your liking for a few quid a year and use email forwarding. If you hop ISPs every now and again it saves the hassle of having to let everyone know your new email address...

Arthix · Jan 06, 2008, 02:17:22

Quote from: scook94 on Jan 06, 2008, 01:18:05
You could always register a .co.uk domain name of your liking for a few quid a year and use email forwarding. If you hop ISPs every now and again it saves the hassle of having to let everyone know your new email address...

Thats what I did, Arthix.co.uk

, Cost me £6.93 for the domain (for two years) but i'm paying £17.61 a year for an email package. Probably cancel it now that I'm with Idnet though.

Sebby · Jan 06, 2008, 19:06:58

Quote from: scook94 on Jan 06, 2008, 01:18:05
You could always register a .co.uk domain name of your liking for a few quid a year and use email forwarding. If you hop ISPs every now and again it saves the hassle of having to let everyone know your new email address...

Indeed; I think that's the way to go in this day and age, and it's significantly less than £4/month. I registered a domain with 1&1 and it costs about £10/year for the email package. It's worth every penny.

Adam · Jan 06, 2008, 19:27:18

I've been meaning to setup my own domain/email but I never get around to it. Though using independent services such as Gmail has a similar outcome to running your own domain/email.

mogden · Jan 06, 2008, 19:49:37

...apologies for boring rant, but there's too much Scotch in the house and I have a cold...

I think there are real reasons for separating out the components of the internet as much as possible, so it's easy to point the finger when something goes wrong. It's also nice to have your own .com (I paid $50 to Godaddy for mine for 10 years)

I used to point the .com at my ISP but (see previous rants on ISPs) my choices weren't the best, and last May 186K's email servers played up once too often. I bought webhosting from webhosting.uk.com which included email in/out plus all sorts of goodies I had wanted to tinker with. So I moved the domain over.

Two days later my access to my own domain was blocked by 186K

I of course searched for an alternative explanation http://forum.186k.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=189 but it seemed that someone at 186K had actually taken time out from sorting out the myriad of problems to block MY access to THOSE PARTICULAR IP addresses. I could still get to them if I used a proxy and other 186K 'users' could see the website - it was just me.

Strangely enough I left 186K. A task made easier by the fact that my email hosting was a separate entity.

One word of caution though - some ISPs (not IDNet) block access to port 25 (SMTP out) unless it's to their email server. Whilst understandable to a degree, this has two side effects: 1) your email looks more like spam as it's not coming from where it should and 2) it means you're reliant on your host ISP and need to set up an email account. To get around this some hosting companies offer alternative port numbers. It's worth the ask before committing.

Glass empty alert!

colirv · Jan 07, 2008, 08:21:51

Quote from: mogden on Jan 06, 2008, 19:49:37
One word of caution though - some ISPs (not IDNet) block access to port 25 (SMTP out) unless it's to their email server. Whilst understandable to a degree, this has two side effects: 1) your email looks more like spam as it's not coming from where it should and 2) it means you're reliant on your host ISP and need to set up an email account. To get around this some hosting companies offer alternative port numbers. It's worth the ask before committing.

My domain hosts, Purplecloud, simply block any outgoing email they consider spam. I've had so many false positives (I report spam received by forwarding it) I only use them for incoming and send via IDNet. That's worth asking about as well.

Ann · Jan 07, 2008, 12:57:45

I found sending through purplecloud took forever.. email would just hang there for an age. Couldn't be doing with that so I too send through IDNet and receive through purplecloud who I have to say, have been excellent.

Rik · Jan 07, 2008, 12:59:10

1&1's smtp server can be a bit leaden too, Ann.

Sebby · Jan 07, 2008, 13:35:24

Quote from: Rik on Jan 07, 2008, 12:59:10
1&1's smtp server can be a bit leaden too, Ann.

I can honestly say, Rik, that in over a year, I haven't had a single problem, be it with their incoming or outgoing server. I've recommended a few people to them and they haven't had an issue either.

At the end of the day, you can always use your ISP's SMTP server anyway, and if they're good (like IDNet), you can be sure it will work well.

Rik · Jan 07, 2008, 13:46:51

1&1 had horrendous problems last February, Sebby, but they seem to have been OK since then though, compared to the IDNet smtp servers, I do find outgoing mail can take a little longer to send.

Sebby · Jan 07, 2008, 13:49:40

Fair enough. Not had any problems myself.

Rik · Jan 07, 2008, 13:52:08

It made the pages of El Reg - I ended up with two months free service by way of compensation. Their CS wasn't a patch on IDNet's.

Sebby · Jan 07, 2008, 13:53:27

It's strange that I missed that and didn't have any trouble.

Oh well, I'm not complaining.

Ann · Jan 07, 2008, 14:33:29

I assumed that the hold up on sending mail is an authentication thing. I used to have an email address with a private server with authentication and that used to hesitate before completely going. Wonder if it'll still work.. hmm.

Rik · Jan 07, 2008, 14:36:58

You're probably right, Ann, it does seem to be a 'stop and think about it' type of delay.