Will Greenby email accept emails to {any-name}@account.plus.com ?

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I currently use Plusnet as my ISP. My domains are hosted elsewhere.

I redirect email from my domain host such that mail addressed to {any-name}@my-domain-1.co.uk gets redirected to my-domain-1@my-plusnet-account.plus.com, {any-name}@my-domain-2.co.uk gets redirected to my-domain-2@my-plusnet-account.plus.com. For this to work relies on plusnet email accepting mail to {any-name}@my-plusnet-account.plus.com.

I then collect emails from Plusnet via POP from mail.plus.net. Outgoing mail is sent via SMTP to relay.plus.net.

Will this continue to work with Greenby?

Any special setting up or tweaks required?

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@LSAS   Welcome to the Plusnet Community Fora.

One invariably has to ask why and whether it's time to re-assess your strategy. I used to do something similar as I used Namesco for domain registration and Namesco Litemail for email hosting, hence my sending through Plusnet's SMTP servers. I never had any web pages.

Times are changing, Either on transfer, or in 2 years you may be paying Greenby for the privilege (I have no idea if it can be done) and also a fee to others to host your domain. My solution was to move my email to Mythic Beasts. This costs me little more than the Greenby fee. I initially changed the Nameservers on Namesco to my new Mythic account, I have since also transferred the domain registration as renewals are cheaper.

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@LSAS The incoming redirected mail will work. Any mailboxes, aliases & catch-all you have cteated should automatically be transferred when your account is migrated to Greenby.

Outgoing mail using .my_domain addresses MAY be a problem. I'm not sure we've established yet whether the Greenby system will accept outgoing mail other than from an <account>.plus.com address ?

I'd echo @Baldrick1 s recommendation. Even if you are able to send domain email via relay.plus.net now and after migration, you will not get DKIM signing.

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Thanks for welcome 🙂

Yes, Mythic Beasts are Great - competent and great value. I use them for domain hosting and email forwarding. Recommended!

And I have just been looking at their email hosting...

Why did I move my domains there? Well, after Gradwell, back in the day,123-Reg was good. Then it got taken over by that company-from-hell GoDaddy, with the consequences that one would expect. So I moved to TSOHost - which then got taken over by 123-Reg. So I looked for a provider that didn't plan to sell out and you could talk to - yes, they provide an email address and reply to you!

So, yes, I am reviewing my strategy. But I would much rather not have to waste my time doing so. And I'm unhappy that Plusnet (that used to be OK) seems to have caught the lanyard-wearing corporate stupidity that is now all too common. Some of the posts in this forum about the "transfer" are horrendous. Email was part of the deal - and now they are breaking the deal. They are soon going to break the landline part of the deal too (with, I'm sure, no refund).

[#5]

Yes, Mythic Beasts are Great - competent and great value. I use them for domain hosting and email forwarding. Recommended!

@LSAS I have four domains hosted with them on the basic EMail only account, thats one big advantage with them, you can host multiple domains on one account with no addtional charges. You are only subject to the overall storage limit for your selected product.

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@LSAS wrote:

....., I am reviewing my strategy. But I would much rather not have to waste my time doing so. .... Some of the posts in this forum about the "transfer" are horrendous. 

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I guess it's a bit of a lottery, especially considering that you are trying to use the service in a none standard way. Time spent now re-organising your strategy whilst you are still in control, could end up to be time well invested.