Migrating a domain away from Pnet
@greygit1 wrote:
I have a domain registered via Plusnet. The web content is static, low traffic. The domain also gets used for e-mail. All low traffic, but with multiple aliases.
I'd recommend Mythic Beasts - https://www.mythic-beasts.com/hosting - scroll down the page for details re e-mail including "Unlimited POP3/IMAP mailboxes".
So effectively will cater for multiple aliases, though there would be the requirement to actually add each individually, I'd think, rather than here (PN) where anything @ (your domain) gets through.
@greygit1 wrote:
the possibility of silently dropping some specific e-mail addresses
If you sign up at Mythic Beasts and start adding mailboxes, there's an option somewhere to
Add address
specific address @ (your domain)
default
This action will be used for mail to addresses at (your domain) that you have not defined an action for.
Action: Deliver
Discard
... if the latter selected
"Mail will be silently discarded. The sender will not be aware that the message has not been delivered."
I moved various domains there between May and August this year, domain renewal prices are about 50% lower than 123-reg, and the hosting has been trouble-free.
Their website takes some getting used to (took me some while to figure things out), but once you sign up for a hosting account, you can add your domain as a 'third party domain' so as to get everything set up well in advance of actually moving the domain across.
Hope this helps 
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Something for me to consider. Thx.
(Manually adding the aliases isn't a big overhead from my persepective - it is something that has existed on Pnet services for some time.)
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@MisterW wrote:
another advantage of Mythic is that not only can you have multiple mailboxes but you can host multiple domains for no additional cost ( subject to total space usage ).
... yes, I'd forgotten to mention that aspect - hosting additional domains on a single hosting account. Or the https:// hosting at no extra cost. That last (for me) was what finally tipped the balance in moving several domains, the need to have https:// addresses to avoid the endless 'not secure' address-bar labels.
@MisterW wrote:
@Penny you can have a 'default' alias which is the same as the PN catch-all. In fact its better than PN in that you can also have wildcards in alias names, so you have a 'catch many'😀
If you need to create lost of aliases ( I did when moving my domain from PN ) then you can automate it somewhat. The aliases are configured using standard EXIM .forward files ( its explained here https://www.mythic-beasts.com/support/hosting/mail/advanced ) so you can create them on a PC and FTP them to your Mythic account. Tip, create an alias manually, ftp it to a PC , edit it and ftp it back. In my case I had all the aliases in a spreadsheet , a macro created the .forward files and I ftp'd them down. Job done!
Thank you for the clarification however. I looked at the referenced page and it's like total-shutdown (mentally). I seemingly can't "do" techy stuff, or only in some very limited way.
Years back, I couldn't figure out how to do the F9/PN mailbox set-ups (massively simpler by comparison I'd guess) and @jelv kindly wrote an "idiot's guide" with all the individual tiny steps identified, so that I could set things up for the happychild.org.uk domain (at F9 as it then was, I think).
From what you've written above, the Mythic Beasts set-up for e-mail looks very comprehensive but so far outside my comfort zone that I'm probably not going to even try to explore it any further.
If that sounds defeatist, I should maybe explain here that my current challenge is to cause an (online) form to submit itself daily (end-of-day stats) to add an entry to a mysql table.
I made the form some weeks back - and it *works* if I'm here to call up the form and click 'send' at the end of each day - but haven't got beyond that nor even found out how/where to put cron files (yet). MB works (well) for me, for the hosting, but figuring out how to do things, or how to upgrade php scripts for the newest version, somewhat more challenging Brilliant for techy people, though.
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