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cldlr76

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#171770 30-Apr-2015 16:47

Hi,

I need a professional looking email address, i.e. not gmail or my ISP account.

What's the easiest\cheapest way to achieve this? Obviously I need to buy a domain name, but after that what do I need to do? Ideally I need 2 or 3 email accounts that can be accessed on iOS devices and also a windows desktop client.

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#1294418 30-Apr-2015 16:48

Google Apps

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#1294420 30-Apr-2015 16:51

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#1294423 30-Apr-2015 16:56

Google Apps or Office 365 are both great. I use both.

Office 365 better if you are an Outlook user on the desktop. Google apps has advantages if you don't mind browser based email and/or are used to gmail.

Both are about US$5/month (plus domain name) per mailbox. You can have multiple email addresses on that mailbox if you need at no additional cost, but if you need to split the addresses out by mailbox, you pay per mailbox.

I think it really comes down to preference of Outlook vs. Gmail interfaces, unless you have any particular features specific to one platform.

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#1294424 30-Apr-2015 16:59

If you use Outlook certainly go for Office 365 as it will sync tasks, contacts, calendars automatically, which doesn't work so well if you use Outlook with Gmail/Google Apps.

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#1294426 30-Apr-2015 17:02

freitasm: If you use Outlook certainly go for Office 365 as it will sync tasks, contacts, calendars automatically, which doesn't work so well if you use Outlook with Gmail/Google Apps.

Google Apps works OK with the Outlook connector, but isn't as fast to sync as Office 365.

You can also use Google Apps via ActiveSync in Outlook 2013, which seems to work fine. ActiveSync was new in 2013, so it won't work in previous versions of Outlook.

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#1294427 30-Apr-2015 17:03

I use Google Apps. I've had my domain name nearly 4 years I think, configured Apps on day one and have hardly logged into Apps since. Set and forget, it's just gmail with custom email address. Works great.

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#1294433 30-Apr-2015 17:08

Google Apps - you can register a domain as you go. FastMail is cheaper, it's what I use, very reliable. You probably don't want multiple accounts, you probably want one account with alias emails that all end up in the same inbox.

My side business does a lot of email migrations.

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#1294436 30-Apr-2015 17:10

That was easy, thanks everyone.

Is one better than the other when it comes to mobile devices? Most of the checking/sending of emails will be done from iPhones, and the only time we would use outlook would be when an lengthy email needed to be sent or documents/spreadsheets need to be attached.

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#1294450 30-Apr-2015 17:26

You can also checkout https://mxroute.com/#plans which is quite cheap (starting from $10/year)

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#1294451 30-Apr-2015 17:27

cldlr76: That was easy, thanks everyone.

Is one better than the other when it comes to mobile devices? Most of the checking/sending of emails will be done from iPhones, and the only time we would use outlook would be when an lengthy email needed to be sent or documents/spreadsheets need to be attached.

I find they are all about the same on Mobile devices. If you were using Androids, the Gmail app gives you some of the features you get on the web client (labels, archive etc) - but both Office 365 and Google Apps can use Exchange activesync so the experience is basically the same.

I prefer to (and do) use Office 365 in a business context with the Outlook app on my phone and Outlook on the Desktop, but Google Apps is my preference and what I use for my personal domain name and email. Been using Google Apps since 2008 and Office 365 for a year or so.

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#1294463 30-Apr-2015 17:53

Google stores all your data (read: reads your emails) and it also mines it for its ads and who-knows-what ...

Eg I googled something with an address on my laptop.

The next thing I opened google maps from my phone and it suggested an address ... gave me a shocl, but now I've accepted my fate.

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#1294474 30-Apr-2015 18:16

joker97: Google stores all your data (read: reads your emails) and it also mines it for its ads and who-knows-what ...

Eg I googled something with an address on my laptop.

The next thing I opened google maps from my phone and it suggested an address ... gave me a shocl, but now I've accepted my fate.

I find that a really useful feature.

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#1294477 30-Apr-2015 18:17

I use Zoho for my domains email. It's free and I think you get 5 accounts but I only use 1.

It has an app which is really nice on iOS. I've not set it up on a desktop client, the web client is nice enough to not have to.

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#1294522 30-Apr-2015 19:55

+1 for Zoho. Full push email, contacts and calendar sync on iOS works great. Can't quite understand how they can offer this level of functionality for free when similar alternatives are ~$5/account/month.

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#1295922 2-May-2015 21:35

Does anyone know to create a CName on Domainz.net.nz I can't see where to do it. Under Domain Management I only get...

1. " Web and email services" which is currently set Placeholder page/Domain Name Parking as I don't have a webpage.
2. "Update Technical Details" which says There are no domain names with configured name servers.

Am I missing something?