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Offline MachFly

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Gmail change
« on: September 27, 2010, 01:35:44 AM »
I use gmail, and am trying to find out if it is possible to change the word after @, so instead of "gmail" have something else.


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Offline ImADot

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Re: Gmail change
« Reply #1 on: September 27, 2010, 04:01:09 AM »
Good luck...perhaps the folks at Gmail can help?   :headscratch:
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Offline katanaso

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Re: Gmail change
« Reply #2 on: September 27, 2010, 08:03:26 AM »
If you have your own domain, you can use Gmail to host its email and you won't be using the @gmail.com suffix.

So, if you owned machfly.com, you could host it through Gmail and use Gmail webmail or IMAP.

I don't know if you'll be able to actually use some sort of alias for an actual gmail.com account though.


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Offline eagl

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Re: Gmail change
« Reply #3 on: September 27, 2010, 08:03:27 AM »
I think the folks at dyndns have a mail forwarding service you can buy.  You'd have something like yourname@yourdomain.dyndns.com.

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Re: Gmail change
« Reply #4 on: September 27, 2010, 08:18:51 AM »
I still run my own domain name (going on 8 years now I think).  And I had multiple accounts through that, one for purchasing stuff, one for stuff that probably got spam, and my main one.  Over the years they've all been hit by a fair amount of spam.  So I got an invite for gmail when it came out and used that as my 2nd main one.

Couple years ago I then decided to forward my mail through gmail so I could read all my accounts through my gmail account.  I then set gmail to say that my 1st main account is who sends email.  So rather than exposing my actual gmail to the word of spam, if I send an email it still shows it comes from my domain name main account.

And after some filter creations and gmails spam filter, the 40-60 spam emails I used to get is now 0.
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Offline MachFly

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Re: Gmail change
« Reply #5 on: September 27, 2010, 10:13:35 PM »
Thanks, I'll see what I do.
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