Re: need new e-mail addy soon?

On Sat, 25 Jun 2011, Lowell Prange wrote:
> Have you thought of registering your own domain name.  For about $10 a 
> year you can forever control the destiny of your email.

I actually *have* registered my own domain name (two of them, in fact) -- 
for several years now, I've been sitting on a couple URLs that I might 
want if I ever create my own website etc.  I just haven't gotten around to 
actually *doing* anything with those URLs.

But, hmmm, you say I can set up my own e-mail that way?

Side note:  Back in the '90s, I think, my parents and/or brother 
registered chattaway.com, and each member of my family got a page of his 
or her own, e.g. mine is peter.chattaway.com.  I wouldn't necessarily mind 
holding on to that -- and, indeed, I have an e-mail address associated 
with that domain -- but the family members who are in charge of that 
domain can be a little... how to put this... difficult to get ahold of 
when problems arise, as they have occasionally.  So I'm reluctant to make 
that my regular domain, or my regular e-mail address.

> After that, I or many others here could provide hosting.  My hosting 
> options would be all the typical email protocols + a webmail interface 
> through roundcube.

See, already, the jargon is flying over my head.  Roundcube?  What's that? 
I feel lost.  (And I've still got my church's tax forms to finish, sigh. 
I've got no time or energy to learn even *more* new things right now.)

> But like I say, registering your own domain name leaves you ultimate 
> control to point your incoming email to another server if anything 
> changes on the hosting side.  I don't recommend you doing your own 
> hosting because that can be a much greater expense and headache, yet 
> trivial to add your email account to an existing host.

Okay... so "registering" and "hosting" are two different things, then?

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