Email Hosting

Email Hosting is a service designed for users that want a personalised, professional-looking email address using an ad-free, secure and spacious platform.

A personalised email address gives you a professional appearance, helping to set your company apart from others using a generic Yahoo or Gmail address and helping to build awareness of your brand.

Email Hosting also allows you to create exactly the addresses you need for different circumstances. For example, you could create ‘enquiries@yourcompanydomain’ to promote to new customers on your website, but have a separate address for existing customers to contact you directly.

You’ll also be able to manage all of your mailboxes from one centralised location, allowing you to create new addresses or reset passwords quickly and easily.

Once you’ve set up your personal or business email address, you’ll be able to send and receive messages anywhere with an internet connection. There’s plenty of room in your inbox and you can also attach and send files to whoever you choose. Staying organised is easy, with folders available for sorting and archiving.

There's no limit to the number of addresses and you can host as many as you like. Every new one is sold separately and you'll get a discount if you buy in bulk.

If you're looking to purchase multiple mailboxes, get in touch with us on 0330 221 1007.

No, you can buy any of our Email Hosting packages on their own.

However, if you want to customise your email account with a unique address, you will need to own a Domain Name.

Don’t worry if you don’t have one - you can buy a domain at the same time as you get an email package.

Definitely. You can check your email with any software that allows you to connect to an IMAP or POP mail server.

Popular compatible programs include:

• Outlook
• Apple Mail
• Gmail
• Mozilla Thunderbird
• Mail (Windows)

With our Microsoft 365 packages, you can use the Outlook application included with your package. To incorporate your custom email address into one of these email clients, please read the following guide: How do I add my mailbox to a third-party email client?

POP3 stands for Post Office Protocol. It’s the name of the method used to download emails from a server to a computer. Sometimes a mailbox is called a ‘popbox’ – they’re essentially the same thing.

While POP3 was the first email protocol and is suitable for single-device use, we highly recommend the more versatile and powerful IMAP for “on the go” access to your emails.

IMAP stands for Internet Message Access Protocol and is a more modern alternative to POP for accessing your emails.

We recommend the use of IMAP, as it allows multiple email clients (like Outlook, Webmail and those on tablets and mobile devices) to access your inbox at the same time. IMAP also leaves messages directly on the server so your phone, webmail and email clients will always be synced.

Check out our article to find out more about the differences between IMAP and POP.

This can be done by accessing your mailbox settings via your 123 Reg Control Panel. Before you can do this though, you will need to have at least one mailbox set up on the domain name you wish to create the forwarder for.

For more details on email forwarders and how to set one up, please read the following article: Email forwarding explained.

You’re given spam filtering to keep your inbox from overloading with junk mail. You can even customise your spam settings and level of protection to ensure you’re only getting the emails you really want to.

Our spam protection won’t just stop pesky junk mail, it will also catch viruses, worms and other malicious online threats before they hit your inbox. That said, even with this extra line of defence, it’s still a good idea to use email security software and a little common sense before opening an attachment.