Hi. I am in over my head and asking for help. Around 20 years ago I had an email and domain name only package with Go Daddy. We have four email addresses for the family. It went from under 20 bucks a year to a couple hundred dollars a year. If it makes a difference, I don’t use the webpage, just the email. Go Daddy used to have their own email platform but now use Outlook online. On our phones we just use the email app.
I understand there are other companies out there that will host my email, but I’m not sure how I would switch to another company without losing all of my archives of saved emails. For each account.
I am in over my head. I don’t know what I’m doing anymore. Is there any other service I can switch to that might be less money than Go Daddy that would allow me to keep my emails?
I have searched Reddit, but can’t seem to get a firm understanding. on our phones we just use the email app. I will appreciate any and all advice about how I can get what I’m looking for. Thank you so much.
Oh man I am sort of forever angry for GoDaddy…
I had GoDaddy as my DNS registrar for over a decade. When I first signed up, they offered free email. I didn’t take up on this offer at first because it added complexity - it didn’t seem to work as I wanted (my homeserver is my smtp server). I wanted it to be a backup server by perhaps running a catchall and queue mail to my home server in case it goes down – seemed like something that could be done.
Fast forward to a few years ago. They decided to go with Microsoft as their mail server. No more catchall. No no no, this will not work. at all anymore. So I just gave it up. Sigh.
I ended up just not running an alternate MX as most servers will retry anyway, though I’ve been desubbed a few times with a few mail lists due to bouncing, alas my server has been fairly stable and the bouncing hasn’t happened way too often.
I would recommend using mailstore home edition, free product to archive all your mails. You’re free to then move it to any email service on the planet.