Peter Shaw
2016-09-02 09:33:50 UTC
If like me you've had your marching orders for your Email, then be careful about what you click.
I followed the recommendation, 1 user, Exchange essentials, assign as many names to that one user as needed.
I waited the 24 hours for them to set it up etc, and now I'm in I find that I have one user already set-up, my primary user and an administrator alias.
I followed the instructions to add my users that I had in the previous demon EMail only to find that what NamesCo have said is a lie.
All of the users I have added can log-in, but they get a bare screen with nothing more than a "Shop at the Microsoft Store" icon.
When I went back into my admin section, ALL the users are unlicensed and have NO access to the mail box, I only have one license and that's attached to my primary EMail (OR at least what NamesCo believe to be my primary email) and the rest are sitting there tagged as "Unlicensed"
If I go into the settings to try and tag them, I get told in big red letters there's an error with my Subscription and to go to "Billing->Subscriptions (Which doesn't exist in the menus) to correct it"
My admin login is set up as an alias to my main one, and I can log into that one and get a mailbox, so in effect I have 2 mail boxes on one account.
However, no where can I find anything in the admin that allows me to set any of my other addresses as aliases to the main account, all I can find are users.
Asking NamesCo support I was told outright, that I should have read the small print and that each EMail I want to add will cost me an extra £4 per year, on top of the £37 I've just shelled out.
I have 10 aliases on my "shawty.demon.co.uk" account, so that's an extra £30 that I was NOT told about up front.
The sign up clearly says "pay for one licence" add as many names to that licence as required.
On top of that, there appears to be NO way to log into these mail boxes via POP3/IMAP etc to download that EMail into my own EMail server (Which is exactly what I was doing with my DEMON email) , I now have less than 24 hours to sort this out before everything becomes permanent and NamesCo start to bounce email because the mail box is not valid, or pay the extra £30 to make it work until I can change providers and get a redirect in place.
I followed the recommendation, 1 user, Exchange essentials, assign as many names to that one user as needed.
I waited the 24 hours for them to set it up etc, and now I'm in I find that I have one user already set-up, my primary user and an administrator alias.
I followed the instructions to add my users that I had in the previous demon EMail only to find that what NamesCo have said is a lie.
All of the users I have added can log-in, but they get a bare screen with nothing more than a "Shop at the Microsoft Store" icon.
When I went back into my admin section, ALL the users are unlicensed and have NO access to the mail box, I only have one license and that's attached to my primary EMail (OR at least what NamesCo believe to be my primary email) and the rest are sitting there tagged as "Unlicensed"
If I go into the settings to try and tag them, I get told in big red letters there's an error with my Subscription and to go to "Billing->Subscriptions (Which doesn't exist in the menus) to correct it"
My admin login is set up as an alias to my main one, and I can log into that one and get a mailbox, so in effect I have 2 mail boxes on one account.
However, no where can I find anything in the admin that allows me to set any of my other addresses as aliases to the main account, all I can find are users.
Asking NamesCo support I was told outright, that I should have read the small print and that each EMail I want to add will cost me an extra £4 per year, on top of the £37 I've just shelled out.
I have 10 aliases on my "shawty.demon.co.uk" account, so that's an extra £30 that I was NOT told about up front.
The sign up clearly says "pay for one licence" add as many names to that licence as required.
On top of that, there appears to be NO way to log into these mail boxes via POP3/IMAP etc to download that EMail into my own EMail server (Which is exactly what I was doing with my DEMON email) , I now have less than 24 hours to sort this out before everything becomes permanent and NamesCo start to bounce email because the mail box is not valid, or pay the extra £30 to make it work until I can change providers and get a redirect in place.