using yahoo mail w/ 3rd party email service

[diduknowthat]

So my dad has a website for his company and his own email address. However his email only has about 200 megs of storage, and it's filling up very fast. He wants to use his current email address and use gmail or yahoo as a host. Is this possible, and if so how?

Cost is not an issue

 

[munkyeetr]

If I'm reading this right, he wants people to send email to [email protected], but he wants to store that email on a server with more storage (GMail, Yahoo, etc)?

I would do something along the lines of the following:
Use an email client like Thunderbird or Outlook
1) Create an account to POP3 download mail from [email protected]
2) Set a message filter to forward all message with To: [email protected] in the recipient header to [email protected] *(make sure to check the option to store messages on the server until you know it works okay [see below])
3) Have a second account in your client that POP3 downloads all messages from [email protected] *(make sure to check the option to store messages on the server)

* Once I knew it was working adequately I would remove the option on the [email protected] account that stores the message on the server, thus keeping that account from piling up emails in storage. They all get stored on the larger server.

That's my first thought anyway, if anyone would like to add to this or has a better idea...

 

[diduknowthat]

Yeah that's what I told him to do, set up a gmail account and have all the "[email protected]" emails retrieved by gmail.

I can't believe the hosting company only offers 1 gig of email storage max.