Best practice for hosted domain email containers

[osmack]

Just transferred my existing domain over to Sonic and unfortunately found out that native domain-email containers (aka [email protected]) cannot be done! I'm very disappointed that this was not explicitly stated whatsoever in the description of "hosting" services page.

Since I now have to create an @sonic.net mailbox to receive emails sent directly to "[email protected], what is a best practice naming-convention to use in order to complete this ridiculous extra step?

I'd presume people do something like this:

[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]

[virtualmike]

I don't know if there is a best practice, but what I did for my mailboxes (= containers) is use the person's name with the domain as a suffix, with no punctuation; e.g.,

[email protected]
[email protected]
etc.

It may be a bit disconcerting at first that the actual mailbox to be accessed is not [email protected]. However, there's an advantage that multiple email addresses can point to a single mailbox. In my case, [email protected], [email protected], and [email protected] all point to a single mailbox -- [email protected].

I use Thunderbird to access my email, and that lets me define multiple email addresses for the mailbox, as does Sonic Web Mail.

It may not be done the way other providers handle it, but once you get used to it, you won't notice much difference.