Email address availability

[dan49327]

I want offer email addresses in my area to people who might want to have an email address like: [email protected]_hometown.com Can anyone recommend a way to allow prospective customers to check the availability of their choice of addresses similar to the way that google does when you want a gmail address? I have looked into using someone like rackspace or google but their minimum billing causes you to loose money until you reach over 75 customers.

[Weaver]

I would suspect it will require developing custom PHP code which is of course not easy nor cheap. Sometimes you get what you pay for.

[wilderbee]

Will be looking to do the same this winter, will then search for more solutions.  For now I see this: ‘cPanel E-Mail Manager’ https://wordpress.org/plugins/cpanel-e-mail-manager/ …  ‘manage e-mail accounts and mailing lists hosted on cPanel from the WordPress interface…. create and manage e-mail accounts not linked to current WordPress users’.   Obviously — test.  Possibly not automated in the way you wish. But might be workable for initial growth?  I am with an inexpensive basic shared host that allows unlimited cPanel email accounts (although expect would eventually run into slowdowns).  Thinking that once proven, should the need arise, I can migrate to the more expensive in-house dedicated server.  All else being equal, staying in-house would minimize disruptions. 

Please share back if you find an email creation solution that would fit a small unincorporated community.

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