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SwampG8r

(10,287 posts)
Thu Mar 5, 2015, 11:50 AM Mar 2015

technical question about hillaries email

i have seen here on du postings that gave her email as hrd22@whateverdomainsheused.com
i run several websites and each comes with email addresses at the domain
when i make a name for email at that domain i pick the name usually my first name
let me be Frank
frank@me.com
if i make another email and name it after myself it wants a different name or the addition of a number
frank1@me.com
so.......hrd22?
to me this implies the possibility of 22 other email addresses
how many emaill accounts come with a home server?

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DrDan

(20,411 posts)
1. why would you assume anyone else would start with a "1" and proceed consecutively?
Thu Mar 5, 2015, 12:04 PM
Mar 2015

my daughter uses a "4" because that is the number on her softball jersey.

I use an "8" in my password because . . . . I have no idea, and it has always been an "8".

And if she did have 22 other email addresses, what difference would it make.

 

TerrapinFlyer

(277 posts)
2. If you have to ask how many email accounts come with a server, then you don't know how it works.
Thu Mar 5, 2015, 12:18 PM
Mar 2015

When you own a domain, you can add "as many unique" email names as you want. There is no limit.

You enter them manually. The server does not "add a number to the end" if the name already exists.

"implies the possibility".. no.. you just don't know how email servers work.

DanTex

(20,709 posts)
3. You can have as many email addresses as you want on your own server.
Thu Mar 5, 2015, 12:22 PM
Mar 2015

It's your own server, you control the whole thing. I don't know why she picked "hrd22", probably 22 means something to her.

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