Congrats Mikel, hope you'll be as happy as me having a good address.

Regarding Namecheap...when I started with them about 3 years ago the e-mail forwarding was pretty good, but occasionally mail would be delayed as much as a couple of hours. They claimed that their domain servers were attacked by viruses etc, but I don't think that's the whole story as my web forwarding ("A" records) were working flawlessly. Since then, forwarding seems to be just fine.

I don't use their POP3 or e-mail service - can't think of anything it offers that Gmail doesn't provide for free.

One other thing -- When using Outlook, I create a separate outlook e-mail account for each of my email accounts. Something like:

John - user name "John Smith" reply to address [email protected]
ebay - user name "ebay" reply to address [email protected]
-repeat- as necessary

The only reason to do this is if the additional accounts aren't there, if someone sends an email to [email protected] and you just select "Reply", it will be sent to him as "John Smith <[email protected]>." This kinda eliminates our anonymity. With the additional accounts you can compose or reply from "ebay <[email protected]>" by selecting ACCOUNTS > ebay before hitting send

I exclude ebay, and all others (except John) from receive/send sync (I'm set up that all mail comes into John anyway) no need to read multiple times from the same source.

Good luck!