The address your-name@ipplepen.net automatically redirects mail sent to that address to your inbox on your computer. It's a completely private automated system. You do nothing, no new email account to set up, nothing.

So why would you want it?

Well, your-name@ipplepen.net may be easier for your friends to remember than yourname678(because someone else already had the name you wanted)@the_name_of_your_email_provider.co.uk

And, everyone wants to know your email address these days, from the electoral role to the website of the last shop you went to. Most are honest but when you start getting deluged with junk mail into your home mailbox what do you do? If you change your home email you have to go around all your friends to get them to update the address they have for you.
So use email forwarding for all those times when you don't really want to give out your email address and keep your home address just for people you trust. For example, use the name bills_shopping@ipplepen.net for online buying. The buying confirmation simply turns up in your email box but when the junk starts arriving just get the forwarding changed to bills_new_shopping@ipplepen.net and all the nasty mail stops.

You may just like the idea of being your-name@ipplepen.net

It's free.