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02 Oct 06 - 05:02 AM (#1848076) Subject: BS: How do you change your e-mail address From: ard mhacha Changing an e-mail address, has anyone tried to remove the shackles, I was formerly with Freeserve which changed to Yahoo which changed to Orange, I wonder had these companies the same trouble when they decided to change, has anyone got around this problem?. |
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02 Oct 06 - 05:13 AM (#1848081) Subject: RE: BS: How do you change your e-mail address From: GUEST,Jon I take it you mean your email address keeps changing (and doing so even without you changing supplier). You could probably bet on email using something like gmail being "safe". Alternatively, you need your own domain and somewhere to host your mail. |
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02 Oct 06 - 05:22 AM (#1848086) Subject: RE: BS: How do you change your e-mail address From: ard mhacha Jon Nn, the companies have changed ,my e-mail hasn`t, for many reasons I would find it safer to change it. |
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02 Oct 06 - 05:25 AM (#1848087) Subject: RE: BS: How do you change your e-mail address From: JohnInKansas In the US it's fairly common for "Alumni Associations" to offer "portable email" addresses, and a few other kinds of organizations do the same. You give people your address at the Alumni org, and it's automatically forwarded to whatever they have on file as your current "other" address. That way you only have one place to "edit" if your commercial email address changes, and you can impress people with your .edu addy - but they also then have your addy to send all those solicitations for the Alumni fund(s)........ John |
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02 Oct 06 - 05:28 AM (#1848088) Subject: RE: BS: How do you change your e-mail address From: GUEST,Jon OK, I still not quite sure what you are asking ard. If you still have your old email address, you could still get a new one from something like gmail which I think is more likely to remain stable. You could use both email accounts but inform people of your new address. That way you shouldn't miss anything going to your old account. Does that help? |
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02 Oct 06 - 05:30 AM (#1848089) Subject: RE: BS: How do you change your e-mail address From: Dave Earl "formerly with Freeserve which changed to Yahoo which changed to Orange," Freeserve changed to Wanadoo which changed to Orange and my Freeserve address still works so there is no need to change unless you have other reasons for leaving. Would choosing some other ISP and setting up an e-mail account with them do what you want? Dave |
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02 Oct 06 - 05:45 AM (#1848091) Subject: RE: BS: How do you change your e-mail address From: ard mhacha Yes Breton Cap that is the solution, here comes the red tape in tons. |
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02 Oct 06 - 05:52 AM (#1848092) Subject: RE: BS: How do you change your e-mail address From: GUEST,Jon If I am understanding you correctly ard, with following that solution, you could still be back with the same worry if that new supplier got taken over or if for any reason you decided to change suppliers again. |
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02 Oct 06 - 05:53 AM (#1848093) Subject: RE: BS: How do you change your e-mail address From: GUEST,Jon Plus, when you change ISPs, you might not have access to your current email address for long after the change, if at all. |
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02 Oct 06 - 06:34 AM (#1848104) Subject: RE: BS: How do you change your e-mail address From: John MacKenzie I have several e-mail addresses with the same ISP, and only one of them do I give out to sites that require me to give one in order to access their facilities. The others I use for friends and family. When and if I start getting spam on an address, I stop using it, and only occasionally have a looksee for anything important, I don't delete the spam, and eventually the mailbox fills up and refuses to accept any more messages. By this time the odd important message will have long since ceased to arrive. I also have an account with another ISP running at the same time, and my e-mail programme is configured to check both on the same connection. Having an account with someone doesn't mean you have to use it, I am with BT, but I don't use any of their other facilities, especially since they tied up with Yahoo. Giok |
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02 Oct 06 - 06:50 AM (#1848111) Subject: RE: BS: How do you change your e-mail address From: ard mhacha Giok you seem to have it sorted and doing a good job of messing up the messers. |
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02 Oct 06 - 09:06 AM (#1848195) Subject: RE: BS: How do you change your e-mail address From: artbrooks My ISP (Earthlink) says that I'm allowed up to 6 (I think) e-mail address, and I actually have 2 that I use. I also have a "@hotmail.com" account that I never use, but keep to give merchants and such who insist on having one for me. Have you tried asking your ISP to just assign you a second one? Or am I also missing the problem? |
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02 Oct 06 - 09:52 AM (#1848229) Subject: RE: BS: How do you change your e-mail address From: Don(Wyziwyg)T What Giok said, plus the following. My ISP allows three mailboxes with five addies on each. I keep one box for sites that require registration, and use different addies for various types of activity. Second box is for private use, and only friends and family get that. Third box currently unused. I'm saving it for when box one gets to be more trouble than it's worth. Usernames for my private addies are random numbers and letters which don't allow targetting by spammers who post randomly to blocks of names (i.e. multiple Thompsons, Thomases etc). I don't get spam on the private box, and Spamfighter does a good job on the other. Don T. |
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02 Oct 06 - 12:05 PM (#1848362) Subject: RE: BS: How do you change your e-mail address From: Stilly River Sage Earthlink allows 8 addresses, and each of them may have a free web page (up to 10 meg in size) associated with it, so there is a good reason to have those addresses, if you want to use the free web space, even if you don't use the addresses. I have three I use there, with a sprynet domain because I started with sprynet (a poor stepchild owned by Prodigy) and it has gone through many companies to reach Earthlink. I use a free Yahoo account because it stays put no matter who my ISP is. I think that Earthlink would allow me to continue to use my email addresses as web mail only if I left there, but I couldn't download the mail into my computer's resident email programs (Eudora, Mozilla Thunderbird, Pegasus). I also have a Google g-mail account that they will let me download (I don't use it much and I set it up in Outlook because I never used that for anything else and I was looking for a spare email program to test the Gmail with). If you want to have time to notify the folks you currently email to at the accounts you're wishing to change, then I would suggest getting a new free account (like Yahoo or Gmail) and start forwarding from your current email addresses to the new email accounts. This is a web feature of email programs, free or not. Forward it to the new addresses for a while, capture those email addresses and add any others you think you need that didn't write to you for a while, and then discontinue your old account. If you haven't downloaded all of your current mail into your computer you should, so you have it for reference, just in case their web access to that mail does go away when you close the account. Even if you aren't using those email addresses any more you could still go into Eudora or Pegasus or Thunderbird and read any old mail from that account. I hope that helps. Send a PM if you have questions. SRS |
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02 Oct 06 - 01:31 PM (#1848446) Subject: RE: BS: How do you change your e-mail address From: ard mhacha Thanks to everyone your expert advice much appreciated, I will make use of it. |
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02 Oct 06 - 02:05 PM (#1848476) Subject: RE: BS: How do you change your e-mail address From: Richard Bridge £1.50 per month for a premium mail account with btinternet. Don't use them as an ISP, they spy on you, as does gmail only worse. However they do have a spam filter. |
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02 Oct 06 - 02:08 PM (#1848479) Subject: RE: BS: How do you change your e-mail address From: Clinton Hammond "Don't use them as an ISP, they spy on you" What a load of paranoid raving..... |
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02 Oct 06 - 04:37 PM (#1848610) Subject: RE: BS: How do you change your e-mail address From: Richard Bridge In stead of strewing insults, check out the facts about "Cleanfeed". It really is time you tried to join the human race. |
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02 Oct 06 - 04:58 PM (#1848643) Subject: RE: BS: How do you change your e-mail address From: Bill D *---------------------------* (edited out my own smart alec remark) |
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03 Oct 06 - 01:33 PM (#1849381) Subject: RE: BS: How do you change your e-mail address From: Mr Red get your own domain name is my advice. But you have to tell everyone the new address and that is not so easy. Can you remember all the people, you have the sent e-mails maybe. send individually - some spam checkers don't like round robins. take yer time and hang on to the old e-mail address for a time. I have two principle addresses plus a million on cresby.com - though most are redirected to nowhere because the spammers try every likely "name". |
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04 Oct 06 - 04:23 AM (#1849896) Subject: RE: BS: How do you change your e-mail address From: ard mhacha Mr Red I had a look at your cresby site, a pilots licence would be an easier alternitive, thanks anyway. |