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Switching Internet Provider without losing e-mail address?

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I want to dump by internet provider but I the whole family has e-mail addresses, mine for about 10 years through this provider!! Is there anyway to change a provider without losing your e-mail address?

I know the suggestion, send out e-mail to everyone in your address book....but I have probably a million websites registered to these addresses also and I don't really know what to so.

Any suggestions?

Thanks
 
The only way to retain your email address with your current ISP is to maintain an account there. You can't transfer an email address to a different provider.

You MAY be able to set the old account up to automatically FORWARD messages received there on to your new address, so as long as both accounts are active you can get all mails sent to either address via your new account. This can give you some extra time to get your email address updated with all your correspondents and websites before you cancel the old account. Perhaps your current ISP has some lower level of service you could downgrade to and save some money before you cancel it altogether.

You're going to have to go through the difficulty of changing email addresses this time, but you can take steps to be sure it is the last time you'll have to do this. I would suggest getting an email account that is independent of your ISP. That way you can change ISPs at will without affecting your email.

I took out an address at iname.com (now grandfathered into mail.com) before moving from Ohio in 1997. I've moved twice and changed ISPs 4 or 5 times since then, but that old iname adress just keeps chugging along - I just have it forwarded to my new acount every time I change ISPs.

Many organizations (alumni groups, profesional associations, even some online forums, etc) have free mail-forwarding account available. And of course there are mail services like Gmail, Hotmail, et.
 
Makai Guy's advice is the best, but in case you really want to keep it, check to see if you can maintain a low-cost account just for hosting a forwarding email address. We had that option with our previous ISP.
 
I am trying to find a way to get rid of Charter Cable, which is also my internet provider. When we first moved to our house, Charter was the only available high-speed internet provider so I bundled it with our TV service. I would like to consolidate Phone, TV and Internet and trying to figure out the cheapest way to do it.

I already have a e-mail account but it is not my primary address, I guess I will start migrating everything over to that address and then in a few months cancel my charter account.

Technology....:eek:
 
While I do a bit of e-mailing thru my ISP account (bellsouth.net - att.net), my primary e-mail account is at yahoo.com. Its my yahoo address that I've used to register over 100 web-accounts. Thus, if I ever switch, I'll only need to change a couple of profiles.
 
We switched from aol to google mail. I really did not want to do it. WE keep our aol account open, but every time we get an email to that account, we change it to the new google account. It has taken a while, but I figure if I move south, I can then keep my google mail without a problem.
 
I solved this problem eome time ago by getting my own domain name.

basham.com was not available, iname had reserved it.

So, I had to get a variant. You can send email to me at ts@bashams.com, MarkB@bashams.com or any email address with the format xxxx@bashams.com. Other popular workarounds seem to be addresses such as bashamfamily.com, thebashams.com etc

Costs around $10/yr actually les than what iname wanted to charge me for a personalised address. I just forward all emails to the current ISP provider address.

I also maintain email addresses at yahoo and gmail as toss away email addresses so if they attract too much spam can be abandoned.

If you think you will have to switch ISP possibly again in the future then obtaining your own domain name/email address may be worth investigating.
 
Well, definitely don't continue the problem by changing to an address at YourNewISP.com ... get a gmail address or follow the earlier suggestion to get an account, or at least a forwarder, from your alumni group or something. Or you can get email hosting at 1and1.com for $1 per month.

Here's an idea, but I don't know if you can do it at Charter. After you set up your new account, turn your old one into an autoresponder ... an address that will act like those "info@whatever.com" addresses that send back a precanned message (with your new address). This helps catch the folks you forgot to notify, or who overlooked your message.
 
Yeah, switched to Gmail because of this a while ago. Much easier, and it's free. Plenty of storage for emails, too. I figure they'll also be around for a long time.

Unfortunately, you're just going to have to bite the bullet and do it. Rip it like a bandaid! ;)
 
We have Gmail, too. We set up and account when were we planning to stop AOL, but before we dropped them, they went to free accounts, so we have both. I use Gmail and my wife uses AOL.
 
When I dropped dial up the provider would have allowed me to keep the email for a quarter of the cost of the isp service. You might want to check on that. Keep it for as long as it takes to get all of your addresses changed to the new address.
 
I switched ISPs and email addresses from @choiceonemail.com to @verizon.net, about 2 years ago and after 5 years with the Choice One service. It was really no problem at all. I didn't lose any contacts and the amount of unfiltered spam dropped from half a dozen a day to one every couple months (if that). What I did with the frequent sites I visit is, I went through the bookmarks top to bottom, changing the account information. It wasn't that hard. The biggest problem has been what you've written, legacy registrations at sites that I use infrequently, enough that I don't have them marked; they require an email address to resend the password, and if I forgot the password... well, best to re-register.
 
You *may* be able to keep the front part of your email, and only change the domain name. That will make it easier for people to remember.

Example:
current email:
MalibuSky@pacbell.net

new email:
MalibuSky@gmail.com

I do agree, however, that the problem is with the websites that required your email and a password; if you don't remember the password, the usual method is for them to send it to your old email, and that will bounce.
 
talent312 a question

Talent312 said:
While I do a bit of e-mailing thru my ISP account (bellsouth.net - att.net), my primary e-mail account is at yahoo.com. Its my yahoo address that I've used to register over 100 web-accounts. Thus, if I ever switch, I'll only need to change a couple of profiles.
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We have Yahoo.com as our email provider. Are you saying we could cancel our ATT that controls the computer, fax and cellphones yet keep the Yahoo.com email account that we have had for decades? We want to switch cellphone providers but have been afraid we would lose our email address.
 
Cathyb said:
We have Yahoo.com as our email provider. Are you saying we could cancel our ATT that controls the computer, fax and cellphones yet keep the Yahoo.com email account that we have had for decades? We want to switch cellphone providers but have been afraid we would lose our email address.
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Absolutely.
 
isisdave said:
Well, definitely don't continue the problem by changing to an address at YourNewISP.com ... get a gmail address or follow the earlier suggestion to get an account, or at least a forwarder, from your alumni group or something. Or you can get email hosting at 1and1.com for $1 per month.

Here's an idea, but I don't know if you can do it at Charter. After you set up your new account, turn your old one into an autoresponder ... an address that will act like those "info@whatever.com" addresses that send back a precanned message (with your new address). This helps catch the folks you forgot to notify, or who overlooked your message.
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How do you do this?
 
Call your current ISP and see if they provide the service or can do.

Mine does not and if yours does not, you have to consider some of the other suggestions.
 
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Malibu Sky said:
How do you do this?
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You may or may not have this capability to create an auto-responder with your current email provider. Generally you would log into the web access to your account via your internet browser and explore the options available.
 
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