Change e-mail address

bigtiller · Jul 22, 2022

I have had the same e-mail since the beginning. But now we have the opportunity to up grade to fiber cable with a different company. If we do the change over, our e-mail address will change.

How much of a hassle is it going to be to change over?

We have a number of companies, government entities, etc. that are impossible to talk to a human being to make the transfer easy. I have no idea how to do this.

Even here on tbn, I have no idea how to change my address without loosing my history.

Anyone ever done it before, and survived?

turnkey4099 · Jul 22, 2022

I'm sorta in the same postion. Very computer illiterate. I get the newspaper 4 day/wk on paper and 3 days e-mail. That has somehow quit sending it and the paper inisists it is the outfit that is supposed to deliveer it. They tried to connect me via computer but no luck.

I am consideering just getting an ADDITIONAL e-mail justfor the paper and alerting the paper to change it on their end.

/pine · Jul 22, 2022

An option with SOME ISP's is an e-mail only account...you might check with your current provider...

bigtiller · Jul 22, 2022

/pine said:
An option with SOME ISP's is an e-mail only account...you might check with your current provider...

I called my provider last week. A wind stream computer eventually connected me to someone that had a soft voice and spoke english poorly. I think I need a new modem but I need to wait 3.5 weeks (August 9) for a technician to arrive.

MossRoad · Jul 22, 2022

bigtiller said:
I have had the same e-mail since the beginning. But now we have the opportunity to up grade to fiber cable with a different company. If we do the change over, our e-mail address will change.

How much of a hassle is it going to be to change over?

We have a number of companies, government entities, etc. that are impossible to talk to a human being to make the transfer easy. I have no idea how to do this.

Even here on tbn, I have no idea how to change my address without loosing my history.

Anyone ever done it before, and survived?

You could set up a free Gmail account, then create a rule in your existing email account to forward all email in your existing email account to your new Gmail account. Then apply the rule and that would get everything transferred from old to new.

Then set up another rule in your existing email account to automatically forward anything that comes to it from today on to your gmail account. That will keep things going to your gmail account until the original email account is closed.

You’ll have to go into all of your accounts at banks, utilities, etc., and change the info in there to reflect your new gmail address, if you want to continue to receive email from them.

Personally, I wouldn’t have an email account at an ISP just for this reason. If you leave, you have to switch. Just like using a work email or cell phone for personal use…. You change jobs and lose access.

cqaigy2 · Jul 22, 2022

I would really try and do what / is saying, if at all possible.

Doofy · Jul 22, 2022

I just let the Wife do all my Techie stuff including phone, computer, tablet and weather station.

timbatrader · Jul 22, 2022

When I changed internet supplier and set up a new email address I cancelled internet from the old company but pay a few dollars a month to retain the old email address. All emails to the old address are forewarded to my new address (your old email help desk can do this for you if you cant find how to do it yourself) All emails that are not junk I reply from my New address telling them I have changed email address. doing this by email from your new address makes it easy for the person at the other end to update there records after a year or so you should be able to cancel the old address

George2615 · Jul 22, 2022

It can be a hassle going to each site or forum where you use your email. There is no magic wand that will change them all. It's just time consuming. I've changed my Email once before and basically logged into each site and went to my user log-in settings and changed the Email addr. Took about 1 1/2 hours for me. Here on TBN changing your Email has nothing to do with losing your history. If you change your user or log-in name then you may lose prior history. There is a section on this site in acct. details to change user name but I don't know how it affects history. Admin can change your user name that will keep your prior history.
For this site right click your user name in the blue bar above.
Click on password and security
Click on details
Click change Email
The procedure should be similar on every site you use your Email with.

Snobdds · Jul 22, 2022

I don't think ISP drop email addresses just because you switch to a new ISP. I still give out my AOL email even through I haven't used them in over 20 years.

mjonesnh · Jul 22, 2022

When we changed to fiber with local power company comcast let us continue to keep our email addresses. Cannot add new ones but could retain existing ones.

M59 · Jul 22, 2022

bigtiller,

MossRoad's answer is spot on since I presume you get to choose when you leave your current email provider and move to the provider using fiber.

I would suggest a 12 to 18 month cut over to catch those once per year notices. Create one or more gmail ( google ) accounts.

Create a Gmail account - Gmail Help

To sign up for Gmail, create a Google Account. You can use the username and password to sign in to Gmail and other Google products like YouTube, Goo

support.google.com

I have several gmail accounts and each is created for a different purpose. This keeps different types of email separate so I don't "lose"/ overlook an email because of clutter. This also tends to keep the junk email limited to one account because some businesses sell your email account name to make money. One devoted to financial transaction ( bills, bank, investments ). One devoted to IRS and other govt agencies. One for general use for signing up at web sites that will probably sell your email name. One for friends and family. I think you get the idea

Pay the bill for the current provider for 12 to 18 months and set up a forward to the general use gmail account. Carefully monitor that account for who is sending email. As you get an important email then go to that web site and revise the email of record to one of the newly created accounts, as appropriate.

Sign up now for the provider using fiber and enjoy the speed/ bandwidth of fiber for everything but the email account. Creating an email account at fiber provider puts you back into the same boat you want out of.

ps. Bernie ( feel the Burn guy ) has been happily sending email to my HappyForTrash acct for the last 4 years.

RalphVa · Jul 22, 2022

bigtiller said:
I have had the same e-mail since the beginning. But now we have the opportunity to up grade to fiber cable with a different company. If we do the change over, our e-mail address will change.

How much of a hassle is it going to be to change over?

We have a number of companies, government entities, etc. that are impossible to talk to a human being to make the transfer easy. I have no idea how to do this.

Even here on tbn, I have no idea how to change my address without loosing my history.

Anyone ever done it before, and survived?

Get an email with one of the free ones that work with any others, like gmail, hotmail, etc. Don't tag yourself to your internet provider.

I had a heck of a time convincing my wife to get us off CenturyLink to Comcast because of slow speed, etc. because she was afraid of changing her email (had an embarqmail one via CenturyLink). Well, it only took a couple days. Not bad at all. Every one of them seemed to be different in what you had to do. Not the easiest thing, but not bad.

Much better on Comcast, but they have no competition on high speed out of town here and keep raising the rates.

Xfaxman · Jul 22, 2022

I pay $3 a month to the former ISP so I didn't have to change the email address I had for many years when we went to HughesNet.

When we changed from HughesNet we did not have to do anything to keep getting emails.

I don't know how it works but it works great.

Torvy · Jul 22, 2022

Timely. I just changed my email on TBN as we are in the process of dumping the ISP. While you MAY be able to continue to get emails, don't depend on it.

It can be a good way to shed junk email...at least for a few days.

Beeenvenue · Jul 22, 2022

Snobdds said:
I don't think ISP drop email addresses just because you switch to a new ISP. I still give out my AOL email even through I haven't used them in over 20 years.

It depends (like most things in life). I just went rural and have a line of site dish company as ISP. I’ve had att email (xxx@att.net) for the last 28 years and they told me I would lose it immediately. I chose to use DIRECTV at my new house though, and since they are Part of att I get the honor of keeping my att email until I cancel DIRECTV.

I immediately signed up for a gmail address and started using that. As emails come in to my att email I either change the address with that company or ignore it as something I don’t care about

After 6 months I’m not getting many att emails that matter anymore. I’ll let that address go altogether soon.

(Yes, I even asked att if they would let me keep it if I paid some monthly fee just for the email address and the answer was NO until they realized I had a DIRECTV account)

Jstpssng · Jul 22, 2022

I had an ISP address when I first went online. That company sold out or something, so it became a dead account. I've had the same Yahoo account since going online in 2001. I don't want to think about how many accounts I'd have to change if I ever switch from this one.

/pine · Jul 22, 2022

just curious...how many that use a g-mail account have read the entire TOS and UAs...???

Diggin It · Jul 22, 2022

I have something close to 30 email addresses from a number of providers including ProtonMail listed above. Many of them are for single or very limited purposes where only a few companies have it. Others are for more general use.

It all depends on the ISP you're leaving if they kill the account right away or allow a transition period. Only they can answer that question.

And no, I don't use spyware like Gee! Mail!