Change e-mail address

[alexpops]

Another option is get your own domain name & set up e-mail there instead of g-mail. ISP is immaterial then and as long as you keep the domain, you have the e-mail. I use GoDaddy, but there are others. A forward on the old account to the new e-mail box (and/or change of e-mail auto response/new e-mail notice in sig line of new account) are methods I've used in the past. Just make sure you get your address of contacts if it's stored at current ISP on webmail or something like that. Good luck.

 

[bigtiller]

Another option is get your own domain name & set up e-mail there instead of g-mail. ISP is immaterial then and as long as you keep the domain, you have the e-mail. I use GoDaddy, but there are others. A forward on the old account to the new e-mail box (and/or change of e-mail auto response/new e-mail notice in sig line of new account) are methods I've used in the past. Just make sure you get your address of contacts if it's stored at current ISP on webmail or something like that. Good luck.

Is that easy to do?

So far, most of this stuff is over my head.

 

[Jstpssng]

Is that easy to do?

So far, most of this stuff is over my head.

Some of us are learning from your questions, and the answers given.

 

[/pine]

The only issue with private domain / mail servers is some filters will flag messages @yourdomain as spam...

setting up a domain is easy with most hosts and have point and click functionality...(i.e., control panel)...

 

[deserteagle71]

Earlier this year I was informed by my ISP that they would no longer be hosting email accounts. Meaning the domain was going away completely and all emails stored in that domain would be lost completely unless I saved them to a file or forwarded each email I wanted to keep to a new email account. Since I'd had this email address for over 20 years it turned out to be a total pain in the butt. There were a lot of emails that were important to me that I wanted to keep; not knowing which way was best to keep those emails I chose to forward them to a new email account I created with another provider. That turned out to be a bad decision as now there is no way of sorting those emails. They are all there in the new email accounts...but the dates are the dates I forwarded the email, and the "from" is my own name from my old account.

 

[alexpops]

Go daddy is pretty good about help,once you set up an account, others, not so much. The process isn't too difficult, but will vary with the provider. General rule ... if its free, you're on your own. If you pay, they will be more customer oriented.

 

[Torvy]

Earlier this year I was informed by my ISP that they would no longer be hosting email accounts. Meaning the domain was going away completely and all emails stored in that domain would be lost completely unless I saved them to a file or forwarded each email I wanted to keep to a new email account. Since I'd had this email address for over 20 years it turned out to be a total pain in the butt. There were a lot of emails that were important to me that I wanted to keep; not knowing which way was best to keep those emails I chose to forward them to a new email account I created with another provider. That turned out to be a bad decision as now there is no way of sorting those emails. They are all there in the new email accounts...but the dates are the dates I forwarded the email, and the "from" is my own name from my old account.

You can always download emails from the server to your computer.

 

[deserteagle71]

You can always download emails from the server to your computer.

Nope. We all got a letter from the ISP, warning us that as of 1 February 2022 any and all emails would no longer be available and telling us to either save all the emails we wanted to keep in some kind of file, or forward them to the new email address. Direct quote from the letter: "As of this date, the server will be shut down and all emails stored there will cease to exist. There will be no way to access or restore them".

 

[duffer]

Personally, I have 2 email accts. One for non-essential stuff like shopping, or any google controlled stuff like YouTube. Facebook, Twitter, Amazon all capture and sell your personal data. Use the non-esential email for that stuff. The 2nd email is for sensitive stuff like banking, etc.

I've used Thunderbird (TB) for a decade as the email program that controls both email addresses at the same time. Stores messages, filters out spam, and if you ever change email addresses again, it's a snap to "edit" the account(s) in TB. TB also lets you flag any message to be held in a folder of your choice forever, or until you manually erase it. The other emails go away after a certain time frame of your choosing.

If your ISP lets you keep your old email address, you can easily set up an email acct within TB to control it. Otherwise you need to find a "private" email account that is secure. Several have already been identified in prior posts, like Proton. Here is a link that lists some others you may want to investigate: 4 Best free Secure Email Providers | No cost & ad free

 

[/pine]

Earlier this year I was informed by my ISP that they would no longer be hosting email accounts. Meaning the domain was going away completely and all emails stored in that domain would be lost completely unless I saved them to a file or forwarded each email I wanted to keep to a new email account. Since I'd had this email address for over 20 years it turned out to be a total pain in the butt. There were a lot of emails that were important to me that I wanted to keep; not knowing which way was best to keep those emails I chose to forward them to a new email account I created with another provider. That turned out to be a bad decision as now there is no way of sorting those emails. They are all there in the new email accounts...but the dates are the dates I forwarded the email, and the "from" is my own name from my old account.

Can you not search by "subject"...?...also there are some ways to populate a searchable database with the messages and or headers which will contain the original sender and dates etc...