One of my inactive email addresses is posted on someone's web page. It's for a different ISP than I use now. Is there a way that if anyone sends mail to that inactive address, the mail would be forwarded to my current email address? Changing email addresses can be a real pain, and this is one of the reasons why. Be it on a web page that you can't update, or in the address books of all your friends and family, you know that someone will try to use your old email address long after you've switched it. A forwarding service would certainly be nice. Yep. It'd certainly be nice. But in general, while it's possible, it's not very likely, or it's going to cost you. When email gets sent to "someaddress@example.com", the "someaddress" part is ignored by everyone except for the mail servers at "example.com". Every mail server that isn't "example.com" simply looks at the email and says, in effect, "oh, this needs to go to example.com", and sends it there. It's not until the mail actually gets to the servers at "example.com" that the individual email recipient is examined, and the appropriate mailbox is found, or other action taken. The upshot is this: if forwarding is to be done, it must be done by your old ISP. No matter what, they're going to get all the email sent to your old address since it's "at" their domain. Only they can then forward it. The problem is twofold: first, many ISPs and mail servers simply don't provide an email forwarding service. Hotmail is a good example. You can't close a Hotmail account and ask for all email that might come in on that account to be forwarded to some other email address. Second, for those that do support it, it basically means keeping your old account open so that it can receive, and then forward, your email. Keeping it open, of course, implies that it might cost you some amount per month. There are various email forwarding services out there, but they basically take the later approach: you give them enough information for them to keep your old account open, and they manage the forwarding process for you. I typically don't recommend them - if you're going to keep your old account open anyway, why involve someone else? What I do recommend is owning your own domain, and using email addresses on that domain. When you purchase a domain name, most domain registrars will allow you to specify email addresses to be forwarded, and where they might forward to. So, let's say you purchase the domain "joe-example.info". When you register your domain, you can then set up the email address "joe@joe-example.info" to forward wherever you like ... your Hotmail account, your ISP-based email account, or whatever. You would also configure your email program to send from "joe@joe-example.info". Then, when you change from Hotmail to GMail, or from one ISP to another, you simply reconfigure the forwarding to the new service. Everyone using your public email address, "joe@joe-example.info", sees no difference, and all your email arrives at your new service. Related:
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please i want to gainmy old mailback cos i have my account there Posted by: kunpa at February 21, 2007 02:05 AMrecently my old email address and all email messages were suddenly taken away without my consent. How do I get both of them back.? I do not want a new email address.How can I forward my old info. to my new information? Posted by: Shirley Derricote at March 21, 2007 11:39 AMtry this website. they will help you to change your old email address to current email address.. Posted by: michael comerie at August 12, 2007 04:47 PMI couldn't log into my old account as it said I used the wrong e-mail address or password to many times. This happened the first time I tried and I suspect someone was trying to guess my password. Anyways, I got a new e-mail and want the original one back as it has all my contacts on it. I want the original one back with a new password. Can I do this??? thanks, Martie Posted by: martie at October 30, 2007 10:58 AMWhat steps do I take to retrieve my address book from hotmail and forward it to aol? Posted by: Frank at November 1, 2007 04:14 PM-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- I'm not aware of a way to do it automatically. Leo
iD8DBQFHKqMYCMEe9B/8oqERApc5AJsFq8/Rhv+F4THJ+IgX3yt96gRFBQCeN4Nx i need to recover or change my lost/forgotten password and answer to the security key question yahoo posted an upgrade for email--when I accepted the upgrade, I lost all my folders and old email. How can I transfer all my records to the upgraded email? Posted by: barbara lach at February 11, 2008 11:58 AMhow do i retrieve email from aol? Posted by: louise hallett at March 19, 2008 04:06 PMDomain ownership needs to renewed. This means you MUST remember to pay the fee. If you forget/ignore reminders, an energetic scoundrel can purchase ownership. Then, you gave to bargin with the "person" to regain what Was yours. Posted by: Bob at July 1, 2008 10:08 AMPost a comment on "How do I forward my old email address?":
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