Keeping old email address

babyface uk · 29 Dec 2006 at 12:57

Afternoon all,

Am thinking of moving from AOL to another isp but would I still have the use of my old AOL email addresses?? or are they gone when I cancel with AOL?

Ta

Babyface UK

tolien · 29 Dec 2006 at 13:01

IIRC there's an option to downgrade the account to email-only or dialup, but otherwise the account would be gone.

Radiation · 29 Dec 2006 at 14:29

Isp's usually give up to a month until the email is taken away, but im wondering what most people do with their emails addresses, do most migrate all the sites they've signed up to over to their new isp's address or do they use a dedicated email service so this problem goes away?

HomerJ · 29 Dec 2006 at 15:15

For forums etc I try and use my hotmail or gmail addresses. For everything else I use email addresses at my domain name i never use my ISP email for anything

Anchundan · 13 Feb 2007 at 11:02

HomerJ said:
For forums etc I try and use my hotmail or gmail addresses. For everything else I use email addresses at my domain name i never use my ISP email for anything

My old e-mail address was finally taken away from me. I have hotmail, but wasn't allowed to register with this forum. So I opened a gmail account (This can be pop3 - I thought this was the problem) - but this OcUK forum has banned that one too!

Not sure how to re-register a correct email address with them - I live in China, so it makes things a little more complicated!

LoadsaMoney · 13 Feb 2007 at 12:46

Yeah you lose the e-mail, just gone from AOL to UKFSN here, account gets closed.

Yeah you cant use hotmail/GMail etc... here.

Radiation · 13 Feb 2007 at 13:40

AlfCheesey said:
My old e-mail address was finally taken away from me. I have hotmail, but wasn't allowed to register with this forum. So I opened a gmail account (This can be pop3 - I thought this was the problem) - but this OcUK forum has banned that one too!

Not sure how to re-register a correct email address with them - I live in China, so it makes things a little more complicated!

Yeah its quite silly they do this as they will never block all the free sites out there or have any real impact on someone who wishes to cause problems.

ste_bla · 13 Feb 2007 at 15:44

AlfCheesey said:
My old e-mail address was finally taken away from me. I have hotmail, but wasn't allowed to register with this forum. So I opened a gmail account (This can be pop3 - I thought this was the problem) - but this OcUK forum has banned that one too!

Not sure how to re-register a correct email address with them - I live in China, so it makes things a little more complicated!

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Anchundan · 14 Feb 2007 at 12:38

nope - they've blocked that one too!