One of the age old problems.. I assume his old e-mail address will be a BT one? He'll have to see if they do a mail forwarding service, some companies do, he'll have to phone and ask them. I do know that Eclipse keep their e-mail running even after you've left them, Mines still active 8 years after leaving them, and I just get my e-mail proggy to still collect the e-mail via pop3..
But, the advice is more about hindsight, it really pays these days to register a domain name (< £2.99 a year for a .co.uk), as most registration companies (e.g.
www.123-reg.co.uk), offer free services on domains registered through them to allow e-mail forwarding/web site forwarding to occur.
This means everytime you change ISP's you keep the same e-mail address, and just change the 'forwarding' address to your new ISP..
e.g. if you registered the domain
www.something.co.uk, you can give your friends your e-mail address as
[email protected] (you can use whatever you want infront of the @ symbol too, so if you want to trace where e-mail is coming from, you can put the persons name/companies name there, e.g.
[email protected]), you can then use companies like 123-reg to forward all mail to your current ISP email address..
The same goes for website space etc, you can make your domain name point to the webspace provided by your current ISP, so again if you change, people still only type in
www.something.co.uk for your website, despite changing ISPs or hosting companies.
