pop e-mail advice needed - leaving isp

tgbyhn10111

tgbyhn10111

tgbyhn10111

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Hi

I'm with virgin media at the moment and have registered my isp e-mail address at hundreds of sites over the years. I'm moving in a few weeks and need to change to a BT based ISP as there is no cable where I am moving.

I want to find a pop service I can user for the rest of my natural, regardless of which isp I use and it needs to be fairly cheap.

Not looking forward to changing all my accounts to the new e-mail address. Is there any way of redirecting my e-mail from my old isp address to my new one. Any advice appreciated

Thanks
 
Set up forwarding on the account, you should be able to access the account via the web and set it up there, I personally have stopped using IPS email accounts just for the simple fact you mentioned, you swap providers and then its a pain to sort out.

I believe that gmail (or googlemail now) allows POP access since recently, and its a good online email service you can take anywhere. My opinion is to ditch ISP emails for main accounts and use a web based one, most are free I believe, I moved from hotmail to gmail years ago and wouldnt go back now, I backup my online emails periodically to Thunderbird at home so it gives peace of mind.
 
Virgin will almost certainly switch off your old e-mail address, if not now or straight away in the not too distant future.
You're no longer a customer, so you'll lose the right to use their e-mail address.

Your best bet is to go and register yourself your own domain name.
A co.uk, me.uk or org.uk address will set you back around £6 every two years - so that won't break the bank.
Once you own the domain you can create yourself any number of personal e-mail addresses which can be forwarded to any other address.
In the future should you change ISP you would simply need to make one change - where the e-mail is forwarded to and that would be it.

Example:

Purchase myowndomain.co.uk
Create the address [email protected]
Set [email protected] to forward all mail to [email protected]

I'm using BT Broadband and anything sent to the personal address above is sent to my BT Broadband address.
My e-mail program of choice (Outlook) has the Fom address of [email protected] so as far as the world is concerned that is my full address.
A year passes and I move to Zen internet where I'm given the address [email protected]
I now set [email protected] to forward to [email protected]
As far as the world is concerned I've not changed my e-mail address, all I've had to do is change where I recieve it.
 
I'm with stoofa - go register yourself a domain name (.com or .co.uk looks best :)), and either forward emails to your web-based address, or get some hosting, and access them directly by POP...

£6 for 2 years on a .co.uk, and get yourself some cheap webhosting to point it at. Hosting costs me $30 a year, from a US-based company (always loads cheaper than UK-based hosting) My own email address, plus some hosting for just over £20 a year isn't bad...
 
Must admit I'm getting tempted by going down the route of having a web-based email account now. Tradtionally I have stuck with the same ISP for a few years (Barrysworld for 2.5 years, Nildram for 4.5) but since getting my own house I've had both NTL and Sky, and will probably be migrating to Be when my 12-month contract expires.

I used to have a softhome account years ago but they ended up nerfing it so that you had to pay to avoid it being hideously crippled.
 
email isn't that important to me so i just use gmail. saying that it's always been available. i think i had one occasion when the pop server wasn't responding - the web interface was still working. can't believe it's been going for 3 years now....

what i like most about gmail is even though it supports pop3 (since day 1 over 3 years ago) and moves all the mail from your inbox when you download it, you can still view the email online as it's stored in an "all mail" folder. i know you can configure pop3 clients to leave mail on the server but it's not as good as this. :)
 
Use Google Mail.

Use the POP Function and you can get Google Mail to keep a copy so you can access your emails anywhere.
 
"Virgin will almost certainly switch off your old e-mail address, if not now or straight away in the not too distant future.
You're no longer a customer, so you'll lose the right to use their e-mail address."

I'm not sure about this . I'm now with BT but had been with Freeserve,Tiscali,and Tesco.
I've used my tesco e-mail for absolute years now and it's still active and so is the tiscali one .I was led to believe if you use the e-mail service , it is kept active. I would be snookered if my tesco e-mail was switched of as I have most forums etc registered to this one. I know in the past with ips's like Freeserve [no longer going] if you didn't use their service for 90 days your account would be deleted. So, check with virgin on this .
 
Thanks for all the suggestions.

I have a domain registered at 123-reg but have never used it or the free e-mail service that comes with it as I wasn't sure how reliable / good it would be. Would that be sufficient for my needs? I paid £6.09 for 2 years is that reasonable? I'm concerned the renewal costs will be a lot higher. It says there is no smtp; am I right in thinking I would use the smtp server of my new isp in this setup?

Also, Will I always be given first option of renewing ownership of mydomain and what if 123-reg go bump, could the domain be transfered elsewhere?

Thinking of giving everyone a different e-mail address at mydomain.co.uk so that if I get spam I can turn off that e-mail address and I'll know where it has come from. If I moved mydomain to a different host, would I lose all the forwarding info? Also, the e-mail forwarding control panel at 123-reg is a bit pants, are there any hosts with a really good interface?

Ideally, I need to get my e-mail really fast for reasons I won't go into but a delay of 30 seconds would be a problem. If I did set everything to be sent to mydomain.co.uk and then forward that to gmail, then access that in outlook, would that introduce a huge delay? Delay or not it's looking like my best option.

Brucelee mentioned forwarding, does anyone know if virgin media offer forwarding?

Rickyt suggests the account may stay active, anyone know? I will ask them.

Thanks again

Pete
 
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