move ...and email address?

building

we are looking at moving but i subscribe to a lot of things via email which are really important to me. what is the best thing to do. i am with ntl at the moment but will be based in france and do not wish to miss out on my emails. any feedback appreciated. thanks in advance.

drlight_2

Thier are two types of email accounts, a pop3 acount is where you emails are stored on the web and you can acces them with a user name & pass from any computer connected to the web.
The other kind is where you use something like outlok express to connect to your ISP's (NTL's) mail server & download your message into outlook, this type of email is canceled when you cancel your ISP.

You should open a pop3 account (yahoo, hotmail.co.uk) and go through your inbox and change you email adress with all the subcriptions you want to keep.
You could also check to see if your email account with NTL is pop3 and whether they keep it open after you've cancelled your internet account, I'm not sure whether they do but bt do.

Debt_Free_Chick

drlight wrote:

Thier are two types of email accounts, a pop3 acount is where you emails are stored on the web and you can acces them with a user name & pass from any computer connected to the web.
The other kind is where you use something like outlok express to connect to your ISP's (NTL's) mail server & download your message into outlook, this type of email is canceled when you cancel your ISP.

You should open a pop3 account (yahoo, hotmail.co.uk) and go through your inbox and change you email adress with all the subcriptions you want to keep.
You could also check to see if your email account with NTL is pop3 and whether they keep it open after you've cancelled your internet account, I'm not sure whether they do but bt do.

Are you sure you've got that the right way around? AFAIK, a POP3 account means that you need an email client (e.g. OE) in order to collect your mail from the (POP3) mail server.

Web-mail means that you access email via your internet browser, a bit like forums like MSE.

Some POP3 accounts offer internet/web access too ....

v confusing

Mattjimf

POP3 is a protocol that allows you to retrieve mail, basically if you have a email account that supports POP3 you can use an email or another web based account to access your emails. Nearly all email providers allow the use of POP3. The problems start if the email provider you are with do not provide POP3 settings, which you need to set up email clients and retrieving your mail from other web based email accounts or use another form of accessing your mail such as AOL who use IMAP.
For the OP here is the link for accessing your ntl emails via the web.

drlight_2

POP3 is web based mail, you can only connect to pop2 via your isp connection.
MSE forums arn't either.

drlight_2

Debt_Free_Chick wrote:

Are you sure you've got that the right way around? AFAIK, a POP3 account means that you need an email client (e.g. OE) in order to collect your mail from the (POP3) mail server.

Web-mail means that you access email via your internet browser, a bit like forums like MSE.

Some POP3 accounts offer internet/web access too ....

v confusing

yes, you need an email client for any type of email account & you can use oulook for both. basically if it's a pop3 account you can connect to the internet log into your pop3 acouunt and browse your mail server and delete messages ect. You can also use outlook to download & delete messages from the server. A pop2 account, messages are strored privately on servers which basically arn't always connected to the internet & you don't get to browse or edit your messages, but you can basically connect to download new messages, then they are automatically deleted from the server.

Merkin

You should register a domain name so you can get your mail redirected to whichever account you want. Example you register "mynewmailaddress.com" and you change all your accounts to yourname@mynewmailaddress.com.

You can then get the mail redirected to whatever account you like and use a new ISP or use web based mail like hotmail, gmail etc.

Benefit is that you can change your ISP and still keep your email address. And if you don't like the webmail service or a better one comes along you don't have to change your address again - just update the forwarding address.

Another nice feature is that you can use any name before the @ symbol. If I don't trust a site (think they may use my address for spamming) I use the name of the website in the email address (like dodgysitename@mynewmailaddress.com) so if I get spam on that address I know where it originated!

Hope that helps.

P.S. If you want a gmail account pm me and I'll send you an invite

spook

Unfortunately there's a lot of wrong information in this thread! I hope this helps clarify things...

There aren't "two types of e-mail accounts" - an e-mail account is an e-mail account - but there are a few different ways of accessing it.

Two of the most common ways of accessing e-mail accounts are POP3 (a protocol used by programs like Outlook Express to download your mail), and webmail (reading your messages on a website, using your web browser).

Most 'paid' e-mail providers or ISPs (NTL included) offer, at the very least, POP3 access and webmail. 'Free' services (such as Hotmail) usually only offer webmail.

Unfortunately, companies like NTL will delete your email account pretty quickly if you leave them. You could always try connecting to them via webmail after you leave, but it probably won't work for long. So you will need a new e-mail address, which you can set up now and move all of your mail subscriptions over gradually.

I'd recommend Google Mail (aka Gmail) for a good, free, mail service. (They provide webmail and limited POP3 access). Ask an existing customer for an invite.

If you want an address that you will never have to change, even if Google goes bust :rolleyes: the best advice is Merkin's suggestion, to buy your own domain name (.co.uk domains cost only about £5/year) and ask the domain registrar company (such as 123reg) to redirect your incoming mail to your free e-mail address. (You can usually do this through their account management pages). Then if you lose the address in the future, you just find another free address and change the redirection.

As a bonus, having your own domain name gives you unlimited potential e-mail addresses (you can put anything you like before the @) so you can have separate addresses (forwarded to lots of separate free accounts) for friends, companies, spammers, etc... if you want. :cool:

Mr_Skint_2

spook wrote:

Unfortunately there's a lot of wrong information in this thread! I hope this helps clarify things...

There aren't "two types of e-mail accounts" - an e-mail account is an e-mail account - but there are a few different ways of accessing it.

Oh dear what about IMAP and HTTP accounts then...

Marsh_Samphire

I'm not up on the technical terms for all this but I sign up to things using my gmail (google) address and then it forwards all the emails to my personal email address that I have with my internet service provider. If I ever need to change service provider, all I will do is type the new details into my gmail and it will forward them to the new address. All the mail is also kept on gmail so if I am away from home I can still see old and new emails that I've received.

Mattjimf

Mr_Skint wrote:

Oh dear what about IMAP and HTTP accounts then...

Just ways of connecting to the server handling your email account, all these acronyms are just protocols used to talk to the servers and retrieve the information stored on them.
IMAP = Internet Messaging Access Protocol
POP3 = Post Office Protocol 3
HTTP = HyperText Transfer Protocol
SMTP = Simple Mail Transfer Protocol