New Broadband + old email address

patgc

Probably a silly question but bear with me please.
Have just been connected to Madasafish broadband this weekend. Can I still use my old email address from Supanet and Giomail(Breathe) to send and receive mail. Supanet is a dail up address payg and Gio was (finishes end of month) 24/7 monthly payment. Or do I have to get a new address.

Merkin

I doubt you will be able to send/receive using unless you actually use those services to connect. You should get a domain of your own and have the mail forwarded to your new account. If you then decide to change ISP you just change the redirector but keep the same email address.

I have a few doomains registered - cost about £3/year I think for a .co.uk address. Good thing is you can have unlimited email addresses as well.
If I go to a site that I think mught be dodgy I use their name in the email address I supply so I can see if they pass it on for spam (i.e. my main email could be me@mydomain.co.uk but I would use dodgysitename@mydomain.co.uk).

I use these: http://www.ukreg.com/

greyster

You may be able to recieve mail from them at the moment but they may decide to delete your account through inactivity. I doubt you can send mail without connecting to them direct.

I would follow the guys advise above as your own domain will follow you wherever you go. Most people just grab a free email address such as hotmail, yahoo or gmail. I highly recommend gmail. These ones also can be connected to from any internet account.

scheming_gypsy

just change the outgoing server details to that of your new providers SMTP server and you'll be able to use them till / if they expire

patgc

I have changed the details in Outlook Express and made my new Madasafish address my default. Have sent some test messages to both my old Supanet and Gio address and they go through fine.

patgc

What exactly is a Domain address ? Madasafish are offering a FREE domain name. Should I take up the offer and how do I use it.
Have seen GMail mentioned in the forum but again, don;t know what that is. Sorry to be so dim, but its taking me a while to get clued up on all this new technology

-TangleFoot-

An e-mail account is similar to a PO Box in that it is somewhere you can collect messages from. Unlike a PO Box, you can collect those messages from wherever you happen to be.

When you send an e-mail, it does not magically travel through your own mailbox on the way to its destination; the message is instead bounced from relay to relay until it ends up in the mailbox of the intended recipient.

In bygone days when SPAM was just something to be laughed at or eaten, most mail servers would obligingly forward anything, no questions asked. Unfortunately for some, this is no longer the case. You probably won't be able to send messages using the SMTP server(s) of your previous ISP, but you'll still be able to check your old mailbox for messages so long as the account remains active.

You could avoid the problem entirely by making use of services such as Mail2Web, but this is hardly ideal if you're used to the likes of Outlook Express. Read the instructions on this page, substituting 'BT' and 'BT Yahoo!' for 'Madasafish', and you'll have a fair idea of what needs to be done.


As for GMail... it has something to do with Google.

Merkin

patgc wrote:

What exactly is a Domain address ? Madasafish are offering a FREE domain name. Should I take up the offer and how do I use it.
Have seen GMail mentioned in the forum but again, don;t know what that is. Sorry to be so dim, but its taking me a while to get clued up on all this new technology

The domain name is the web address or the bit after the @ in an email address.

If you signed up with an provider (eg bt) you usually get an email address like <yourname>@btinternet.com. If you register your own domain name you can use a different mail address - name@whatever.com.
You just get the domain provider to redirect your mail to your fixed address (the btinternet one). When you send mail set your reply address to the new one and it looks like it's coming from you@whatever.com.

I got a 'free' domain name from one of my old providers (on dial up) but when I changed to broadband they wanted loads of money for me to take it with me (about £100 or something). I now register my own for a few pounds a year.

Gmail (GoogleMail in UK) is a free web based email facility like hotmail etc. but run by Google.
http://mail.google.com/mail/help/intl/en-GB/about.html

scoobs1967

when we moved house i could no longer recieve NTL so had to change to ADSL but can still access ntl email to send and recieve

grimbo

I moved from wannadoo to toucan august 2005, still use wannadoo for home page and to send and recieve email on.