On changing your email address

Primrose

Apart feom notifying everybody in your email address book is there any way of notidying all the casual contacts one may have given one's email address tod over the years.? Presumably email address providers don't offer a service like Royal Mail do which offers a forwarding service for mail when you move house?

Presumably one just has to check websites of comanies like Banks, Amazon or other services you use and check any personal details or profiles you may have stored on them?

cookie365

If the old email address still works you can set up the auto forward yourself, or set an autoreply with details of the new address, or both.

ISPs cancel email addresses when you leave after days, weeks, months, or sometimes never, and you'll probably get no warning.

If you use a password manager, use or add the registration email field to record which address you used when setting up the account, then export that in a format you can use as a to do list for updating.

Tip - do the same for stored credit card numbers too, so when you get a new card you know which sites to change so you don't miss a payment.

Uxb

It's a hopeless task.
The banks/purchased from companies/forums etc are the easiest one - provide you do have a list and are organised.
I do indeed keep a record of the registration email in the password manager

It's the people in your address book that are the problem
They will either:
1. Ignore your request to change your email address in their address book...because well they can't be arrrrrsed.
2. Put it in but as a new contact rather than a mod' to the existing one....and then use the old one.
3. Regardless of the above they will anyway merely take an old email from you when they want to send you one, click reply and use that as the template.....to you old address.

As you may gather - I simply hate people.

Owain_Moneysaver

It's cheap and easy to register your own domain and have unlimited personal email addresses, and be completely independent of your ISP's email system.

Collabora

Owain_Moneysaver wrote: »

It's cheap and easy to register your own domain and have unlimited personal email addresses, and be completely independent of your ISP's email system.

Not TRUE. yes you can register a domain, but this in itself does not give you any email addresses.

To use it for emails you will also need to purchase email hosting ( a hosting plan that only allows you to set up email accounts and these will be limited such as https://www.123-reg.co.uk/email-hosting/personal-email-packages.shtml

onomatopoeia99

Collabora wrote: »

Not TRUE. yes you can register a domain, but this in itself does not give you any email addresses.

To use it for emails you will also need to purchase email hosting ( a hosting plan that only allows you to set up email accounts and these will be limited such as https://www.123-reg.co.uk/email-hosting/personal-email-packages.shtml

Or you could run your own mail server and point the MX record for the domain at that. Then you can have unlimited email addresses on that domain.

A Raspberry Pi with a raspian install has more than sufficient processing power to handle exim as the MTA and something like courier as a pop3 or imap server. You could even install apache and run roundcube on that to provide a webmail interface. And it'll run from AA batteries, or a phone charger.

If you've had an email address for 20 years though, it's easier to move house than change it.

Collabora

onomatopoeia99 wrote: »

Or you could run your own mail server and point the MX record for the domain at that. Then you can have unlimited email addresses on that domain.

A Raspberry Pi with a raspian install has more than sufficient processing power to handle exim as the MTA and something like courier as a pop3 or imap server. You could even install apache and run roundcube on that to provide a webmail interface. And it'll run from AA batteries, or a phone charger.

If you've had an email address for 20 years though, it's easier to move house than change it.

but my reply was to Owain Moneysaver's comment of just registering a domain and having unlimited personal emails, which is NOT TRUE as what you state you need a mail server, whether you have your own or rent space on one

RobTang

Collabora wrote: »

but my reply was to Owain Moneysaver's comment of just registering a domain and having unlimited personal emails, which is NOT TRUE as what you state you need a mail server, whether you have your own or rent space on one

Lots of the larger registrars offer web and email forwarding as part of their registration fee (without explicit hosting packages), you could always forward it on to whatever email provider you are currently using, although a properly hosted mail server is preferable.

Collabora

RobTang wrote: »

Lots of the larger registrars offer web and email forwarding as part of their registration fee (without explicit hosting packages), you could always forward it on to whatever email provider you are currently using, although a properly hosted mail server is preferable.

That relies on you already having a domain on a mail server as it would be forwarded to a mail server.

I should know as this is my business and currently managed in excess of £1000 domains for clients

RumRat

It's not difficult, Just get your new email provider to pick up your old email address until everyone is using your new one.....No need for any complications.

securityguy

Collabora wrote: »

Not TRUE. yes you can register a domain, but this in itself does not give you any email addresses.

To use it for emails you will also need to purchase email hosting ( a hosting plan that only allows you to set up email accounts and these will be limited such as https://www.123-reg.co.uk/email-hosting/personal-email-packages.shtml

You can just direct the mail to gmail, however, which won't cost you anything. Almost all registrars provide mail forwarding free, even if they charge for mail hosting.