Redirecting email

purplevamp

Not sure if this is the right place to post this question but...

We're on AOL and are getting increasingly annoyed at the slowness, being kicked off all the time, etc, and are thinking of changing ISP. My question is can you get your emails from your old ISP redirected to your new one, a bit like when you move house? I've looked around and cannot find the answer.

Also anyone else who is on AOL do you have problems with them?

melipona

Most ISPs disable your e-mail account soon after you terminate the contract with them. You may want to consider getting a web based email account, Yahoo,Google and so on so that in future you can more easily change you ISP, the sooner that you do it the less reliant on AOL you become.

sho_me_da_money

Why dont you get a web based one as the guy above said, redirect all the emails yourself and then get a new ISP?

And if you are going to get a web based one, get GMAIL - its the best one imho.

chunter

Yeh, you'll lose your aol.co.uk email address when you stop paying them.
If you go to Tiscali for instance, you'll get a tiscali.co.uk email address.

Or buy your own domain name and be independent of the lot of them...
most of them offer a webmail facility if you feel the need to have access anywhere.

I'd rather not have Google, Yahoo or Microsoft controlling my emails and contacts.

purplevamp

Thanks for that everyone. I'll look into them and choose the easiest one for me to use :rotfl: .

richt71

You can even get 1 free personalized email address with domain purchases at godaddy.com. You can get a domain for $6.95 a year or £3.70! So you could have joe@joebloggs.com.

marvin

No, unless its changed since I last looked at it, you cannot redirect AOL nor can you successfully use your own domain on them as they do not use POP mail. AOL uses its own system for receiving and sending mail.

TBH using one of the online mail boxes (hotmail, gmail etc etc) is probably as good these days and the spam protection is often better. If there is a mail you want to store loclly just forward it to yourself.

isofa

richt71 wrote: »

You can even get 1 free personalized email address with domain purchases at godaddy.com. You can get a domain for $6.95 a year or £3.70! So you could have [EMAIL="joe@joebloggs.com"]joe@joebloggs.com[/EMAIL].

You can have unlimited e-mail forwarding addresses on domains you purchase from any domain shop, e.g. www.123-reg.co.uk, one-and-one etc.

You pick the domain: e.g. mysurname.co.uk which will be well under £6 for two years, then you can have [EMAIL="anything@mysurname.co.uk"]anything@mysurname.co.uk[/EMAIL] forwarded, think you are probably limited to 100 different addresses at 123-reg, or you can have a "catch all", so any combination in front of the @ can be forwarded to another address.

So you keep you domain, and just switch the details in the forwarding control panel each time you move ISP, for a couple of quid a year, if you want a professional looks address, rather than freebie (gmail, hotmail etc), it's a great option.

ormus

ive used yahoo now for many yrs for just this reason. so no bother when changing isp service.
im on AOL at the moment, and never use my aol email. im not even sure what my user name is.

ssang

Hi! Just a thought, is it safe to use all or part of our names as email addresses, or should we use wacky addresses?

purplevamp

I've now got a hotmail address, so I'll see how this goes. Only trouble is when I sent test emails to my current address it threw it straight in the spam folder!! Does anyone know how not to get this to happen?