Changing My Email Address...

[rrchamp]

I will be changing my email address for the first time since I first got one back in the nineties. I've searched the forum but have not found any guidance about how best to manage that process.

I'm sure many of you have gone thru this so that someone can give me some "do's and don'ts" gleaned from the school of hard knocks. Some of my questions are:

• Should I have one email address for business and another for personal?
• Should I have a third address that I enter on websites etc.?
• What is the easiest way to let people know your new address?
• What do I do about all the online sites, such as Amazon, that now have what will be my old address.
• Whatever else I haven't considered...

 

[Diane Ross]

I will be changing my email address for the first time since I first got one
back in the nineties. I've searched the forum but have not found any guidance
about how best to manage that process.

Well, this forum is about _using_ the software, but we've all been through
this so I'm sure many will have suggestions.

I'm sure many of you have gone thru this so that someone can give me some
"do's and don'ts" gleaned from the school of hard knocks. Some of my questions
are:

• Should I have one email address for business and another for personal?

Sounds like a good idea. I have lots of addresses. Probably too many.

• Should I have a third address that I enter on websites etc.?

Also a good idea to have a throw away address when it starts collecting
spam. Some people use multiple addresses so they will know who sold their
info. A good site for protecting your email address from spam:

http://www.cdt.org/speech/spam/030319spamreport.shtml

• What is the easiest way to let people know your new address?

Create a group and send out an announcement. Break the group into block of
50 or use the script Split Recipients X. Add your new email to your sig is
also a good way to let people know.

Split Recipients X will replicate messages into the number of copies needed
to comply with an ISP's maximum number of recipients allowed per outgoing
message.

• What do I do about all the online sites, such as Amazon, that now have what
will be my old address.

You have to change them yourself.

• Whatever else I haven't considered...

Your ISP should offer you forwarding of up to one year. Most do for no cost,
but someone said EarthLink did nothing. I would consider that for your
transition period.

In the mean time, you could set up a Gmail account and use it for
notifications. Gmail can forward your emails from other accounts so you
could have multiple addresses all being sent to you from Gmail.

One of the beauties of accounts like Gmail, Hotmail, .Mac is that no matter
where you go your email stays the same.