best way to change my email address?

[Poritz]

I searched the forum and googled the web for a free service to intercept messages to my old address and send them a reply that my address has changed. Does this exist? Does anything other than freshaddress.com exist? I am not really interested in emailing everyone one my lists. I thought that I had heard of something like this before? Anyway just curious.

-Poritz

 

[dabuddha]

Do you still have your old email address or has it been deleted?

 

[FeathersMcGraw]

Originally posted by: Poritz
I searched the forum and googled the web for a free service to intercept messages to my old address and send them a reply that my address has changed. Does this exist? Does anything other than freshaddress.com exist?

I don't know of one, and I'd be very doubtful that there is one, since to provide seamless rerouting of email, it would have to filter mail on every mail server on the Internet. Your best bet is to start moving your email to a redirect address (such as Pobox) so that if you ever switch email addresses, you change the redirect, not the address itself.

Freshaddress seems to be an email notification service rather than a redirector. I've seen a few other services like this, but they're only effective if the sender knows to check them.

 

[Poritz]

thanks for the tips

Poritz

 

[ChefJoe]

Yeah, what is the old address ? Is it a hotmail type freebie, a school address, a isp address, or a pay for ? What domain are we talking about transferring ? The redirect is the best way to do it, but you can help yourself by making a signature with "be sure to e-mail me at ___ instead of ___ ", replying to those you can reply to, and ultimately easing the transition. My dad long ago bought a domain and controls the e-mail addresses. He didn't pay for actual e-mail server type of setup so it's just a redirect. I've been using that for years, but someone has to pay for it (usu.)