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RomaniaExpress
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Reg'd: Sat
Posts: 3
Loc: Wales
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I am contemplating a change of ISP and upgrading to Broadband. What will happen to the emailaddresses on my current ISP? Could I still use them after the change? If so what do I need to do to maintain the use of these addresses? It`s not financially viable to stay with my current provider.
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RobDickson
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Reg'd: Tue
Posts: 1659
Loc: Slough, UK
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It depends on what you have at the moment.
If you have a PAYG dial-up connection, then you should be able to receive e-mails from your existing account through your new broadband connection. You probably won't be able to send e-mail using your old accounts through your new broadband connection.
If you are on a pay-monthly tariff, and can downgrade to PAYG, then the same will apply.
However, if you're on a pay-monthly tariff and your existing ISP won't downgrade the account, then you will lose those e-mail addresses if you stop paying the monthly tariff.
There's a lot to be said for owning your own e-mail addresses by registering a domain (about £10 for 2 years with www.freeparking.co.uk).
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RomaniaExpress
new user
Reg'd: Sat
Posts: 3
Loc: Wales
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Thanks Rob. Think I`ll sever all ties. Notify all I need to of address changes and begin a new life with Broadband.
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RobDickson
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Reg'd: Tue
Posts: 1659
Loc: Slough, UK
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If I were you, I would register my own domain name, so that if you change ISP again in the future, you won't need to tell people about new e-mail addresses. Well worth £5/year in my book.
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RichieP
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I was using Freeserve until about a year ago but can still access my Freeserve email account so do you really need to do that?
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RobDickson
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Reg'd: Tue
Posts: 1659
Loc: Slough, UK
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RomanianExpress wants to sever all ties with his existing ISP (presumably it won't let him downgrade to PAYG), so he therefore will lose his e-mail addresses.
If you can still access your Freeserve e-mail address, then you're lucky. I assume that you don't still pay a monthly fee to Freeserve, so you must be on a PAYG tariff. Freeserve's policy states that a PAYG user who doesn't dial-up the Freeserve servers regulary will have his/her account closed.
Registering a domain name will guarantee that whatever your ISP does, you will always have the same e-mail addresses.
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dancer69
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Reg'd: Wed
Posts: 41
Loc: Bath, UK
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Some dial-up PAYG ISPs require regular dial-up to maintain an account.
Not a real problem if you program it into a scheduler on your system.
So, if your ISP has a dial-up service, dial-up within their T&C period to maintain it.
But, be warned, some ISPs have started restricting outbound e-mail to their own e-mail servers. This is to prevent you using third party e-mail servers to send mail whilst connected to themselves.
This is a real pain when you use several ISPs.
The only problem ISP I have is Wanadoo, but I expect that there maybe others.
I have not yet found an e-mail server that can be configured to use a different SMTP outbound address when I am connected to a different ISP.
e.g.
connected to ISP xxx SMTP uses www.xxx123.net
connected to ISP yyy SMTP uses www.yyy567.org
If anybody knows of an e-mail program that gets around re-configuring for each ISP dial-up, please post it here.
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