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Changing your email address
If you change your email address for any reason, you must take steps to ensure
continued delivery of mail to your new address:
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Before cancelling your old account, send a change of address mail to all regular
correspondents. There are two reasons for this:
Some recipients use the filtering features of their email programs to block
mail from unwanted addresses, and this may include all unknown people.
Write immediately to make sure your mails are not discarded.
Maintaining two email accounts simultaneously, even for a short transitional
period, may be a hassle unless you use an email program that can deal
with several accounts automatically (like Eudora Pro).
Note: If you maintain two email accounts simultaneously, it is very
important to set your client so that all new mail originates from your new
address! So that people can send reply messages to the correct address.
Consider to send the change of address message at three different times:
1. As soon as your new account is operational.
2. A reminder to anyone who sends mail to your old address during the
transition period..
3. At the end of the transition period.
Attach a change of address message to your customized signature file (if you use
one) at the end of all email that you send.
Before you cancel your old account, change your subscription to any automated
mailing lists in accordance with the list's particular instructions.
Use your old account to send the SIGNOFF command to unsubscribe from
the list. This will save you trouble. If it is too late, you may have to write to
the moderator of the list and ask her to sign you off manually.
Use your new account to resubscribe to the mailing list.
Since some of the people who might want to send you email will not receive your
change of address message, make sure that email address directories contain your
new address.
Make sure that all web pages that contain your email address are being updated.
If you are maintaining web pages, and have your email at the bottom of the page,
don't forget that these entries must also be updated.
If you have ever sent a message to a Usenet newsgroup, send another one (to any
newsgroup). This will add your new address to databases being used to find
Internet user addresses.
Changing your email address is bothersome, so some users prefer to hunt for a
permanent email address. The traditional means is to reserve your own domain name.
Once done, your email address can move to whatever Internet server hosts your domain.
A cheaper alternative is provided by mail forwarding services like Pobox and
NetBox. An even greater bargain may be the services providing email for free..
Using two or more mailboxes
Many users have one mailbox for work and one or several mailboses for private use.
Often, these resides on different Internet Service Providers' (ISPs) machines.
Modern email software, like Outlook Express and Eudora, let you automatically
check mail in all mailboxes in one go. All it takes is to dial into the net through one of
your ISPs, and hit "Check new mail." You do not have to dial up each ISP individually.
While this is easy, special attention must be paid to how you send mail. If you set
the properties for your second email account as instructed by your ISP, you risk
receiving error messages saying "Relay not permitted." This happens when an ISP (quite
commonly) refuses to send mail from you if you are logged on to a different ISP. Only
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