How to Change Your Email Address - Comments Page 1
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I want to keep my address the same (******@gmail.com) but change the name of the sender as seen by the recipient (From:xxx rather than From:yyy). Gmail seems to have every change available except this one. |
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Why not just get a second email address and keep the old one too? Easy enough to do and then you won't need to go through all the trouble of contacting anyone other than those you want to change. |
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Bob, |
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Why change an e-mail address? Easier to just start a new one, add it to your e-mail client and receive all your e-mails to either address. I've kept all my older e-mail addresses open, and still receive e-mails from people I've not heard from in years. Makes more sense to keep an e-mail client and change e-mail adresses whenever you like. By the way, remember to warn readers of the big bug in the Gmail spam filter - the one that shunts perfectly valid (and sometimes important) emails into spam - so you need to read the spam box regularly to ensure the good emails are not deleted (defeats the object of spam filters, right?). And yes, it's happened to me several times. And no, you cannot turn off their spam filters. And yes, gmail know about this. |
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I use both Pegasus and Thunderbird to manage gmail and regular accounts. I would be interested in your take on that approach. |
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have you heard of bigfoot.com? You can use this in parallel to what you say in you article. |
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Very good article. Here are some additional points I'd like to add. 1. Be sure to use the BCC line (vs the TO and CC lines) when sending the change-of-address e-mails to avoid the security/privacy issues of broadcasting the contents of your address book to all recipients. 2. In the text of the change-of-address e-mail, be sure to include both the old address and the new address. This is helpful to help recipients find your entry in their address books to make the change. 3. Send the change-of-address e-mails from both your old account and your new account. This will increase the probability of all recipients receiving the notice (at the price of many recipients receiving the notice twice). The reason for this is to get around privacy measures your recipients may have in place, e.g., sending to trash any e-mail coming from someone not in the recipient's address book, or an intended recipient having blocked (accidently, I hope) your old e-mail address. 4. The option of forwarding from the old account to the new address is not available if/once the account associated with the old address is cancelled, e.g., change of ISPs). |
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Yahoo's Customer Service might be a better reason to migrate to another service. |
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Thank you for this very relevant discussion thread. |
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When Yahoo's Customer Service seems to have a default of keeping you on line for 5 minutes as they tell you how busy they are (THIS should have been the clue) then automatically hangs up on you, it's time to SERIOUSLY consider G-mail (even after 25+ years with Yahoo - paid or not, there's no difference in service - never was, isn't now, not looking promising) |
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Moving or copying your mail from one mail service to another is easily done with an IMAP account/connection on the destination server and the source as another account/connection in Outlook or Thunderbird or other similar program. Just drag (or right-drag) the messages or folders from source to destination. Folders usually have to be done on at a time. |
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Over the years I've purchased an number of domain names, either for business reasons or just because I came up with an interesting name which I wanted to grab. They're pretty cheap with a domain registrar such as Godaddy. Then from Godaddy I set up email forwarding such that any email sent to me at that domain name will be forwarded to my Gmail account. (Make sure to include the catch-all forwarding feature so that The result of all this is that I can give out different email addresses for different purposes (e.g., select which one will sound most impressive or appropriate to a particular recipient). It doesn't matter which address they have for me, since they all funnel back to my Gmail account. This also makes me independent of my email provider. I love Gmail, but if a problem developed with it I could abandon it tomorrow for Hotmail or Yahoo or anybody else and not miss a beat, just by changing my email forwarding addresses at Godaddy. Also, if one of my email addresses gets on too many spam lists, I can shift to another address and either ignore the first one or shut it down altogether. It also means that I can gradually shift from one address to another, and take my time updating subscriptions and financial institutions, etc., because the old one will still work. It's much easier to update an email address if you do so over a period of months, as you see emails come in from infrequent sources, rather than try to change everything at once and inevitably miss a few. |
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"...or move away from a desktop email program, to a more flexibile [sic] web-based email service like Gmail or Yahoo." There is nothing more flexible than a desktop email program that can be used off-line - or when your umbilical cord to the net is broken. Apart from that, when I have a problem with hotels, etc., which sometimes restrict email sending due to their security settings, I can also access my email through the web, either through my provider or by using MailtoWeb.com. ***** |
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@ KRS ~ Hira |
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Be careful of posting instructions how to change from your Yahoo e-mail address on a Yahoo forum. You may get banned or loose points. |
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thank you! |
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When changing from one web-based email account to another I believe it's a good idea not to close the old one right away. |
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For the life of me, I simply cannot imagine why anyone would EVER use their name in their e-mail address? How on earth could anyone be so stupid?? |
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I'm continualy amazed by the people you send the heads up email on address changes to. Many continue to keep sending email to your old address and then get bent out of shape when you don't respond to their 'URGENT' requests. I swear I've sent out 2 or 3 emails to these straglers and tell them in person I've changed my email address. Can't lead some horses to water.... |
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I've been using Gmail for years and like the fact that I can send from different email addresses I own eg, my business address. It's a very good program. |
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