Change Email Address FAQs

How do I change my email address, can I keep my old email address, how do I change email provider and keep my email address. These are amongst some of the most common questions I get asked.

So here I will discuss email addresses and the problems that arise when trying to change them.

• How do I change email address
• How do I change email provider and keep existing email address.
• Change MSN email Address
• Change Yahoo Email Address
• How to change email address name
• Change email address password.

How do I Change Email Address

 Getting anew email address is simplicity itself. All you need to do is register with many of the thousands of email providers. The problem arises with the old email address and the emails that are still being sent to it.

There is a procedure you can adopt that will

• Change of email address notification-Email all of you contacts and notify them of the new email address.
• Arrange for email to your old address to be automatically forwarded to the new email address for a suitable period (3-6 months) before expiring the old address.
   If your old email provider doesn't provide this facility then there  are a number of companies like email-forwarding.biz or return path that will pick up email from various accounts and forward them to the new address.
• Monitor your email over the months and see who is still using the old address and notify them again. You may want to consider a message rule that flags the message perhaps by highlighting them with a different colour.
• Register at an email registry service like findemail and return path. Where you enter the old and the new addresses and some search details so people can locate you.
• Register yourself at any of the friend reunited related websites (see below in finding email addresses).
• Get yourself your own personal email address so that you don't have to worry about this again in a years time.

 How do I Change Email Provider and keep Existing Email Address?

The only way of doing this is by maintaining your old account. Depending on your account provider it may be possible to do this at very little cost.

I have retained my old email addresses from an ISP dial up account because they offered a pay as you go type option in which I pay per minute when I use it. I never dial it and so it doesn't cost anything and I can still access my old email mailboxes.

This is however a temporary situation only and you need to take steps to move to the new email address.

Change MSN email Address

The procedure is the same as for changing any email address

Change Yahoo Email Address

The procedure is the same as for changing any email address

How to Change Email Address Name

This is the name that appears in the from field when you receive an email. To change the name you go to the account properties and it should look something like the screenshot below. The name field is what you need to change (steve in the screenshot below).

Change Email Address Password

What people usually mean here is the password they use to access there email from Yahoo or MSN using the web interface. This is usually available under you account properties when you logon to the web interface.

The problem that most seem to have is that they forget that if they are using outlook express/Incredimail or any other client to access their MSN hotmail account or yahoo account then they also need to change it there as well for details see: Outlook Express Email Setup and Setup IncrediMail Email

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