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an in-process, non-comprehensive treatise Were you forced to change your primary e-mail address because your ISP changed, e.g. ATTBI became Comcast, Comcast became Time Warner, Adelphia became Time Warner or because you just changed your ISP. If you answered affirmatively, you had to notify your correspondents of your e-mail address change. In addition you may have had to change mail list subscription addresses, business cards, stationery, etc. This can be a daunting task. By getting a permanent primary e-mail address, you can make this change your last! To minimize having this address from getting spammed, it is strongly recommended that you limit its use to those you trust and utilize different addresses for all others. The remainder of this page is divided into two sections:
1. E-mail Forwarding - E-mail sent to a such an address will be forwarded to the e-mail address of your choice. When you change the latter address it will be transparent to those you correspond with, so you'll never have to send another e-mail change of address notice. Many schools, professional organizations, and other organizations offer their alumni or members such a forwarding service; some (many?) include spam identifying and virus filtering. Following are some:
Local
Schools: (Cal
Poly) (CSU
Northridge) (Cal
Tech) (Harvey
Mudd)
Professional Organizations: (ACM) (IEEE) Radio Amateur: (ARRL) There are services which will poll your old e-mail address periodically and forward messages to your new address; two such services are (ReturnPath) and (VersaForward Service). Of course you'll have to keep the former account open which adds to your costs. Another vehicle for e-mail forwarding is to get a personal domain. Before domain registration was opened to competition, the annual fee for the popular top level domain names, e.g. .com, .net, .org, was $35.00; now a fee of under $10.00 is common. (1and1) and (Go Daddy) are two such registrars. Both include e-mail address forwarding for at least 100 e-mail addresses at your domain in their registration fee. For information on setting
up a personal domain registered at Go Daddy, (click here).
2. Non-ISP Mail Boxes - There are many providers of mail boxes with features ranging from few to many. Fees range from free to several dollars a year. Some are: 3. Other - Both AOL and Microsoft are offering free services which include personal domain registration: AOL: (My eAddress 1) (My eAddress 2) Microsoft: (Office Live Basics) Before signing up for any
of these services, you should check who owns/controls the domain name if
you decide to drop the program so that you can use a different hosting
arrangement, a different registrar, etc.
1) Have your domain forward mail sent to: permanent_address@mydomain.com to go to: a_mailbox@myisp.com 2) Configure your mail client
mail box settings as follows:
No attempt is made here to
talk about Port selection, authentication settings, and
Thunderbird (Netscape 7.2 is similar)
Outlook Express
Outlook
Launch Outlook and click on Tools | E-mail Accounts | E-mail (View or change existing E-mail Accounts. Select an account and click on Change. On this menu you enter all the settings for this account. - User Information - This section is where you enter the From: information which appears at the top of messages you send from your Permanent Address. This information does not change if you change your ISP. - Server Information &
Logon Information - If you change your ISP, any entry which ends in
@mydomain.com must be changed to reflect your new ISP.
Q: Why register a domain at (Go Daddy) when (1 and 1) is cheaper? A: If you wish to set up a web page using the web space most ISPs give their subscribers, you won't be able to use your domain name registered with 1and1 because of the constraint they impose on URL forwarding, but you will with Go Daddy. Both registrars offer a simple web page for your domain with advertising. Rollingripple.com, the domain
name for this web page, was registered at Go Daddy. This page was
composed using Netscape Composer 4.8 and is currently hosted on Personal
Web Space at (DSL Extreme).
1. Forward Email Messages to Another Account - This is the most commonly used feature. Enter information only in the following two data boxes - ignor all others. In the first box enter the username you desire and use the down arrow to select your domain:
Enter the email address where
messages sent to the preceding email address will be sent:
You can forward email to one or more email addresses by entering the addresses, separated by commas; the maximum length of this field is 149 characters. 2. Catch-all Email Account - A catch-all email account will receive all messages that are sent to any undefined email address with your domain name, e.g. unknown@YourPersonalDomainName.com.
Some users may not want to set up a catch-all account. 3. Email Auto-Responder - If you're on vacation or expect to be unable to answer email for a period of time, you may want to set an auto-responder to your email account. While the auto-responder is set, the text you enter will automatically be sent to anyone who sends email to you. You will not lose any email - it will still all be delivered to you. Auto-responder Messages are limited to 1000 characters.
NOTE: Use this feature with care. Do not use it for addresses used to receive mail list messages since the auto-responder message will be sent out each time you receive a mail list message.
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Launch
Thunderbird and click on Tools | Account Settings.
If
you change your ISP, any entry which ends in @mydomain.com must be changed
to reflect your new ISP.
If
you change your ISP, any entry which ends in @mydomain.com must be changed
to reflect your new ISP.
Launch
Outlook Express and click on Tools | Accounts | Mail. Select
an account or create a new one and click on Properties.
If
you change your ISP, any entry which ends in @mydomain.com must be changed
to reflect your new ISP.
Address
Forwarding - Go to GoDaddy's (
Click
on the "Setup Account" link. Following is information on some of
the setup items:
