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| Thread ID: 30867 | 2003-03-05 08:39:00 | email address redirect? | beetle (243) | Press F1 |
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| 125729 | 2003-03-05 08:39:00 | hi me again, (LOL) we (hubby & me) are soon to be going into business, (taking over one) and it has a email address that is used in advertising etc what i want to no is at the moment it is with another ISP if we decide not to change our ISP, is there a way that we can still use this email address? can you redirect something like that or is it easier to change ISP ? this is a business email address, an very important for everything to do with this business. or can we take that address and ours (personal) an put it on one ISP ? is an email address yours to keep forever? this sounds a bit confusing but when it was explained to me i got lost! dunno now mind boggles at this one.. anybody help! thanxs Beetle |
beetle (243) | ||
| 125730 | 2003-03-05 08:43:00 | Does the business have a domain name registered? (that means the part after the @ would not be an ISP name such as xtra, paradise etc, but a name associated with the business. If this is the case, it can be "hosted" by any ISP I have my own domain name, and therefore I can change to another ISP withour changing my e-mail address. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 125731 | 2003-03-05 09:43:00 | no i dont think it has this domain thing i have a feeling it with someone like clear.net or something like that so i take it that mean no, probably easier to change our address then, or have 2 seperate ISP's one for work one for home? cost to much id say. but ill check again, as i am a student and if we change to that ISP we will have to pay for access when we use phone line for the net, calls etc ill have think on that one thank you godfather beetle |
beetle (243) | ||
| 125732 | 2003-03-05 10:10:00 | Well you would probably want to keep your work and personal emails separate anyway. | -=JM=- (16) | ||
| 125733 | 2003-03-05 15:00:00 | Check the web mail access of the ISP. Often they allow redirection. I have a permanent redirection on an "@xtra.co.nz" address to my domain name address. | godfather (25) | ||
| 125734 | 2003-03-05 23:15:00 | this redirection does it cost? there would be a catch or cost? in october new addvertising comes out so we could change the emails by then, just the people with the old address would need redirecting then nothing is easy, and were you up at 4 am? to post this? makes me think most people dont sleep, computer people anyway. thank you beetle |
beetle (243) | ||
| 125735 | 2003-03-05 23:36:00 | The business email address is the important thing here at the moment, you have to keep this active so that means keeping that ISP account active. If you close the account they may set up a forwarding for the address but there is usually a cost for this so you would have to compare your ISP cost plus the cost of forwarding from the other ISP with the cost of closing your ISP and having the other ISP with both email addresses Before OCT I would seriously look at getting a Domain Name which can reflect your business name and then if you change ISP's you take the name with you. You can then have the domain name with one ISP if you want and your connection and email with another. You can of couse have one ISP for them both. The email that gets sent to your domain name eg something@business.co.nz has mail rules applied to it so it can then be pointed to any ISP email address for downloading. |
Jim B (153) | ||
| 125736 | 2003-03-06 00:10:00 | oh ok hadnt thought of it like that, will look into it a bit further, how do you or who do you contact for that domain thing? the business one is most important of course, must remember this and explain to hubby, thanxs everybody, beetle |
beetle (243) | ||
| 125737 | 2003-03-06 00:34:00 | Contact any ISP for info about Domain names The cost is usually about $40 per year plus a one off setup fee. A Domain Name allows anything to be put front of your domain email address and it will be delivered to you.eg help@domain info@domain bob@domain etc It can also be set up so specific domain email addresses are sent to different ISP email addresses for downloading. |
Jim B (153) | ||
| 125738 | 2003-03-06 01:01:00 | beetle, Unless you state the ISPs involved, this question reads like: "How long is a piece of string?" An address at orcon for example can be redirected to any other address you like, at no charge. An address at say xtra, probably can't, unless for a price :) Ultimatly i would consider this only a quick fix and would register a domain to represent your biz. It makes it a little easyer to be taken seriously. I use register direct, (http://www.registerdirect.net.nz/) as they have a free email storage & handling thing built in with the registration. It's very simple and reliable .Clueless |
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