FAO Pimmo2000
18 September 2007, 10:59 PM
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Hello,
I'm currently with Virgin Media, but my email address's are still with blueyonder.co.uk.
I'm about to emigrate to Canada, wanted to keep my email address's going but I've been told that because they are through blueyonder.co.uk I have to keep my broadband account at £10 a month to keep them (pity the people buying my house are going to struggle to get broadband when I've got an active account still supplying it
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So do you know of any way I could keep the email address's without having to keep a broadband package?, I don't mind paying...otherwise I'll be swapping over to a gmail/hotmail account and ditching Virgin completley as soon as I've informed everyone and changed all my contact details at 101 forums.
Thanks for any help
Cheers
Dan
I'm currently with Virgin Media, but my email address's are still with blueyonder.co.uk.
I'm about to emigrate to Canada, wanted to keep my email address's going but I've been told that because they are through blueyonder.co.uk I have to keep my broadband account at £10 a month to keep them (pity the people buying my house are going to struggle to get broadband when I've got an active account still supplying it
)So do you know of any way I could keep the email address's without having to keep a broadband package?, I don't mind paying...otherwise I'll be swapping over to a gmail/hotmail account and ditching Virgin completley as soon as I've informed everyone and changed all my contact details at 101 forums.
Thanks for any help
Cheers
Dan
19 September 2007, 01:30 PM
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The easiest way to do it would be to find someone you trust with a VM account and have them host it for you.
All you need to is create a mail box on there account.. they can have 4 or 5 I forget, delete the username from yours and create it on theres.
If you are using the original email this makes it harder, you would need to find someone who never uses there VM email and get the tech support to do a move and transfer, you would need yourself and them there but it would only be possible after your account has been closed.
Other than that, there is no way to do it......
Unless you sign up for a dial up account, but I think you need an active phone line to do that. Bit ****.. sorry I couldnt help.
All you need to is create a mail box on there account.. they can have 4 or 5 I forget, delete the username from yours and create it on theres.
If you are using the original email this makes it harder, you would need to find someone who never uses there VM email and get the tech support to do a move and transfer, you would need yourself and them there but it would only be possible after your account has been closed.
Other than that, there is no way to do it......
Unless you sign up for a dial up account, but I think you need an active phone line to do that. Bit ****.. sorry I couldnt help.
19 September 2007, 04:07 PM
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The easiest way to do it would be to find someone you trust with a VM account and have them host it for you.
All you need to is create a mail box on there account.. they can have 4 or 5 I forget, delete the username from yours and create it on theres.
If you are using the original email this makes it harder, you would need to find someone who never uses there VM email and get the tech support to do a move and transfer, you would need yourself and them there but it would only be possible after your account has been closed.
Other than that, there is no way to do it......
Unless you sign up for a dial up account, but I think you need an active phone line to do that. Bit ****.. sorry I couldnt help.
All you need to is create a mail box on there account.. they can have 4 or 5 I forget, delete the username from yours and create it on theres.
If you are using the original email this makes it harder, you would need to find someone who never uses there VM email and get the tech support to do a move and transfer, you would need yourself and them there but it would only be possible after your account has been closed.
Other than that, there is no way to do it......
Unless you sign up for a dial up account, but I think you need an active phone line to do that. Bit ****.. sorry I couldnt help.
I'll start moving the stuff over
Cheers
Dan
19 September 2007, 04:18 PM
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One suggestion for you. Once you have setup your new account, and I'd recommed gmail rather than hotmail (mainly as, being a mac user who is using Apple's mail app, you can't get Mail.app to use your hotmail account without purchasing a hotmail subscription thing, whereas it's free with gmail), send out an email to all your contacts, or at least those you want to notify of your new address, and specify a different-reply to address, which you set to your gmail account.
What this means is that if anyone replies to this latest new message, it'll actually be sent to your gmail account rather than your blueyonder one.
What this means is that if anyone replies to this latest new message, it'll actually be sent to your gmail account rather than your blueyonder one.