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Stop having wrong email addresses

Page history last edited by Justin Spratt 12 years, 8 months ago

Or, How to unify your email accounts with Gmail


 

Do people often accidentally send email to an address that you rarely check?  Do you find that you are constantly switching back and forth between your work, college, and personal email accounts?  Did your college email account just expire because you graduated?  There is a simple, free solution that is easy to setup, and this document describes exactly how to do so.

 

One account to rule them all


The first step in simplifying your email experience is to sign up for a free Gmail account.  My document Switching to Gmail describes this process, although this does not necessarily constitute a switch, i.e., you retain your old addresses and your ability to send and receive email from them. 

 

     Gmail accounts, unlike internet provider accounts (the accounts you receive when you sign up for an internet connection), college accounts, or work accounts, are about as permanent as anything on the Internet can be.  You will loose your Internet service provider (ISP) email account when you switch providers (e.g., by moving to an area where your old provider is not available).  You will lose your college student email address when you graduate.  You will loose your work email address when you change jobs.  And unlike snail mail, email sent to an expired address goes nowhere; as a rule, it does NOT get forwarded to your new address.

 

What if you have a shared email account as your primary address?


No problem.  If, for example, you and your spouse have jack_and_jill@our_internet_provider.com, you can forward that address or receive it with POP on jack@gmail.com and on jill@gmail.com (as described in Switching to Gmail) while leaving the original messages on jack_and_jill@our_internet_provider.com.  This way, you won't run into the problems associated with only having an ISP email address.

 

 


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