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well after 20 years of an ntlworld email address i am moving my email world to gmail.
looking at retiring in about a year and going "mobile" with the wife.

quite daunting when its banks and pensions and all sorts
 
Mr Bump said:
well after 20 years of an ntlworld email address i am moving my email world to gmail.
looking at retiring in about a year and going "mobile" with the wife.

quite daunting when its banks and pensions and all sorts
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FWIW
I have normal email on my mobile phone................actually I have three email addresses that come to my phone ;) So whether on WiFi or mobile data I get emails :)
NB this just needs a mobile (Android) email client and setup up like my Outlook account(s) as appropriate.
 
Box Brownie said:
FWIW
I have normal email on my mobile phone................actually I have three email addresses that come to my phone ;) So whether on WiFi or mobile data I get emails :)
NB this just needs a mobile (Android) email client and setup up like my Outlook account(s) as appropriate.
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yep the address i have chosen is my mobile phone gmail which i have had for a good 10 years i think and it has proven ok.
i also use thunderbird as my IMAP client and that so far is synching up nicely.

the thing i need to do now is setup a solid recovery account option.
 
4wd said:
You could buy a domain name with unlimited email addresses for not a lot, it is nice to be independent of all of them.
I did this about 20 years ago but gmail is sound choice and easy to set up.
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gmail works nicely until you discover that sometimes it doesn't. I found that it disappeared some business clients emails randomly. Not spam but full on disappeared for no obvious reason. That was when I used gmail as alias for business account. I only work directly with the server now and there are no such issues. Gmail is OK for all subscription crap.
 
4wd said:
You could buy a domain name with unlimited email addresses for not a lot, it is nice to be independent of all of them.
I did this about 20 years ago but gmail is sound choice and easy to set up.
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I did the same almost as long ago. It does help having a very rare surname so no-one else was going to want it.
 
If you’re going to the trouble of moving stuff to a new address then it may be worth setting up multiple addresses to migrate to - use different addresses for different purposes. I have 3 that I use - one for “friends and family”, one for associating with “trusted” organisations for either contact or or login details and then one for stuff that if it did get compromised then there’s nothing “sensitive” that could be accessed. I’ve thought about creating a couple more to spread the risk - maybe one day…..
 
LongLensPhotography said:
gmail works nicely until you discover that sometimes it doesn't. I found that it disappeared some business clients emails randomly. Not spam but full on disappeared for no obvious reason. That was when I used gmail as alias for business account. I only work directly with the server now and there are no such issues. Gmail is OK for all subscription crap.
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Yes. I had an incident where the mail box filled up and it didn't tell me on the Android client. It just silently rejected all incoming mail. When I logged into the web UI it gave me a warning but that was several days later.
 
Mr Bump said:
yep the address i have chosen is my mobile phone gmail which i have had for a good 10 years i think and it has proven ok.
i also use thunderbird as my IMAP client and that so far is synching up nicely.

the thing i need to do now is setup a solid recovery account option.
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I don‘t know if it’s possible with ntlworld (used to have one years ago, amazing it still exists!) but on some you can set to forward mail to your gmail address and/or gmail can be set to collect from ntlworld.

Though of course you can still collect from ntlworld in Thuderbird (or whatever) to make sure you don’t miss any.
 
sphexx said:
I don‘t know if it’s possible with ntlworld (used to have one years ago, amazing it still exists!) but on some you can set to forward mail to your gmail address and/or gmail can be set to collect from ntlworld.

Though of course you can still collect from ntlworld in Thuderbird (or whatever) to make sure you don’t miss any.
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I do that all the time I have 3 NTL world addresses all of which forward to one Gmail address, but it depends if you are staying with virgin.
 
troutfisher said:
I do that all the time I have 3 NTL world addresses all of which forward to one Gmail address, but it depends if you are staying with virgin.
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nope my plan is to vacate the UK entirely approx April 2023
i am moving all my access to the gmail email well in advance so i can get it all ironed out :)
i also use thunderbiard and it is very good.
 
troutfisher said:
I do that all the time I have 3 NTL world addresses all of which forward to one Gmail address, but it depends if you are staying with virgin.
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Yes, I think they nuke the email account 90 days after you leave Virgin, which will kill forwarding.
 
As others have said, having your own domain means that you are not beholden to any provider and any future move can be invisible.

Another advantage is that you can create throwaway addresses, like when you need to give your address somewhere, eg "talkphotography@mydomain.com" then - if that gets sold to a spammer you can simply redirect all mail to that address into the bin.

A disadvantage of your own domain is that you may find yourself blacklisted, or possibly worse not white listed, resulting in random email receipt failure. I am currently experiencing just that, users in a major corporation can't send me mail.
 
Ham said:
Another advantage is that you can create throwaway addresses, like when you need to give your address somewhere
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As you can also do with Apple’s iCloud’s “hide my email”.
 
Ham said:
A disadvantage of your own domain is that you may find yourself blacklisted, or possibly worse not white listed, resulting in random email receipt failure. I am currently experiencing just that, users in a major corporation can't send me mail.
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Mailjet smtp helps with that. Yahoo is sometimes an issue, but to be honest even Gmail has issues sending to them.
 
Ham said:
As others have said, having your own domain means that you are not beholden to any provider and any future move can be invisible.

Another advantage is that you can create throwaway addresses, like when you need to give your address somewhere, eg "talkphotography@mydomain.com" then - if that gets sold to a spammer you can simply redirect all mail to that address into the bin.

A disadvantage of your own domain is that you may find yourself blacklisted, or possibly worse not white listed, resulting in random email receipt failure. I am currently experiencing just that, users in a major corporation can't send me mail.
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thanks but i intend to retire, growing chillis, fishing and riding my bike not getting meassured for a tin hat :-)
 
Ham said:
As others have said, having your own domain means that you are not beholden to any provider and any future move can be invisible.

Another advantage is that you can create throwaway addresses, like when you need to give your address somewhere, eg "talkphotography@mydomain.com" then - if that gets sold to a spammer you can simply redirect all mail to that address into the bin.

A disadvantage of your own domain is that you may find yourself blacklisted, or possibly worse not white listed, resulting in random email receipt failure. I am currently experiencing just that, users in a major corporation can't send me mail.
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I do that. I run both MX records for the domain myself in debian VMs on separate routeable IPv4 addresses, no RFC 1918 here, and use my ISP's smarthost for outgoing email as they don't mind what From: address I send from, as long as I have permission to use it. I've had no problems with either getting mail from me delivered or receiving mail. It's worked well so far.


It was a major effort when I lost my Demon internet address a couple of years ago because Vodafone withdrew the delegation and I had to change 25 years worth of accounts that were tied to it.
 
Ham said:
As others have said, having your own domain means that you are not beholden to any provider and any future move can be invisible.

Another advantage is that you can create throwaway addresses, like when you need to give your address somewhere, eg "talkphotography@mydomain.com" then - if that gets sold to a spammer you can simply redirect all mail to that address into the bin.

A disadvantage of your own domain is that you may find yourself blacklisted, or possibly worse not white listed, resulting in random email receipt failure. I am currently experiencing just that, users in a major corporation can't send me mail.
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i thought blacklisting is for mail you *send* rather than receive
 
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