So, let’s say I’ve been a customer of Big Nasty Corporation for years, and my email is associated with their system. myname@bnc.com Let’s say they’ve pissed me off once too often, and I want to go to, say, gmail.
Is there a way to keep myname@bnc.com even if I cancel my account with bnc? Are there forwarders that will forward this to myname@gmail.com, so I don’t have to go to the hassle of telling all my friends to change?
(Is it free, or does it cost?) Any experience?
Big Nasty Corp owns bnc.com, and controls the name servers and mail servers associated with that domain, so no. Your best bet is to keep the bnc.com account for a transition period of a few months. During that time, you can have bnc.com forward your mail to gmail while you notify all your friends, colleagues, online accounts, etc of your new email address. Only then can you dump the old account.
I was afraid that was the case. Otherwise, someone would have to “intercept” the incoming mail before it got to bnc. But, in the information age, anything might be possible.
I’ll follow your advice, and keep my bnc account for a while. Thank’ee!
My parents switched from Time-Warner Cincinnati to Time-Warner Northern Kentucky (approximately 30 miles away). Even though it’s the same company, they each had unique mail servers and they were given 30 days to notify their contacts of the new account.