New Email Account Required

[mikey4444]

I am now completely and utterly fed up with BT Email ! I have had the same email address for 22 years but its been out of order now for over a week, so I need to replace it with something more reliable ...........if there is such a thing !

Can anybody suggest an email server that they have had good experience with ! ....I would rather not go with Outlook or Gmail.

Also, what is the best way to let everybody know what my new email is please ?

For instance ....can I just send the same email to everyone in my address book ?

[mikey4444]

I have just seen Buenchicos suggest of GMX

[whiskeryron]

gmx is good

[mikey4444]

Thanks Ron ! Even though BT pays my pension, since they began the migration from BT Yahoo to BT Mail, the service has been bloody crap !

And if I ever have to speak to another bright spark in Bangalore, called, somewhat improbably "Kevyn" or "Carol" I shall go MAD !

And those that know me, will realise that there is no racism implied there !

[Jackdaw33]

I've had very few problems with Yahoo mail.

[jno]

I've had no problems with Gmail, but to each his own.

[wolf63]

I've used gmail for years and have had no problem with it.

Virgin Media ia my main account and they supply the broadband. No real problems with them either.

[KARL]

Way back I had a BT address @talk21.com and as a BT subscriber for telephone and internet it was free. Then they announced that they would start charging. I have a similar attitude to e-mail addresses as I do about parking and bank accounts: I do not want to pay if a satisfactory free alternative is available. However, rather like you I suspect, I preferred to keep the address so I did not have to change/notify everyone along the line. Also, I did not like the idea of using the services of international conglomerates with the "freedoms" North American laws, practices and attitudes allow. Then BT "migrated" to Yahoo and by making talk21 an increasingly less attractive option were "encouraging" people to do so with them. So I paid at first but intended to pick the right time to drop BT's e-mail service in favour of something I would see as a long term solution.

The time came when I got the opportunity of tagging onto someone else's server and formed my own addresses for different purposes. My serious beef with BT is that as they deactivated my talk21 addresses they did not do so in a way that any messages sent to them would "bounce". This meant that nobody was alerted to these addresses being invalid and since their messages apparently went out and were successfully delivered they waited for my reaction. This is contrary to what usually happens and I found BT's practice "pants".

Sometime well after this I had such a pain dealing with BT, basically due to their avaricious marketing practices which (at least then) were constantly changing to squeeze ever more pennies out of unsuspecting customers - one had to be really alert to watch the notifications and the small print tucked away within them. In the end I gave up and moved to other providers altogether.

In short, I sympathise with your sentiments both on BT and the "standard" providers. If you are prepared to pay what is not a huge sum annually then you might like to consider startmail.com. Good luck.

[Buenchico]

I see that you've already found my suggestion of GMX. (It's on dozens of AB threads!)

As long as your BT address remains active you can use the 'mail collector' facility in GMX to get mail sent to your old address automatically forwarded to your new one, so you wouldn't need to worry if a few people take time to remember that you've changed your address.

As you've suggested, sending an email message to everyone in your BT address book would be the easiest way of notifying them of the change.