E-mail

[dibble1]

I'm signing up for sky, as a result I will end my contract with tiscali.
Will I still be able to get my e-mail from my tiscali address? I hope so it's my only one!

[hc4361]

No.

[sunny-dave]

"only for a short while"

- tiscali/talktalk can (and will) terminate your email account soon after you close your account with them.

[excelsior-1]

on a different note, dibble.
that's a sea-devil you have there ... are you a fan of the doc?

[Prudie]

Just as sunny-d says. It's what's put me off leaving tiscali in the past but quite frankly I've had enough of them and their poor service.

[ChuckFickens]

Stop using your ISP email, setup an account with any of the other free mail providers and then changing ISP doesn't effect you email at all.

I'm liking Microsoft's http://www.outlook.com at the moment.

[hc4361]

Choose a web based email provider - have a look at GMail, Windows Live Hotmail or Yahoo and see which one you prefer.
Sign up, import all your contacts.
Send them all an email with your new address.

Forward all your Tiscali emails to the new email address.

[MarkRae]

I can never understand why anyone would use an email address tied either to their Internet provider or to one of the third-party providers like Hotmail, Google etc when for a couple of quid a year they could have their own domain.

E.g. prudie.me.uk is available for £2.65 per annum

[Prudie]

Is that true MR? I guess the answer is most of us aren't aware.

[MASS1961]

Never had a problem with .hotmail Mark (5 years)
not that I can't afford 2.65

[ChuckFickens]

I totally agree with MR if you are using your email for a business.... for gawd sake buy a domain (I hate seeing business email addresses that are @hotmail.com or the like)

For personal use... one of the larger web based email systems is fine, I don't see the point of a domain based address for one person, it's over the top (even I don't use a domain based system and one of my core skills is mail servers)

[MarkRae]

> Is that true MR?

LOL! Why would I lie?

[spotit3]

Where do you go to find out what is available, MR, as I wasn't aware either. Thanks in advance!

[ChuckFickens]

http://getdotted.com/

But as I said..... in my opinion a domain is over the top for personal use for 95% of people.

[Prudie]

It was more rhetorical (you'd have to hear my inflection)

[MarkRae]

I don't agree with you, CF. A third-party email address is akin to having a postal address of c/o the local chippie...

[MASS1961]

I have hotmail but only for personal use, not business

[MarkRae]

https://secure.hostinguk.net/domains.php

[ChuckFickens]

Agree to disagree then, Mark :)

I don't see anything wrong with an individual using a third party address and I don't think it won't be looked down on at all (unless you are saying you'd reject a CV from me if I sent it from a hotmail address.... if so that's silly!)

I stick to my guns on this, a "third party" email address is fine for an individual (but it really isn't fine for a business!)

[VHG]

>>unless you are saying you'd reject a CV from me if I sent it from a hotmail address

Of course some companies automatically "bin" any email that comes from hotmail due to high levels of spam so he may never get your CV !

The company my daughter works for bins all hotmail mail.

One girl came for an interview and accepted the job and sent a hotmail email saying she accepted the job but the company never got saw it (it went in the spam folder) and the job went to someone else.

When she rang up to complain they looked in their spam folder and found it, but by then it was too late.