[NTLUG:Discuss] Advice on email account

Mon Jan 17 08:50:42 CST 2011

Hank-

/a/ When you give up your old ISP account it's gone.  A few ISPs offer a
month or two of mail forwarding but that's it.  So you need to open the new
account, get everyone using it and then cut-over when the volume to the old
account drops off.  It will cost you a few months of duplicate fees.  Sorry.
You can't port your @rr.tx.com email like you can port a cell phone #.

/b/ You can buy your own domain and have all the mail forwarded from it to
your Yahoo/Gmail/et al account (I think it costs me $8 a year for the domain
and $20/year (quarter) for the hosting).  As long as you do your sending
through your domain, people won't know how the mail was processed. And as
long as your account isn't unprofessional, it's not a big deal to slip up
now & then. It's not unusual in these days to have multiple email accounts.
I have six routine addresses (5 accounts) (gmail, two @ my domain, work +
work-alias and client) with everything else @domain going to my gmail
account.

Or you could use the gmail/yahoo account as your sole account once you
transition.  There are some risks: Mike's comment is interesting - when I
scan resumes, I don't make assumptions - I use gmail myself as an alternate
address and I have my domain forwarded to it for the spam filtering.  But as
an employee of a large organization, I would not put ANYTHING past HR -
simple rules evolve to deal with the flood of inappropriate resumes
submitted for each job posting.

A gmail... account is an inexpensive way of not using the current job email
to search for the new job.  Never-the-less, from me, FirstLast at gmail.com is
more likely to get serious consideration than StudDog38 at gmail.com - if for
nothing else than it tells me you were the 39th person to call yourself
StudDog and that's not the level of professionalism, creativity and adult
behavior I'm looking for.

-----Burton

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From: discuss-bounces at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at ntlug.org] On Behalf
Of Mike Hart
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 5:51 AM
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Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Advice on email account

For years, I've used web mail (yahoo and gmail) for security (in most cases
viruses can't get through a webmail interface).  While cleanup is a little
slower, I find them far more reliable, and easier to migrate when it comes
time to change distro. 

That said, I went 10 months looking for a job without a single interview. I
went through my resume time and again and couldn't find anything wrong with
it. Then, In a class on resumes, I heard 3 other unemployees say they had
previously been in HR departments and one of their first screens on
applications was to throw out all the "fake" gmail, hotmail, and yahoo
accounts.  Within a couple weeks after I changed my resume to list a
different webmail account ending in .edu, I started getting calls.  

I guess what I'm saying is, remember your email address is like your zip
code these days, and some people will choose to make judgements about you
based on what comes after the @ sign. 

--- On Mon, 1/17/11, Hank Ivy < <mailto:hankivy at hot.rr.com>
hankivy at hot.rr.com> wrote:

From: Hank Ivy <hankivy at hot.rr.com>

Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Advice on email account

To: "NTLUG Discussion List" <discuss at ntlug.org>

Date: Monday, January 17, 2011, 12:41 AM

I am looking at changing my Internet Service Provider, ISP.  The only fly in
the ointment is they provide my primary email account.  What advice do you
have for me about two items.

1.  What independent email account provider would you recommend?

  Should I go with something like gmail?

  Should I just pay for a host presence (and IP name on the internet) and
have my own email host?

2. Do you have any advice on how to go about changing email accounts without
missing important emails?

-- 

Hank Ivy

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