[NTLUG:Discuss] Advice on email account

[Bobby Sanders]

I also use my own domain for my email.  Used OpenSourceHosting for
incoming and outgoing.  The "Big Boys" (aol, gmail, etc.) started
returning the email I sent through OpenSource.  On contacting them they
said they couldn't do anything about the problem.  So I configured my
email client to show my OpenSource addy in my outgoing but to send it
through my local ISP.  (For some reason the "Big Boys" trusted them!) 
Then my ISP forced all of its customers to use gmail.  I was able to
re-configure to get what I wanted, but I needed the ISP's support to
help me accomplish this.  Good Luck


Bobby

On 01/17/2011 08:50 AM, Burton Strauss III wrote:
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> /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 #.
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> /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
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> -----Original Message-----
> 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
> To: NTLUG Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Advice on email account
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> 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. 
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> 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.  
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> 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. 
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> --- On Mon, 1/17/11, Hank Ivy < <mailto:hankivy at hot.rr.com>
> hankivy at hot.rr.com> wrote:
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> From: Hank Ivy <hankivy at hot.rr.com>
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> Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Advice on email account
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> To: "NTLUG Discussion List" <discuss at ntlug.org>
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> Date: Monday, January 17, 2011, 12:41 AM
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> 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
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> 1.  What independent email account provider would you recommend?
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>   Should I go with something like gmail?
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>   Should I just pay for a host presence (and IP name on the internet) and
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> 2. Do you have any advice on how to go about changing email accounts without
> missing important emails?
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