Automatic email forwarding - a query
 

Apologies if this is old hat – this is my first time on the Computer page.

Problem: my ISP, in a sandpit in a land far, far to the East, is an unmitigated disaster, but currently, a Government-run monopoly, so I’m stuck with it. If, however, the local authorities ever decide to allow competition in, I, like thousands of other dissatisfied ‘customers’, will be swapping ISPs immediately.

That, of course, will involve a new email address, so what I’m looking for in the meantime is a (preferably) freeserve site that will allow me to forward all my email automatically to my existing account and when/if I can have a new local email address, to that one without having to contact all my contacts with a new address. This will hopefully allow me to keep the same email address after I leave these fair shore to return home.

I know you can forward Hotmail and Yahoo mail, but does anyone have another site that allows you to select or make up your own address After the “@” that will allow this automatic forwarding facility?

Bigfoot.com offers this type of service - your address becomes:

[email protected]

and they will forward your mail to whichever address you give them.

(Edit. Oh, and it's free!)

[This message has been edited by attackattackattack (edited 30 June 2000).]

Thanks a lot.

However, after a brief glance at Bigfoot's site, it appears you have to be a customer to avail yourself of this service. Can you be a Bigfoot customer without parting with cash, ie, have a Telstra account of some kind?

[This message has been edited by Fubaar (edited 01 July 2000).]

I couldn't make Bigfoot work for me either, Attackcubed. It seems to cater for Telstra customers, which I'm also not.
I'd be interested in something like Fubaar's asked for as well - a freebie site that will give me a portable address but that saves me from having to log onto Hotmail every day to check my email. (Getting on to Hotmail's not always assured here. Slowest ****** isp in the world!!!)
If Bigfoot does offer the service, could you tell a total computer dope how to go about it?
Thanks

Fubaar etc:

I have an account with mail.com, which gave me a choice of domain names as well as a choice of user names, and lets me forward my mail to wherever I want. It's completely free and seems to work well. You might want to check it out.

cheers
Cyrano

I'm not a customer of telstra and I've just created a new bigfoot address to check that it works.

go to http://www.bigfoot.com and click on 'Join Bigfoot' and fill in the details.

If you're having problems could it be that you're having 'local interference'? In which case you could try the UK specific bigfoot at http://uk.bigfoot.com

It does seem clear that, for whatever reasons, you're not seeing the same as me. If all else fails mail.com is a perfectly viable alternative ( it also offers some more interesting addresses).

Fubaar,
Bigfoot is free.
I'd rather trust Yahoo though.

Blacky

AFAIK Yahoo isn't a mail forwarding service. It is however a very good Internet mail service.

I use mail.com for my personal & pprune email service and am very happy with it.

All free, you have the choice of forwarding your mail to your ISP's mail server (from which you collect your mail as per usual), or you can use mail.com's web based mail service to access your mail from any browser anywhere. Handy if you know you're going to be using internet cafe or someone elses PC for while.

Whenever you change your ISP you simply log onto mail.com & change your forwarding address.

The catch with these services is if they merge or close. You can find you no longer have the mail address you started with. It either gets altered in the merger, or disappears altogether.

In spite of this, I still find it better than an email address that's tied to a particular ISP.

attackattackattack
Go to options in Yahoo mail and set up the addy you want yr yahoo mail to fwd to. :)

Blacky

Thank you. *Wanders off removing blindfold*