How not to change email addresses

March 13th, 2007 | by Vinny |

If you want to switch from Yahoo to Gmail, follow these steps-

  1. Set your Yahoo email to forward to your Gmail account.
  2. Set a Vacation Message on your Yahoo account indicating the change.
  3. Oh, and before that, make sure your Gmail account is not already set to forward to your Yahoo account. That probably should have been #1, huh?

If you were having bandwidth issues with either service yesterday, it was most likely because my latest “Grow Your p3ni5 to EN0RM0US proportions” email was caught in an email loop.

“Ewwwww- you take it!”
“No- YOU take it!”
“He told me to send it to you!”
“Well, he told ME to send it to YOU!”

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  1. 4 Responses to “How not to change email addresses”

  2. By on Mar 13, 2007 | Reply

    That’s adorable! I commiserate with both accounts - nobody likes spam. :)

  3. By on Mar 13, 2007 | Reply

    “Set a Vacation Message on your Yahoo account indicating the change.”

    Addendum for ya: Do not have the vacation message contain the actual email address… spell it out, add lots of spaces, or something, else the spambots will farm the new address from the autoresponder.

    My 2 cents.
    :-)

  4. By on Mar 14, 2007 | Reply

    Having been in on the ground floor of this one - I did scratch my head and wonder if you took the forwarding off as you had mentioned to me on some other occasion that you paid to have your other mail services aggragate on one….

    I had a good laugh on this!

    Loev you pahtner!

  5. By on Mar 16, 2007 | Reply

    I have a suggestion for anyone how has a vanity domain name already, but not an email address to use with it. Rather than using Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, etc. for your personal email address, Google Accounts is a great, free solution, and it’s not difficult to set up.

    Major benefit is you’ll end up with up to 50 unique email addresses using your domain. (e.g. John@Smith.com, Jane@Smith.com, etc.) Google provides the backend for it. Each address gets 2GB of space too as you would with a Gmail account.

    Here’s my article about it:
    http://www.baddadradio.com/2007/03/10/free-email-hosting/
    I hope you find this useful.
    -Roland

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