Changing email address: Creating a transition period

[Theodoric]

Now that I'm starting to receive what looks like increasing amounts of spam, I'm thinking of changing my ntl address for a clean start. I remembered a thread on this subject, searched it out and found that you can do it by changing your user name.

It seems to me that it would be useful to have a transition period during which the old and new addresses were both active so that that you could notify people in your address book at your leisure. It occurred to me that this could be done by setting up your old email address as a secondary address under the new email address, then deleting it when you've successfully notified everyone. Is this possible or am I just trying to be too clever by half? It assumes, I suppose, that deleted addresses are tossed back into the pool of available addresses.

[Death Jester]

I don't know how, but ages ago I used to have 2 ntl email accounts.

So, if its still possible, you could just get the second one, notify everyone of the new one, and gradually phase out the original.

[Chris W]

Originally Posted by Death Jester

I don't know how, but ages ago I used to have 2 ntl email accounts.

So, if its still possible, you could just get the second one, notify everyone of the new one, and gradually phase out the original.

You are allowed upto 15 email addresses on an ntl BB account, so setting up a second is perfectly possible. To add an account go here

you can then continue to use the old account, until you are satisfied that everything is migrated to the new one.

For instructions on setting up email in Outlook Express see here

hope this helps!

[Theodoric]

Originally Posted by monkeybreath

You are allowed upto 15 email addresses on an ntl BB account, so setting up a second is perfectly possible. To add an account go here

you can then continue to use the old account, until you are satisfied that everything is migrated to the new one.

For instructions on setting up email in Outlook Express see here

hope this helps!

The problem is that I want to change the primary address, which is where the spam has started to appear. If I'd realised initially about multiple address, I'd have set one up, used it until it became too spam-laden, then deleted it. As far as I can see, even if I start using a secondary address, I will have to keep checking the primary address as that is where ntl will send me any important messages. My cunning plan is to set up a new primary address with a complicated name that will be far to difficult to guess and then never use it (except for checking for anything from ntl) whilst using disposable secondary addresses for everyday use.