Keeping BTY email after migration

I'm migrating my account from BTY to Nildram and ideally would like to keep
my BTY email account, I would be grateful if anyone else has done this and
how to go about it.

Gary Jones wrote:
> I'm migrating my account from BTY to Nildram and ideally would like
> to keep my BTY email account, I would be grateful if anyone else
> has done this and how to go about it.

Why bother..? Just set up a free account at www.despammed.com and point it
to any address you like. You can change the destination as often as you
like plus you get excellent anti-spam filtering as well.

Ivor

On 16-Mar-2005, "Gary Jones" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> I'm migrating my account from BTY to Nildram and ideally would like to
> keep
> my BTY email account, I would be grateful if anyone else has done this and
>
> how to go about it.

Hi, I migrated from BTYahoo to PlusNet last August & my pop3 BT email
accounts are still working. All I do is check the accounts for new mail
regularly, I think that checking the pop3 mail server keeps the accounts
live. You may see some opinions suggesting that you need to register as a
PAYG customer on dail up and log in on that account occasionally, but I
haven't done that & my email is still working OK.
I use mailwasher which is set up to check mail from several accounts
including BTInternet and my current ISP PlusNet. I did have an old Tiscali
email address when they were my ISP about 3 years ago and that still worked
just by regular checking, but I dumped it last year because it became filled
with spam.

If you use a POP3 client to access your email, just keep the pop3 settings
as they are and change over the smtp setting to Nildrams so that you will be
abe to send mail out.

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I think your misisng the point here of what the OP wanted. Nothing wrong
with despammed that I can see, but if the OP wanted to keep his BTY address
(to save the hassle of telling everyone and reregistering with website that
have the BTY address) then signing up to despammed wouldnt help!




"Ivor Jones" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Gary Jones wrote:
>> I'm migrating my account from BTY to Nildram and ideally would like
>> to keep my BTY email account, I would be grateful if anyone else
>> has done this and how to go about it.
>
> Why bother..? Just set up a free account at www.despammed.com and point it
> to any address you like. You can change the destination as often as you
> like plus you get excellent anti-spam filtering as well.
>
> Ivor
>
>

Steve wrote:
> I think your misisng the point here of what the OP wanted. Nothing
> wrong with despammed that I can see, but if the OP wanted to keep
> his BTY address (to save the hassle of telling everyone and
> reregistering with website that have the BTY address) then signing
> up to despammed wouldnt help!

I didn't miss the point, I know exactly what the OP wanted, but I was
suggesting a once and for all workround. An address independent of any ISP
will forever remove the need to advise people when a change of ISP
happens. It will be necessary this time, but never again.

Ivor

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In message <(E-Mail Removed)>, Ivor Jones
<(E-Mail Removed)> writes
>Gary Jones wrote:
>> I'm migrating my account from BTY to Nildram and ideally would like
>> to keep my BTY email account, I would be grateful if anyone else
>> has done this and how to go about it.
>
>Why bother..?

Probably because everybody knows to send an email to his BTY address if
they want him to read it!

> Just set up a free account at www.despammed.com and point it
>to any address you like. You can change the destination as often as you
>like plus you get excellent anti-spam filtering as well.
>
Sounds good.
For the OP, just downgrade your BTY account to payg. You only have to
log in by old fashioned modem once every 3 months or so. I make that a
cost of 20p per year. Worth it IMHO.
If you haven't got an old fashioned modem, and I think it's worth having
one to send and receive faxes and as back up, I think you can log in and
retrieve your account every so often if it has been cancelled.
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In message <(E-Mail Removed)>, Ivor Jones
<(E-Mail Removed)> writes
>It will be necessary this time, but never again.

I'd be very surprised if they are still around in 5 years or so.
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"Mind the oranges Marlon!"

Gary Jones wrote:
> I'm migrating my account from BTY to Nildram and ideally would like to keep
> my BTY email account, I would be grateful if anyone else has done this and
> how to go about it.
>
>
The official stance from BTopenwound/Yahoo! is that you need to convert
your account to one of their "Mail" accounts (see
http://www.btyahoo.com/mail). If you want to retain POP3 access, they
charge £1.50/month for that (payable by visa / mastercard or Direct Debit).

Others have reported that simply downgrading to "Pay As You Go (PAYG)"
will allow you to keep your accounts, however you will need to dial in
for a few minutes every month or so to keep your account active.

hth.

> For the OP, just downgrade your BTY account to payg. You only have to log
> in by old fashioned modem once every 3 months or so. I make that a cost of
> 20p per year. Worth it IMHO.

Alternatively (slightly more expensive than the above, but no need to
dial-up every so often), you can downgrade to BT Premium Mail - £1.50/month.

I did it - reasonably hassle-free.. though it was a couple of phone calls
(one to cancel the ISP access billed via the phone bill, one to sign-up for
the mail service and give bank details). I made sure both operators
understood I wanted the same mail account to remain active, and they
obliged.

As I'd gone for a no-frills broadband ISP without email, I was no worse off.
And I rate BT's mail service very highly, not least for its anti-spam which
is virtually 90pc effective for me.

Shame their BB offering is so expensive, but can't have everything, eh?!

pete devlin wrote:
> In message <(E-Mail Removed)>, Ivor Jones
> <(E-Mail Removed)> writes
>> It will be necessary this time, but never again.
>
> I'd be very surprised if they are still around in 5 years or so.
^^^
Who..? If you mean despammed, why..?

Ivor