E mail access
Nov 2nd 2005, 10:49 am
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E mail access
Hi,
I only know enough about pc's and the internet to get me around. While in the UK I have broadband (BT Yahoo). I can't seem to get a straight reply from them, when you go abroad or cease your account do you still keep your original e mail address. They are quick to take my pennies now, and just tell me that when I stop the account I will need to subscribe to something smaller ??? I don't understand! When my pc is stored and shipped I'll need to access e mails (re the move to NZ). Any suggestions please.
Boopy
I only know enough about pc's and the internet to get me around. While in the UK I have broadband (BT Yahoo). I can't seem to get a straight reply from them, when you go abroad or cease your account do you still keep your original e mail address. They are quick to take my pennies now, and just tell me that when I stop the account I will need to subscribe to something smaller ??? I don't understand! When my pc is stored and shipped I'll need to access e mails (re the move to NZ). Any suggestions please.
Boopy
Nov 2nd 2005, 10:53 am
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Re: E mail access
Originally Posted by Boopy
Hi,
I only know enough about pc's and the internet to get me around. While in the UK I have broadband (BT Yahoo). I can't seem to get a straight reply from them, when you go abroad or cease your account do you still keep your original e mail address. They are quick to take my pennies now, and just tell me that when I stop the account I will need to subscribe to something smaller ??? I don't understand! When my pc is stored and shipped I'll need to access e mails (re the move to NZ). Any suggestions please.
Boopy
I only know enough about pc's and the internet to get me around. While in the UK I have broadband (BT Yahoo). I can't seem to get a straight reply from them, when you go abroad or cease your account do you still keep your original e mail address. They are quick to take my pennies now, and just tell me that when I stop the account I will need to subscribe to something smaller ??? I don't understand! When my pc is stored and shipped I'll need to access e mails (re the move to NZ). Any suggestions please.
Boopy
Nov 2nd 2005, 11:18 am
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Re: E mail access
Does that mean, I'll have no access to e mails until I get to NZ and set up another account there. What do people do when they go on holiday abroad and keep in touch by e mail.
Boopy
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Originally Posted by turkeytickler
if your email address ends in yahoo.co.uk or yahoo.com or yahoo.anything for that matter, you should be able to access it via mail.yahoo.com from anywhere in the world. if not, its probably sayonara...
Nov 2nd 2005, 1:01 pm
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Re: E mail access
Boopy,
The comment about Yahoo being your only option isn't quite correct, in fact I'd recommend avoiding Yahoo like the plague
The best way to get free mail which you can access from anywhere in the world at anytime is to sign up for an account with hotmail or gmail both of which are free.
Alternatively you could invest £9 now and buy yourself a NZ domain name (www.boopy.co.nz is available
) , start using it now, and set it up to forward to your BT account. I've used www.1stdomains.co.nz, but if you're not too computer literate feel free to PM me for more help.
Laurence
The comment about Yahoo being your only option isn't quite correct, in fact I'd recommend avoiding Yahoo like the plague
The best way to get free mail which you can access from anywhere in the world at anytime is to sign up for an account with hotmail or gmail both of which are free.
Alternatively you could invest £9 now and buy yourself a NZ domain name (www.boopy.co.nz is available
) , start using it now, and set it up to forward to your BT account. I've used www.1stdomains.co.nz, but if you're not too computer literate feel free to PM me for more help.Laurence
Nov 2nd 2005, 7:18 pm
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Re: E mail access
Originally Posted by Boopy
Hi,
I only know enough about pc's and the internet to get me around. While in the UK I have broadband (BT Yahoo). I can't seem to get a straight reply from them, when you go abroad or cease your account do you still keep your original e mail address. They are quick to take my pennies now, and just tell me that when I stop the account I will need to subscribe to something smaller ??? I don't understand! When my pc is stored and shipped I'll need to access e mails (re the move to NZ). Any suggestions please.
Boopy
I only know enough about pc's and the internet to get me around. While in the UK I have broadband (BT Yahoo). I can't seem to get a straight reply from them, when you go abroad or cease your account do you still keep your original e mail address. They are quick to take my pennies now, and just tell me that when I stop the account I will need to subscribe to something smaller ??? I don't understand! When my pc is stored and shipped I'll need to access e mails (re the move to NZ). Any suggestions please.
Boopy
Nov 2nd 2005, 11:22 pm
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Re: E mail access
Originally Posted by Boopy
Hi,
I only know enough about pc's and the internet to get me around. While in the UK I have broadband (BT Yahoo). I can't seem to get a straight reply from them, when you go abroad or cease your account do you still keep your original e mail address. They are quick to take my pennies now, and just tell me that when I stop the account I will need to subscribe to something smaller ??? I don't understand! When my pc is stored and shipped I'll need to access e mails (re the move to NZ). Any suggestions please.
Boopy
I only know enough about pc's and the internet to get me around. While in the UK I have broadband (BT Yahoo). I can't seem to get a straight reply from them, when you go abroad or cease your account do you still keep your original e mail address. They are quick to take my pennies now, and just tell me that when I stop the account I will need to subscribe to something smaller ??? I don't understand! When my pc is stored and shipped I'll need to access e mails (re the move to NZ). Any suggestions please.
Boopy
our UK internet was btinternet (same thing as yahoo in effect) - we were told that if we cancelled our broadband we would lose the email address so to save changing and then changing again we're maintaining the btinternet broadband account for 2 months (we pay be direct debit so wasn't dependent on a phone account, and we've kept the UK bank accounts) and then we'll cancel. This keeps the email address which we can access on any computer with internet access via www.yahoo.com (and then sign in for mail with username and password) and means that we can get the nz broadband and email up and running and known to everyone.
Vicki
Nov 3rd 2005, 7:04 am
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Re: E mail access
Originally Posted by Joshlin
Hi Boopy
our UK internet was btinternet (same thing as yahoo in effect) - we were told that if we cancelled our broadband we would lose the email address so to save changing and then changing again we're maintaining the btinternet broadband account for 2 months (we pay be direct debit so wasn't dependent on a phone account, and we've kept the UK bank accounts) and then we'll cancel. This keeps the email address which we can access on any computer with internet access via www.yahoo.com (and then sign in for mail with username and password) and means that we can get the nz broadband and email up and running and known to everyone.
Vicki
our UK internet was btinternet (same thing as yahoo in effect) - we were told that if we cancelled our broadband we would lose the email address so to save changing and then changing again we're maintaining the btinternet broadband account for 2 months (we pay be direct debit so wasn't dependent on a phone account, and we've kept the UK bank accounts) and then we'll cancel. This keeps the email address which we can access on any computer with internet access via www.yahoo.com (and then sign in for mail with username and password) and means that we can get the nz broadband and email up and running and known to everyone.
Vicki
Nov 3rd 2005, 9:19 pm
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Re: E mail access
Originally Posted by ledge
Boopy,
The comment about Yahoo being your only option isn't quite correct, in fact I'd recommend avoiding Yahoo like the plague
The best way to get free mail which you can access from anywhere in the world at anytime is to sign up for an account with hotmail or gmail both of which are free.
Alternatively you could invest £9 now and buy yourself a NZ domain name (www.boopy.co.nz is available ) , start using it now, and set it up to forward to your BT account. I've used www.1stdomains.co.nz, but if you're not too computer literate feel free to PM me for more help.
Laurence
The comment about Yahoo being your only option isn't quite correct, in fact I'd recommend avoiding Yahoo like the plague
The best way to get free mail which you can access from anywhere in the world at anytime is to sign up for an account with hotmail or gmail both of which are free.
Alternatively you could invest £9 now and buy yourself a NZ domain name (www.boopy.co.nz is available
) , start using it now, and set it up to forward to your BT account. I've used www.1stdomains.co.nz, but if you're not too computer literate feel free to PM me for more help.Laurence
the op wanted to keep the original email address so you it was correct actually.
