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iris lilies
6-4-22, 11:10am
This will be easy for all of you. It is not easy for me.


I’m closing an account with AT&T next month. AT&T provides my email service in the city.
Spectrum provides Wi-Fi service at my condo. Some other company I can’t remember provides Wi-Fi service in Hermann.


How do I keep my same email address?

Alan
6-4-22, 12:39pm
How do I keep my same email address?I don't know that there's a definitive answer to this question if your email address is hosted by your internet service provider.
If they restrict access to their email servers to current customers only and shut down email accounts upon termination of service you're pretty much out of luck.

Email accounts hosted by non-ISP's such as Gmail or Yahoo or a host of others provide service regardless of your ISP so you can continue to use those for as long as that service remains available. I've changed ISP's a couple of times over the years but have never used their domains for email purposes since I secured a couple of personal domains over 20 years ago and let Google host them for free under their GSuite operation. (I hosted them on my own mail server for a couple of years but maintaining those machines 24x7x365 became a burden I was happy to relinquish)

I suppose there's a possibility that whichever ISP is currently hosting your account may let it sit there and provide access forever, but I wouldn't count on it. Probably best to contact them and ask what happens to email when you cease service. Perhaps they'll allow you to continue receiving mail and provide a mail forwarding service to your next email address.

JaneV2.0
6-4-22, 2:59pm
Yahoo hosts my AT&T account.

happystuff
6-4-22, 4:02pm
Switching providers the very first time taught me to get a web-based email address. Hope you are able to maintain your current one, IL.

ToomuchStuff
6-5-22, 12:37am
Who is your phone service with?

While Alan is probably correct, if you have ATT as your cell service, you should be able to access your account via that.

If not, forward to your address book that your email is changing. Then download or forward all of your emails to your new account.

iris lilies
6-7-22, 9:40am
Yahoo hosts my AT&T account.
Is that the relationship? I always kind of thought it was AT&T hosting my Yahoo account. But I know you are right, I just am confused about the relationship between those two. When I call with a tech problem I always call the wrong one. It turned out that it was AT&T that address is my email problem.

I haven’t solved this changeover problem yet because on Sunday afternoon my email stopped working so I had to ticus on that. It took 1+ hours on the phone to India for them to “sync” Everything and I don’t even know what that means. I just know that it was a giant pain in the ass and I was panicked because I had three important situations going, managing via email.

JaneV2.0
6-7-22, 11:38am
I dread having to call any offshore help desk. I'd rather take a week to fix it myself.

JaneV2.0
6-7-22, 7:05pm
I bet your email is web-based; I've been able to access mine from random computers, like those at the library. I have a Comcast account I never use that will likely disappear if I change providers.

iris lilies
6-7-22, 9:04pm
I bet your email is web-based; I've been able to access mine from random computers, like those at the library. I have a Comcast account I never use that will likely disappear if I change providers.
Well yeah, I have accessed my email account from many European countries over the years. So I guess that is positive.

iris lilies
6-28-22, 11:18am
Still flailing about in ignorance here. Today I called AT and T to ask: what happens to my email account when I close my AT and T internet and landline service?

The little foreign voice said:nothing will happen, it is a free service.

not being stupid, I do not entirely buy this, but Since it is not the first time I heard “AT&T email service is free” I may kinda/sorta believe it for a while anyway. When I move from St. Louis I’m dropping AT&T Internet, AT&T lndline. We are continuing with AT&T cell phone plans.

A supporting fact is this: my friend who moved to New Hampshire still has the same email address ending in “swbell.net” and she says she doesn’t know who provides her email service. I do not THINK (but am not certain) she pays AT&T for anything.




When my email stopped working about three weeks ago, Yahoo told me to call AT&T. Two hours on the phone to India with AT and T finally fixed it.

I am terrified that my email address will stop working somehow in the next few weeks as we move to a new place, and etc. I am running a three day workshop in early August and I absolutely cannot afford to be without email. So I have told DH to just pay the damn bill through August to not disrupt anything. Another fly in the ointment is that every time I set up a new computer somehow my email stops working, and I do need to set up my new laptop at some point.


At some point I suppose I can move to a Gmail account but I absolutely cannot do that within the next few weeks. Gmail is also complicated by the fact that I have several Gmail accounts, most of them associated with my neighborhood, but I want to erase all of them. I also do not understand how yahoo fits in with AT&T and I’m really tired of going around in these circles of thought. Ugh!!!!!

JaneV2.0
6-28-22, 11:23am
My Yahoo/AT&T account is spam-based, ads up the wazoo. So "free," but not free.

iris lilies
6-28-22, 11:39am
My Yahoo/AT&T account is spam-based, ads up the wazoo. So "free," but not free.
I guess that is the answer, as long as I put up with the spamming things I can get service. I will saw quite a number of them, a majority, are caught up in spam control. And then every week I unsubscribe to dump stuff that comes through.

JaneV2.0
6-28-22, 12:17pm
I guess that is the answer, as long as I put up with the spamming things I can get service. I will saw quite a number of them, a majority, are caught up in spam control. And then every week I unsubscribe to dump stuff that comes through.

You can't avoid these ads--they masquerade as incoming posts.

iris lilies
6-28-22, 12:47pm
You can't avoid these ads--they masquerade as incoming posts.yes but my spam blocker catches many of them

JaneV2.0
6-28-22, 1:21pm
Oh yeah, spam blocker is a treasure.
These are special, though. >:(

catherine
6-28-22, 2:13pm
So, I'm on the opposite end of this deep question, because I never in my mind attached my yahoo account to my AT&T account. I moved from NJ to VT and never did a thing, but I did bring AT&T with me. I guess it's web-based, as others have said. Now, Comcast gave me an email account, and Apple gave me a Mac account, but I never use those. I did sign up for a gmail account so I could forward all those "sign up for 15% off" banners on commerce sites I want to browse.

I am 99% sure nothing would happen to my email address if I closed my AT&T account.

JaneV2.0
6-28-22, 3:20pm
I never merged my AT&T account with a Yahoo account either. I'm just lucky, I guess. >:(

iris lilies
6-28-22, 5:22pm
I never merged my AT&T account with a Yahoo account either. I'm just lucky, I guess. >:(
I don’t know that I took any action to actually get a Yahoo account, but I have a yahoo account that keeps showing up in various times and places.