new internet provider

[Ann Smith]

I have a new Internet provider being installed tomorrow. I would like to get a e-mail address and keep it, rather than changing every time I get a new isp. I tried gmail, but they say someone already has the name we like to use. Any other suggestions?
Ann

[Hans Deventer]

Still go for Gmail but use another name, like AnnSmith47 or Ann47Smith. The number can be any number that means something to you, that you can easily remember.

[David Pettigrew]

I'm a big gmail guy. I really enjoy its features.

[Gary Creely]

I am a huge gmail fan, I have accounts with msn, me.com, yahoo, and others. Gmail is by far the best.

[Paul DeBaufer]

Through ipower.com you can get your own domain, up-load a website and have 2500 e-mail addresses for about $72 a year. Then you pick you own names.

[G R 'Scott' Cundiff]

I'm on gmail and like it very much.

Many people don't know it, but the Google Apps program offers a free partnership with about anyone who controls a domain name. Our church emails are all actually gmail. I offered all our leaders alvinnazarene.org email addresses. When you sign in, you're on the familiar gmail page, but it is identified by alvinnazarene.

Aside from finding some name variation, though, you might check out www.nazmail.com - operated by Nazarenes and free.

[Billie Goodson]

Gmail here too...and I have observed the benefits Scott talked about and considered using it at our church, but haven't taken the plunge yet. Google is really taking over the world one app at a time.

[Paul DeBaufer]

I'm on gmail and like it very much.

Many people don't know it, but the Google Apps program offers a free partnership with about anyone who controls a domain name. Our church emails are all actually gmail. I offered all our leaders alvinnazarene.org email addresses. When you sign in, you're on the familiar gmail page, but it is identified by alvinnazarene.

Aside from finding some name variation, though, you might check out www.nazmail.com - operated by Nazarenes and free.

I was with a church that used Google apps. Works well with the worship team to get teh music and lyrics to the members prior to rehearsal. A little clunky, but for non-profits it is free.

[Kevin Rector]

I have a nazmail account and a gmail account. I actually redirect my nazmail account to my gmail account since gmail has a better interface, works on my phone, and has better spam filtering.

[Jeremy D. Scott]

Many people don't know it, but the Google Apps program offers a free partnership with about anyone who controls a domain name. Our church emails are all actually gmail. I offered all our leaders alvinnazarene.org email addresses. When you sign in, you're on the familiar gmail page, but it is identified by alvinnazarene.

I've had this set up for three years now for our northst.org and it's a beautiful, beautiful thing.

[G R 'Scott' Cundiff]

I have a nazmail account and a gmail account. I actually redirect my nazmail account to my gmail account since gmail has a better interface, works on my phone, and has better spam filtering.

Off the top of my head, I have 7 or 8 email addresses, but, like you I funnel them all to a gmail account. If you turn on the option to always use as the return address the account to which the email was addressed, it let's you collect "official" emails sent to the church, etc. and always return with the same address.

It took me a long time to stop using POP3 and start using the web based client. At first I set it up to download to my computer and also leave it on the web server, but over time, I used the POP3 less and less and embraced with dark side of the force, Google.

[Gary Creely]

Many people don't know it, but the Google Apps program offers a free partnership with about anyone who controls a domain name. Our church emails are all actually gmail. I offered all our leaders alvinnazarene.org email addresses. When you sign in, you're on the familiar gmail page, but it is identified by alvinnazarene.

I do a variation on this approach, in that I have my long time Gmail account go in and get mail off of my various email servers via pop 3. Then I set up filter and such to organize things in a central gmail email box.

Basically I use gmail in this way like an email client in the cloud.

[Charlene Clevenger]

I've been using NazMail for years. The filtering used to be very good, but the last several months I've been getting a lot of spam. I haven't done it yet, but I want to do like others have said and redirect my nazmail and yahoo emails to my gmail acct. I haven't used gmail yet, but I have it set up.

[Kevin Rector]

I've been using NazMail for years. The filtering used to be very good, but the last several months I've been getting a lot of spam. I haven't done it yet, but I want to do like others have said and redirect my nazmail and yahoo emails to my gmail acct. I haven't used gmail yet, but I have it set up.

You'll not look back once you join the borg....er google collective.

[Gary Creely]

You'll not look back once you join the borg....er google collective.

Resistance is futile

[Hans Deventer]

It took me a long time to stop using POP3 and start using the web based client. At first I set it up to download to my computer and also leave it on the web server, but over time, I used the POP3 less and less and embraced with dark side of the force, Google.

It's been a long time since I used POP. Have been using IMAP for years now.

[G R 'Scott' Cundiff]

It's been a long time since I used POP. Have been using IMAP for years now.

I actually ran IMAP for awhile, but, when all was said and done, I found I just didn't care about handling email locally. Removing IMAP was the final step to using a web based email service.

[Charlene Clevenger]

I took the plunge and went to gmail. My nazmail is being forwarded without any problems. Yahoo wanted to charge a fee to forward messages, so I'm not doing it. I only used yahoo for a few accts, so I changed my email on those accts and will only use my yahoo acct for the football pick 'em.

[Jeremy D. Scott]

Yahoo wanted to charge a fee to forward messages, so I'm not doing it.

Really? Goodness...all the more reason to switch to Gmail, which, as far as I can tell only charges for more storage, which unless you use Google Accounts for more than Gmail (like Picasa, Docs, etc.), probably will not matter. I'm almost 4.5 years into using Gmail and am only using 51% of my alloted space.

[Billie Goodson]

I took the plunge and went to gmail. My nazmail is being forwarded without any problems. Yahoo wanted to charge a fee to forward messages, so I'm not doing it. I only used yahoo for a few accts, so I changed my email on those accts and will only use my yahoo acct for the football pick 'em.


Really? Goodness...all the more reason to switch to Gmail, which, as far as I can tell only charges for more storage, which unless you use Google Accounts for more than Gmail (like Picasa, Docs, etc.), probably will not matter. I'm almost 4.5 years into using Gmail and am only using 51% of my alloted space.

I ran into that also with Yahoo wanting to charge -- that is an advantage of using my iPhone for my email, it automatically checks all of my accounts! I am at a whopping 6% of my storage space on Gmail, I probalby need to clean it up in the next 20 years or so.

[Gina Stevenson]

Yes, you can't even DL yahoo email, even if you don't try forwarding it to another email account; if you want to do the Thunderbird/whatever read-mail-off-line thing, they won't let you do that without the "Yahoo plus" (think that's what it's called) and pay for it.

Have so much stuck in yahoo now that would be hard to manually, one-by-one, forward to gmail. Yet some of it I don't really want to dump. So, not sure what to do ... unless one maybe pays for it for just one month, gets their stuff out of there, and then dumps them altogether ??? Tempting, instead of manually taking forever to do it.

[Jeremy D. Scott]

I'm almost 4.5 years into using Gmail and am only using 51% of my alloted space.

Scratch that...it's been well over 5 years now.

[Charlene Clevenger]

Once you start going through it I think you'll find there's a lot less that you really need to keep than you think. Still, it would take time to go through everything.


Yes, you can't even DL yahoo email, even if you don't try forwarding it to another email account; if you want to do the Thunderbird/whatever read-mail-off-line thing, they won't let you do that without the "Yahoo plus" (think that's what it's called) and pay for it.

Have so much stuck in yahoo now that would be hard to manually, one-by-one, forward to gmail. Yet some of it I don't really want to dump. So, not sure what to do ... unless one maybe pays for it for just one month, gets their stuff out of there, and then dumps them altogether ??? Tempting, instead of manually taking forever to do it.

[G R 'Scott' Cundiff]

Once you start going through it I think you'll find there's a lot less that you really need to keep than you think. Still, it would take time to go through everything.

I know I'm in the minority, but I don't keep many emails at all. If there's something that needs to be saved (instructions, schedules, helpful information) I don't hesitate to keep it. Otherwise, I read it and toss it.

I'm currently using 3% of my Gmail storage and have around 5 messages saved in my NazNet personal message folder.