Account cancellation and the thorny subject of email continuity

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No

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No, I guess that would be too good to be true.

I have historic back up of email with old Windows live mail on my desktop.

Tell me why I shouldn't use Gmail?

[#3]

If you're happy with Google managing your email and contacts then fine! Remember it's a free service and they must be making money from it somewhere or they wouldn't do it!

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My websites and associated bits are with Ecohosting as recommended by a very knowledgeable member of this forum.

Seem to remember it was @MisterW ............................

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@Champnet  yes , I've had one of my domains with Ecohosting  and was very happy until recently, when they upped my annual fee for email from £9.99 to £30. At £9.99 I was happy to continue with them even though I could  add the domain  to my Mythic account for free. At £30, sorry I'm not prepared to pay that! So last week I moved the domain to Mythic.

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@MisterW  I’ve  four websites with Ecohosting. I haven’t noticed any large price increases but I’ll check in the morning.

I may end up going with your latest recommendation….

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@Champnet I was on the Business email only account. Shortly after the takeover by Hostpresto , they increased the pricing on the lower tier home and business email only accounts, so maybe its just those accounts affected. Presumably they didn't really want those accounts, well they succeeded in my case!.

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@paulsowerbutts 

Clearly moving email providers is going to be a pain but of the free ones personally I suggest Microsoft's outlook.com

It is based on Microsoft exchange (you will probably use IMAP with Google and an email client) and seems to work well even with quite a lot of email.

On the assumption you already have a Microsoft account you probably have an email address (Hotmail, Live etc.) but when I was looking to change email providers I created a new Microsoft account just to use for email (you can be signed in with one to a computer and use a different one with an email programme) and that worked well for me.

You can synchronise your Plusnet email via IMAP then copy the email into a folder (called old email say) in the Outlook.com account.

After a degree of further synchronising you will have it there. I would also export it to some form of "post" file (depending on on the email client you use).

With lots of data this can be a slow process and different email clients allow different ways of doing it but I've "salvaged" email going back many years with this kind of approach.

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@G6JPG-0 wrote:

(I think there was something else you said that I wanted to respond to, but I've forgotten what: this forum not letting me see the post I'm replying to, while I'm typing my reply, is irritating.)

@G6JPG-0 

Not sure what device/browser you are using but, usually, if you scroll down far enough you should see the post you are replying to.

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@paulsowerbutts 

I would also recommend MythicBeasts who also have a web-based email program but,with help from @MisterW, I set up everything using MS Outlook.

If you do as suggested by @Baldrick1 and create a new thread in the Email board I am sure you will receive a great deal of help as and when necessary.

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Not sure what device/browser you are using but, usually, if you scroll down far enough you should see the post you are replying to.

Thanks - I discovered that just after my previous post. It seems illogical that, when reading a thread, the posts appear in increasing numerical order as you read down the thread (which makes reading the thread make sense), but when you add one, it shows the one you're replying to below the text box. (But I suppose that's the - top-posting - way these days.)

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@G6JPG-0  I get round it by re-opening the thread in another tab...

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I don't post on many forums these days, but on those I do, that seems to be the default setting, @G6JPG-0