Yahoo mail

[DollaBill]

I have a friend that has had the same email forever. It's her married name and now that she's divorced she wants a new one but wants to be able to forward all incoming mail to the new one and keep the old contacts. How do you do this?

thanks

 

[MacGyver]

Is there an option to export her contacts to a file on her computer. Then import the contacts file into her new account?

 

[ImaPoser]

Crap. I wonder if that's why my wife has always kept her maiden name for her email addresses. :banghead:

 

[DollaBill]

Crap. I wonder if that's why my wife has always kept her maiden name for her email addresses. :banghead:

oh **** lets not start another phuking wife thread. There's already one to join.

 

[Wobble]

It is very easy with Google mail and any other mail provider I have had over the past 20 years, I'd assume that it would be for Yahoo also, just dig down into the account settings, usually it lets you auto-forward a copy

 

[cuda]

Any type of webmail, such as Google.

 

[ImaPoser]

oh **** lets not start another phuking wife thread. There's already one to join.

Ok. I'll try to be helpful. It doesn't look like yahoo makes it easy. They want you to upgrade to mail plus(with a yearly fee) to do the mail forwarding. Next best option would be to create a second account. In the options it says you can create two email addresses with only one inbox. If she did that, and made sure to always respond using the new address, over time most people would get around to the new address. If she made it a point to correct every mail coming in to the new account(auto notices from banks/stores/forums/etc.), it would eventually work itself out and still leave it open to receive emails long after the fact on the old address.

 

[cigdaze]

When I switched from Yahoo (P.O.S.) to GMail, what I did was set up a vacation auto-reply. I think that the max it allowed was 6 months, but it got me through the transition. I simply made the auto-reply say "I have a new email account, please now use XXX@gmail.com to contact me." Though it's not a forward, it worked like a charm and allowed everyone who writes me to make note of my new address. The problem will come with all the old, forgotten accounts that you have that use your email (bank statements, emagazines, etc., etc.). It literally took me almost a year to get all of them converted. Just keep an eye on new mail every month to see who still has your old email and one-by-one make the changes. It was worse than moving. I never want to do that again.