[NTLUG:Discuss] Advice on email account

[Leroy Tennison]

On 01/17/2011 12:41 AM, Hank Ivy wrote:
> I am looking at changing my Internet Service Provider, ISP.  The only fly in the ointment is
> they provide my primary email account.  What advice do you have for me about two items.
>
> 1.  What independent email account provider would you recommend?
>    Should I go with something like gmail?
>    Should I just pay for a host presence (and IP name on the internet) and have my own email
> host?
>
> 2. Do you have any advice on how to go about changing email accounts without missing important
> emails?
>
A possibility to consider is an intermediary email provider such as 
pobox.com.  I have a friend who went that route, basically they forward 
your email to wherever so that you can switch "real" email addresses 
without losing your "public" email address.