Hi Diana You can’t really “port” an email address to another ISP. When you change ISP’s you will get a new one. With iinet, you can pay them $25 per year per email address to “keep” those email addresses. So if you have 2 email addresses you want to keep, then you’d be paying them $50 per year to keep the iinet address. But Telstra can’t take those email addresses to them. They can only stay with iinet. So you’d either need to keep the addresses for a year or so, and tell people your “new” email addresses, or carry on paying every year to iinet for them. This is why some people a) stick with their ISP to keep their email address or b) go for a “non-ISP” address (e.g. iCloud.com or gmail.com, hotmail etc). That way they then have the email address “forever”.
I think a lot of people have on and off problems with iinet (myself included), but when my NBN comes, I’m staying with them for now. I’ll wait to the mess that is NBN is hopefully sorted out and then see what it’s like. I’m working on the “better the devil you know” theory,….lol. I keep Telstra for my mobile, but I don’t want my internet with them. But I don’t think there’s a “fantastic” ISP out there really. They all seem to have problems here and there (which I can understand), but I don’t think any one ISP is that much better then anyone. I think all the “great” ISP’s got gobbled up by larger companies. And service went out the window……… (service? We can’t afford to factor that into our plans,..don’t be silly! lol). (Yes, sometimes you get the right person and it’s OK,…..other times it’s a great big mess). More to do with moving support centres all overseas I think. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could do the same. Oh, a problem with the bill? Sorry you’ll need to talk to our support centre,…they’re overseas. They only work 10mins a day once a week, every other day. Leave a message and they’ll get back to you,….sometime. Maybe. Perhaps. Hard to say). :) hehe. So long story short….. If you want to keep the emails, you’d need to ask iinet to swap you to an “email only account” once you’ve changed to the new provider - then pay per each email per year. Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone 7 --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: <daniel AT macwizardry.com.au> Web: <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> **For everything Apple** NOTE: Any information provided in this email may be my personal opinion and as such should be taken accordingly, and may not be the views of MacWizardry. Any information provided does not offer or warrant any form of warranty or accept liability. It would be appreciated that if any information in this email is to be disseminated, distributed or copied, that permission by the author be requested. > On 15 Apr 2018, at 4:00 pm, Diana & Graham Stevens <diag...@iinet.net.au> > wrote: > > Can someone tell me where to find information on porting email addresses, the > preparation for it and how the process works please? We want to take two > accounts one imap, one pop. > > We are thinking of abandoning iiNet after 21.75 years and moving to Telstra. > I had planned to move our phone services in the opposite direction in order > to save money until I was ‘sold a pup’ by some rotter in South Africa. Having > lied to me and wasted my money he became incommunicado. When I complained via > their website I got no answer. > > Telstra will be more expensive but it has the advantage that I can get the > bus to the Telstra store, I have trouble on the phone with their accents and > my hearing. > > Best wishes to all from Diana > Sent from my iPad > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
