My thanks again.

I'll try that "Leave a copy on the server" later.

I am making progress, got all my Contacts over, then went through, removing many etc.

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Taking other sites such as TBB, Samknows, Find My Past etc, which use e-mail addresses as Usernames, do these have to be changed?

Only if they do or can do send you emails like here.

Thanks, that was what I expected and hoped - reassuring to get confirmation.

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Thanks for the help and advice.

Basically I have now set up on gmail for both myself and the separate one for my lady-wife, transferred over those older e-mails that I want to keep - the Forwarding went faster than I had expected.

Today, I sent out Blind-copy to our respective Contacts, with the Undeliverable ones being useful for cutting down the new Gmail Contacts Lists.

Still got a few sites where I have to change my email Address inside them, as opposed to Username.

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Working through the Contacts Lists gave me some idea of how many still have to go through the exercise, to cover those closures.

Have bought a domain & email hosting from 1&1 two days ago . Have tested it during their 30 day free trial period and it seems to do everything I want, particularly multiple email addys, a la Orange, which I couldn't do on GMail etc.

Now busy changing my (exclusive) email addys at the sites I'm registered at. Am now finding quite a few that no longer exist & so I can scrub their records (welcome emails).

Edited by XRaySpeX (Thu 23-Feb-17 05:57:36)

Thanks - must take a closer look.

In reply to a post by XRaySpeX:

Have bought a domain & email hosting from 1&1 two days ago . Have tested it during their 30 day free trial period and it seems to do everything I want, particularly multiple email addys, a la Orange, which I couldn't do on GMail etc.

Thanks very much for the info, I have now signed up with 1&1 mail.com for a free email account.

It's incredible the selection of FREE email addresses you can choose from...

https://www.mail.com/mail/campaign/1654846-mailcom-y...

1&1 mail.com works with Windows Live mail, it was easy to setup.
Retrieve your e-mail from your mail.com mailbox with Windows Live Mail...
https://support.mail.com/premium/pop3/livemail.html

Edited by deleted (Fri 24-Feb-17 13:43:15)

Ah, OK, you don't get your own domain & therefore multiple email addys, which is what I was after. So I'm paying 1&1 about £15 pa for one.

You only get 1 email addy & so is no diff from free GMail etc.