Keep email when you change providers
Which addresses survive changing internet company, and which quietly stop.
An address ending in your internet company’s name usually stops working when you leave them. One from Gmail or Outlook does not.
What comes after the at sign is the name of whoever holds your mailbox.
Key points
- An address from your internet company usually ends when the service does
- A free address from a mail provider moves with you
What to remember
- Set up forwarding before the switch.
- A free address belongs to you, not to the cable.
Try this
Look at what follows the at sign in your own address. If it names your internet company, open a spare.
Practice: Keep email when you change providers. Your first lesson is free, with no account or card; the rest are part of a Lantern plan. Interactive lessons require JavaScript.