The Internet

Email accounts aren’t easy to get rid of - they store information you might need in the future, and the fact that most of them are free means it’s easier to just keep it and go on using it. I’ve still got my 12-year-old Hotmail account, even if I mostly use it as a send-your-spam-here account. If you’re ready to make the switch to Gmail from, say,  AOL or another service, the good folks at CNET note that Google provides a tool to help you move everything over to a new Gmail account. You’ll be able to take advantage of all the features and convenience of a Gmail account with everything you had at the old account.

Even if you don’t want to give it up now, you can point your account to Gmail and run everything from there. Choices abound.

When people first started getting their iPhones, I got a lot of requests to help people link up their Hotmail accounts to their phones.  Sadly at the time, this was a no-go.  Hotmail didn’t want people to access their accounts outside of the web client (with all of the ads and such), and so you were stuck.  For awhile, it was even impossible to get Hotmail using Microsoft’s Outlook client (some accounts were grandfathered in, but the support was cut off in the past couple of installations).  So what were Hotmail users to do?

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Whether you’re leaving school or a job, eventually you’ll have to give up an e-mail address.  It’s always best if you get some kind of warning, but that period of time may differ depending on the institution or the company (and the circumstances of your departure).  No matter what, there are a few steps you can take to make sure you don’t lose any e-mail information.

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