Another e-mail address, what should you think about?

If you change provider, you must create a new e-mail address. Unlike 06 numbers, email addresses cannot be preserved. Don’t forget to pass on your new email address and change it with important authorities.

Let everyone know that your email address has changed. The easiest way to do this is in a message to your entire address book. Make sure you put all addresses in the BCC box. Then the e-mail addresses are not visible to the recipients.

In addition to friends and acquaintances, there are many organizations that use your email address. This means that you have to adjust it yourself. Make a list of all important authorities. Think of DigiD, the Tax Authorities, but also SeniorWeb, the ANWB, your energy supplier, health insurer and general practitioner.

If you have subscribed to a newsletter from SeniorWeb or from other organizations, remember to change your e-mail address here as well. Otherwise you will no longer receive a newsletter after some time.

Change your email address at SeniorWeb as follows:

• SeniorWeb members change their email address via My SeniorWeb or via the link change e-mail address in the newsletter itself.
• Non-members change their email address via the link change e-mail address in the newsletter itself.

With some providers, an email address remains active for a few months after cancellation. Inquire about this with your own provider. Have all incoming emails automatically forwarded to your new address. You can read how to set this up with your own provider.

If you have a provider that will keep your email address alive for a few more months, set up an auto-reply. Notify in that message that the email address is old and will no longer work in a while. State your new address. You can read how to set up an automatic reply from your own provider.

Anyone who creates an account with Gmail from Google or Outlook.com from Microsoft takes an email address for life. This e-mail address is separate from your internet provider and therefore does not disappear if you change provider. Whatever changes in your digital activities, you will never have to change your address again. And in Gmail, you can also easily set up existing addresses, such as those from your current Internet plan. Read about the pros and cons in the article ‘Whether or not provider mail’.