Today email has become a way of life. If you leave home for even a few days without access to your account, the email can pile up quickly. You may also miss out on an important piece of information. The problem is that when you are away from your Canadian home your email does not always work properly. So what can you do to have email working everywhere, all the time?
Receiving email is not normally a problem. You run into problems when you are trying to send email. If you know the server configuration for the hotel you are in or for the Internet Service Provider (IPS) you are using while wintering down south, you can make the necessary changes and it should work. Sometimes though it is difficult to find the configuration information. And some IPSs just won’t allow sending email via their server. So now what? Make the switch to an email provider that works everywhere.
I have used TELUS for years and before that I was on Shaw and before that I was on ……. you get my meaning. And every time I changed providers and got a new email address I had to notify everybody, change all my account information with banks, the cable company, utility companies and credit card companies. It was a real head ache.
About three years ago I established an email account with Google (Gmail) for both my wife and myself and started changing my email address for the last time. Email providers like Google and Hotmail will send and receive from anywhere you can get an internet connection. They keep a copy on their server so that you can use their webmail feature when you need it and Google and Hotmail accounts allow for huge files to be delivered and sent that will not result in a “Your mailbox is full” message being sent out. Best of all, they are FREE.
I did not cancel my TELUS email account. I left everything in place. I notified everyone in my address book of the change and then started on the Bank, Utility and myriad of places I receive email from. I am on electronic billing with all of my utilities companies and so had to log on and change my profile to reflect my new email address. Once I had them all notified I sat back and waited.
It took a couple of months for everything to get changed over. Every once in a while I would receive an email in my TELUS folder and would have to send who ever it was another change notification. But I haven’t received anything in my TELUS folder except their bill for a couple of years now.
So give it a try. You have nothing to loose and much to gain.
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