[billyg1957]

I will be moving soon, and for the last bunch of years have been using a Road Runner email address as my primary email. This will have to change. I have already set up a Gmail account, which I can use either as primary for going forward or temporarily during the transition.

I would like to get some opinions on the best way to notify people to start using the new address. I am thinking that sending out a bulk email to all in my outlook contacts list, followed by an auto responder on all inbound Road Runner might work.

What have others done?

[1002richards]

Sounds OK to me 'cos if you notified your outlook contacts from your new gmail address then that notification might end up in their spam folder as your new address wouldn't be recognised.
After sending the notification to your contacts you can then export those contacts to your gmail account so that their replies don't end up in your spam folder.
I'll be intersted in what others have to say as well...

Richard

[cwwozniak]

Unless everybody in your contacts list know seach other, you might want to consider putting their addresses in the Bcc line and just putting your soon to be old e-mail address in the "To" line of the notification messages. This will prevent each recipient from seeing who else is getting the message.

You might also want to check Road Runner's outgoing message policies. Some ISP's mail servers block, as suspected spam, any outgoing messages that have more than a certain number of recipients.

[billyg1957]

Thanks for the replies. I checked with RR and have a grasp on the limits. I definitely was planning to use the bcc for the reasons you mention. Thanks again.