mweb email address - sigh

Status
Not open for further replies.
Praeses

Praeses

Executive Member
Joined
Oct 29, 2005
Messages
5,058
Reaction score
277
Location
Bloemfontein
My dad is stuck paying R300 per month for a 3GB account which isn't NEARLY enough for 4 people in one household...all thanks to mweb's email. My question is...is there ANY way to keep the old address and move to another ISP, without paying extra to keep the address? It's an address of an old ISP called pixie which mweb dominated years ago...which emails gets forwarded from, to my "actual" mweb email address. So people send emails to the @pixie.co.za email address but the actual email address of my mweb account is @mweb.co.za. Does that maybe make the situation a bit easier? Or won't that help?

My dad can't really convert to a gmail or any other email address because hundreds of companies email him and it was hard enough to get the companies to start sending him emails in the first place.

Any help would be appreciated.

Regards
Praeses

PS: I once sent mweb an email asking them if they'll ever drop their ISP prices since other ISPs are DIRT cheap compared to them...they didn't respond. sigh
 
You'd need to ask MWEB nicely to transfer the email address. It is very unlikely that they would.
PS: I once sent mweb an email asking them if they'll ever drop their ISP prices since other ISPs are DIRT cheap compared to them...they didn't respond. sigh
Click to expand...
Keeping in mind that your emails go through to a techie/support desk operator, what exactly did you expect them to reply with?
 
Just move... Make a vcard with the new email address and send out a "I've changed my email address" email to everyone plus a change of address card thru the mail if ur worried.

Has ur old man never moved house in his life before?

Like Nike says.... just do it.
 
Ask mweb if there isn't some amount you can pay them per month just for the email address. Even if they charge R30/month it will still be worth the it.
 
M-Web is seriously overpriced, everyone knows this yet people still support them. /sigh

The sad part is when people want to leave, they were also smart enough to use @mweb.co.za or ISP e-mail. I know way too many people that have done this and is currently stuck with them because of this.

Goodluck with your attempted move, and my best advise is just cancel and let everyone know asap that the e-mail has changed.

I have a hosting account I use with mrg.za.net for my personal mail, so atleast no ISP owns my @mrg.za.net addresses :) Either move to gmail etc or register a domain, .co.za is R50 per year or .za.net is free. Hosting can also be found for free, or a really low cost.

I am getting carried away now :)
 
There is a limited [-]r79[/-] r70 per month account that you can request.

My advice is to take that for a few months in the mean time set the existing account to auto-reply with your dads new details and auto-forward to a shiny new gmail account.

After a few months he'll be able to tell who hasnt been paying attention and deal with them on a case by case basis.
 
Last edited:
I agree with bwana v.22, I had Mweb, and I was using a "@mweb.co.za" email address, so was my dad. In Feb We started using our gmail addresses and started notifying contacts that the email address was changed. By around May there were only one or two companys emailing on the mweb address but by July we stopped receiving emails on the Mweb account and cancelled it. Just remember that you need a calender months notice to cancel the mweb account.

The R70 option gives you access to you email and three hours of dial-up a month. So convert to the R70 option for about three months and signup wih another isp.
 
It's nearly impossible to get over a hundred medical schemes to care enough to have your email address changed...My dad said that it took him months just to get them to email him in the first place. Most are quite pathetic like lots of other things in SA.

And yeah, R70/month...not really worth it. A R30/month decrease (when using webafrica 3gb + mweb email) isn't worth all the effort.

Anyways, thanks for the input...guess we're stuck until my dad decides to go through the effort to have his addy changed and try to let the med schemes change the addy.
 
Thats what happens when you decide to use an ISP's email account. Your dad should still start weaning himself away from mweb as it can all be done in the background. Gmail is free.
 
TonyA said:
Doesn't Mweb have a facility where you can automatically forward emails to another address?
Click to expand...
Yeah - in their airmail. Thats why I suggested setting up an auto-forward as well as auto responding. All background stuff - set and forget.
 
Yeah - the only reason why we even have that r70 dial up is for the iPass service but even now hotel connectivity is becoming much more commonplace so we're looking to drop them all together.
 
Some months back a forumite posted a critical posting about people and companies using an @ISP.co.za email address. His comments were along the line of "Why are South Africans so scared / ignorant about registering domain names?" and why would they want to advertise the ISP for them by using the @ISP.co.za format?

Ever since then I have been looking at adverts and billboards and it absolutely amazes me that the vast majority of small businesses have email address like [email protected] or [email protected].

Especially in light of this thread where someone is prepared to pay an ISP two or three times more per month than to simply spend R50 a year and buy their own domain name.

I mean come on! R50 a year!!!!!!!! So for R50.00 a year people are willing to be locked into an expensive ISP because they want their email addresses. Pathetic!

Although one must then include the email hosting at about R19 a month.
 
Only reason people use their isp's emails is because they don't know any better. They don't know of or think of the issues they will encounter if they want to move.
 
@Telkomhater - I agree - there really isnt any excuse for someone not to establish their own presence on the internet especially if they have a business. Credibility pretty much goes out the window these days without at the very least a personalised domain.

The real shame is when people who really should know better arent willing to expend even the slightest effort in order to claim their stake. Even a gradual shift over a couple months can be almost entirely automated, completely painless, and once the shift is made the domain is yours for as long as you want it regardless of who your ISP is. By all means continue using that ISP but people should be doing so on their own terms.

@ TonyA - It's about as complicated as finding a host and registering a name. For something as simple as email I would happily point people in the general direction of the likes of godaddy.com's dirt cheap, no frills, email solutions. As your needs change so can your hosting.

Currently I pay $8 per month to host 7 domains excluding the various annual registrar charges of course but then I have .com's, .net's, .us', co.za, za.net's . . . . all running off one (powweb) account.
 
It's real simple to get a "@mydomain.com" email address. Just pay for the domain and get the hosting for free from google. Get 2 GB storage and all the benefits of Gmail without the "@gmail.com". All you need is the domain, and u need to add MX Records for google, Some registratrs will do the settings for you. If you would like more info just PM your email address and I'll send you my registrars (agent) contact details, I'll also help you sign up the with google.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top
Sign up to the MyBroadband newsletter
X