Email forwarding service??

['97ventureowner]

When FiOS finally gets installed in my house this week,(hopefully, Verizon has issues - don't get me started,) I will probably have to go with one of their featured providers. I believe Yahoo is one of them and MSN is the other. My question is this: Is there a service available on the internet that can send my email presently going to my old dialup ISP's account to my new account with whomever I will choose? What I'm trying to say is when you move to a new address, you go to the Post Office and fillout the info on a card. The Post Office will then forward your mail from your old addres to your new one. Is there a service available to do the same with email addresses? If so can you make any reccomendations or tell me who to stay away from. I thought I had seen something lie this a few years back and did a Google search on "email forwarding services" but really didn't get any useful info. Most offered to send your emails to a portable device and not a new address. I plan on sending emails with the new address to most of the people and businesses I have dealt with in the past, but I can't remember all of them in the past 4 1/2 years, so I'm sure I might miss a few. If I could find a service that I could use for at least a year, I'm sure I could cover all the bases.Thanks for any info you can give on this matter.

[Gohan Ryu]

My ISP (SBCYahoo) offers an email forwarding option - are you sure yours doesn't?

Also my old ISP (Earthlink) forwarded emails to my new email address for 1 year after I cancelled my Earthlink account.

['97ventureowner]

The guy from Verizon just showed up to take another look at the house and I mentioned about the service. He said to call Verizon as he thinks they may offer such a service. I will call and see. With your service do they notify the sender of your new address so that they can change their address book or do they just forward it to your new address and not contact the sender with the new info. I'd really like it if the service would let the sender(s) know of the new address sso they can make the appropriate changes on their end.

[Gohan Ryu]

I don't have a service to automatically notify senders of my new address, but my ISP has a feature called Vacation Response. It lets you create an email message that will be sent automatically to anyone who emails you. It is intended to let you notify senders that you are on vacation and won't respond to their email until you return, but you can also use it to notify senders of your new email address.

[Oz]

You can setup an "out of office autoreply / vacation" type message, either in your email client, usually your ISPs webmail access offers the same feature. Just set this up first, then get your ISP to forward all your mail.

['97ventureowner]

I called Verizon today on another matter concerning my FiOS service and mentioned about the email forwarding service. I was told that if I selected the Yahoo option (instead of MSN) they have such a service called "True Switch" which forwards my emails from my old address to the new one, AND they will also notify the senders of my new address. Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for all the replies. Now if I can get Verizon back here to install my FiOs service I'll be all set...