How to Send a Notification of Email Change

People change their email addresses for various reasons, such as losing a school email account or changing to a different Internet service provider. If you have changed your email address, you need to do is send a notification of email change. Sending this will help your contacts adjust to your new email address with minimal problems.

Things You'll Need

• Desktop or Web-based email program
• Access to your new email account

Instructions

1. Make a list of each person you keep in contact with, as well as their email address.

2. Open up your email program or go to your email provider's website and log in. Create a new email message using your new email address.

3. Write an email stating that you have changed your email address. The subject line should include your name and the statement that you are changing your email, such as "John Smith change of email address."

4. Write in the body who you are and what your new email address will be.

5. Put the email address of every person in the list you made in Step 1 in the "To:" section of your email and send it.

Tips & Warnings

• Consider using an email changing service or using an email directory to make sending an email easier (see References).

Resources

• Read this Article in Spanish
• Trueswitch
• MailLocate