Help over 50 spam and vile emails coming every day since the new BT email started.

[jennie77]

@rbz5416 I have had my bt email for over 25 years and have friends all over the world. To change it would be really difficult.

[jennie77]

@landie57 I hope BT read this and do something quickly!

[rbz5416]

It wouldn't be as difficult as you may imagine.

• Create new email address.
• Send batch email to all of your contacts advising the change.
• Start sending all future email from the new address, possibly with a reminder of the new address in the signature.
• Continue to monitor the BT address & any time a message arrives, reply from the new address with a reminder of the address change.
• You can also set up a rule in the BT account to forward everything to the new address.
• If you use an email client, you can have both accounts within the same client.

You may be pleasantly surprised at how quickly the BT account fizzles out.

[Flipperty]

In the last week I have been absolutely inundated with spam emails - has something changed?

[Flipperty]

I have just posted the same problem - started a few days back - so annoying

[Flipperty]

Exactly the same for me - strangely we have four Bt email addresses and it is only happenening to one

[andydenyer]

It's happening to two of the three BT email addresses we have. I keep marking them as spam and blocking the domains they are coming from, but they are still coming through.

[WSH]

The system I’ve worked for years is one email address for friends and family.  A second one for business, banks, utilities etc.  And a third one for any muppets that feel they must have an address before you can use their website etc.  Suffice it so say, the third one gets replaced periodically.

I don’t use BT mail but this system has always worked well for me with the providers I do use.

[Andy_N]

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@rbz5416wrote:

It wouldn't be as difficult as you may imagine.

• Create new email address.
• Send batch email to all of your contacts advising the change.
• Start sending all future email from the new address, possibly with a reminder of the new address in the signature.
• Continue to monitor the BT address & any time a message arrives, reply from the new address with a reminder of the address change.
• You can also set up a rule in the BT account to forward everything to the new address.
• If you use an email client, you can have both accounts within the same client.

You may be pleasantly surprised at how quickly the BT account fizzles out.

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In addition, which can take a little extra time - is to change all website logins that currently use your btinternet email address as the login ID.

[rbz5416]

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@Andy_Nwrote:

In addition, which can take a little extra time - is to change all website logins that currently use your btinternet email address as the login ID.

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Fair point, but that could be done each time you log onto a site after the change, rather than having to do them all at once. Although the BT email address will remain live, so can continue to be used if in a hurry. Just like with a PAYG mobile, just need to send the occasional email from the BT address to the new one to keep it live.