Shorten an existing email address

[Gerry626]

Is it possible to shorten an existing email address?

[gg30340 · Accepted solution]

No.

[Gerry626]

Thanks for your quick response. G

[Paul608085]

@Gerry626 

Actually, it is possible in one scenario that I can think of:

I opened a Google Mail account a very long time ago. At the time, the address was me@googlemail.com

Some years later, gmail addresses became available, that are interchangeable with the googlemail address with the same prefix.

So, an email sent to either me@googlemail.com or me@gmail.com will both reach me, in the same mailbox.

***EDIT***

What exactly are you trying to achieve?

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[erikme]

Who knows, maybe in a couple of years Google will add another domain for addresses

[Gerry626]

My existing email features my forename.surname@btinternet.com. 

I want to shorten the bit before @btinternet.com

[licquorice]

It would just become a different email address. It would be like saying you wanted to change your postal address from 123 high street to 12 high street.