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Compiled by Dave Hafke, Tom Ponzo, Paul Silverman and Lori L. Bloomer
In these ever-more-mobile times, keeping track of changing addresses and phone numbers-even your own-can be a chore. And it's often impossible to hang on to your e-mail address, especially if it's company-issued. But you can make sure your e-mail locale doesn't change for a good long time, following you faithfully through all your travels.
Check out lifetime e-mail service providers, like Bigfoot for Life, NetAddress and pobox.com (see "No Place Like Home" for the addresses). These providers give you e-mail access for a nominal fee, or in many cases, for free. They supply you with a permanent "mail drop" address, and then forward your mail from there to any other valid e-mail address. This way, you can be sure your messages will catch up with you, wherever you are.
Some services allow you to send mail to more than one account, which is handy if you are in transition between two mail accounts.Other providers include IdentityNet at http://www.identity.net/, Valise e-mail service at http://www.valise.com/, CyberStop at http://www.cyberstop.com/and AkaMail at http://akamail.com/. There are also many others to choose from.
If you want a custom, or "vanity," e-mail address, try the selections at VanityMail on the Web at http://www.vanitymail.com/, or surf over to the Address Company at http://www.peas.com. For a monthly fee, you can get a distinctive e-mail address like Jane@Doe.com.
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These lifetime e-mail address providers let you set up a customizable address that will follow you no matter where you roam on the Internet.
http://www.bigfoot.com/ Bigfoot for Life is a bare-bones-but free and reliable-service. Simply register your primary e-mail account and designate a unique Bigfoot user name (for example, you@bigfoot.com). Any mail sent to the new address will be forwarded automatically to the e-mail account of your choice.
http://netaddress.usa.net/ NetAddress offers three levels of service and pricing. You get one forwarding address and one auto-delete function free. For $30 a year, you receive another forwarding function, folder storage, and support for Exchange, Eudora or Pegasus. And $36 a year gets you Web-browser compatibility.
http://www.pobox.com/ For $15 a year, pobox.com will provide three e-mail aliases, plus automatic URL redirection. The first three months of service are free. If you decide to remain with pobox, you're automatically entered into the service's white pages directory.
http://www.netbox.com In addition to basic e-mail routing services, NetBox offers MailBot Autoresponders that send specified messages upon user request, ftp and Web site hosting and redirection, plus the ability to manage messages directly on NetBox's server.
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