CHANGING MY EMAIL ADDRESS

If you are using Microsoft Exchange, you will need to contact your Microsoft Exchange IT support.

Firstly create your new email address. If you use a free mail service, try a Gmail account. Gmail is proving to be quire resilient. If you are using a POP3 account (Outlook) you will need to ask your IT sport to create the new account for you and pass on the details to you.

Next, send individual emails to all your colleagues stating that you have had your email address compromised and you have chosen to start a new email address. Let them know they should ignore any emails they receive from your old email address as someone else is using it. Advise them to delete any emails from your old address and be careful of anything suspicious.

Next – you probably used your old email address for registering things like warranties, log on for shops, banking and so on. You will need to contact all of them advising them that you have a new email address and to use it in future.

Don’t stop reading legitimate email from your old address, keep checking it to make sure you haven’t missed anybody and to verify your colleagues are actually using your new email address. This overlapping period must take at least one year. This is to accommodate annual reminders for things like rates, car tax etc.

Neither course of action is ideal but this is an extreme problem which needs an extreme solution.