Any free email forwarding services?

[Imzadi]

I got rid of AOL using the info from this recent thread here. Canceling AOL But AOL is still keeping my email accounts open so people can send emails to them. From what people have told me, if I log back into AOL, either accidently or on purpose, AOL will start charging me again. (Which is why they won't cancel my email account. )

I've notified people of my email address change, but many of them didn't mark it in their email address books as I told them to. Instead, they later call me & say they don't have my new email address & have sent an email to my OLD AOL addy.

Since they aren't getting that MAILER-DAEMON bounce back announcement that their emails aren't going through, they are assuming it's okay to keep sending to my old email addy & that I have been reading them.

Isn't there some email forwarding sites that will simply intercept &forward my emails from AOL before it gets to my AOL inbox?

 

[JudicialTyranny]

Not possible. If the e-mail goes to @aol.com, then only AOL can forward them somewhere else.

Otherwise, if this were possible, what's to stop someone from grabbing any or all AOL addresses (or any other address) and forwarding them somewhere else?

The e-mail "forwarding" services out there require you to still be able to log into your old e-mail account. They periodically log into the account and grab the e-mail and forward it to your new address and optionally send a "new address" notification to the sender. If AOL won't let you log in anymore, then the service can't log in to get the e-mail either.

Or if you own the domain name, you can point the MX (mail exchanger) record to a different mail server.

 

[Imzadi]

Ahh, thanks for the clarification. I would have hated to have thought I found a service which is capable of forwarding my emails, and not understand they are logging into my AOL account - on my behalf - then AOL uses THAT as a reason to start charging me all over again.