Keep your email address when changing providers - you need to know that

When changing providers, keeping the email address as well as the phone number is the wish of many. We'll tell you here if that's possible.

Change of provider: Take your email address and all contacts with you

First of all, the bad news: If you want to change your email provider, it doesn't work as easily as porting number.

• In principle, you cannot take your email address with you to another provider. However, this should not deter you from moving.
• You have the option of changing the email address and still taking all contacts relatively comfortably and without loss. To do this, use an email forwarding.
• Almost every email provider offers the option to forward the incoming mail to another address.
• After you have created the email account with the new provider, set up the forwarding of the emails with your previous provider. All messages will then automatically go to your new mailbox.
• Your contacts don't see that the mail has been forwarded. Therefore, you create a reply to your new e-mail account for the incoming mail, similar to an out of office message. In it, you provide your new email address, along with the request that you only send the emails there in the future.
• With this procedure you will be able to take all contacts with you relatively easily and after a few months you will give up your old email address.
• Tip: If you do not want a copy of the forwarded emails to remain in your old account, have them deleted after sending them on. With many email providers you will find a corresponding option in the settings.

We use the example of T-Online, Freenet, GMX and Web.de to describe how to set up email forwarding.