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New email to cover married name

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Ineednature · 18/04/2025 10:27

Hi all,

Question is basically the above! I have a yahoo email account and the max 3 yahoo addresses using it - one based on my maiden name and two based on my first married name, .co.uk and .com. So far so good, however after being widowed 15 years ago I am married again, have taken my husbands surname (so me, him and smalls all match) and am now out of yahoo addresses I can add.

Not a big problem in itself, but the confusion I get when dealing with people who I give my married name to, and then my email address doesn't match. I hadn't imagined it would be such a problem, but it seems to send some people into a tailspin lol. I'm getting less and less patience for it, inclined towards saying it doesn't bloody matter, move on!!! However, I'd like to stop having to have this conversation.

I know I could just get another email provider and have it linked into my yahoo, but my experience doing this with my work Gmail one has shown me that sometimes the Gmail messages don't show in my yahoo mailbox. This makes the whole set up a bit useless. Chances of me regularly checking an increasing list of logins also slim, I want less complexity in my life now more!!

Opening it up to your brains, other than repeatedly telling people to get over it and move on, I'd like to just dodge this entirely by having an email address that doesn't cause such confusion.

Help me please!

OP posts:
FidosMum84 · 18/04/2025 10:53

Set up a gmail and import all of them into outlook?

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