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NAS.com migrations
Options:
  1. Choose to get a new openaccess.org email account (e.g. yourname@openaccess.org). If you act now, we are more likely to be able to secure the same username as your NAS email account. e.g. username@nas.com would become username@openaccess.org. Please call us to begin.
  2. Choose to get your own website and personalized email address. You may have an email address like yourname@yourname.com or something@creative.com. There are many advantages to securing your own domain name (e.g. yourname.com); your email address will be portable and not locked into any one particular company's decisions, you have access regardless of who supplies your Internet service, and you can keep it forever.
If you choose to transition to a personalized domain name, OpenAccess would be pleased to host your personalized email account. For instance, www.yourfamilyname.com will give you access to yourname@yourfamilyname.com. Our web hosting platform also provides ease of use to manage your own email accounts, forwarders, auto reply behavior, and more. You can learn more about our features at: http://www.openaccess.org/index.php?section=231.

Forward your old email address to your new one
Once you have another email account, we can set up email to forward to your new address until August 31st. For example, if we set up a forwarder and a message is sent to you@nas.com, it will be copied and sent to your third party address automatically. If you would like to set up forwarding yourself, please log into http://home.nas.com/webmail and select "Forwarding Options" from the small icons along bottom row. Next click "Add Forwarder" then enter the email address that you want to forward messages to. Last, click "Add Forwarder" at the bottom and your forwarding service will begin immediately.

Contact us as soon as you can
Please contact OpenAccess as soon as possible so we can assist you in setting up your new email address. You may email us for help at support@openaccess.org. Please include details about the new email address that you want and we can help you get started.

Details for how to transition to your new email address
  1. Decide your preference for a new email address such as @openaccess.org, @yourdomain.com, or a third party domain.
  2. Begin using your new address. Allow time for the transition. If possible, give your contacts at least a few weeks of overlap time so you can handle any messages that come to the old account, while still "breaking in" the new one.
    1. Contact us to set up a temporary forwarder for your nas.com email address. Please provide the desired destination address. This forwarder will send a copy of all messages, normally sent to your nas.com address, to the destination address. The forwarder will remain active through August 31, 2015. That way you won’t have to check the old NAS.com account, and you will automatically receive messages that arrive during the overlap period, through August 31, 2015.
    2. In addition to a forwarder, we can set up an auto-responder to notify everyone who emails you that you have a new email address. To avoid needing an auto-responder, you can also proactively send an email to friends and contacts in your address book informing them of your new email address. Remember to ask them to please delete the old address and replace it with the new one.
    3. Change the “reply to” address in your NAS.com account. During the overlap period you’ll no doubt continue responding to mail that comes to the old nas.com address. Depending on the service and/or mail client you use, you may be able to change the “reply to” address in the settings. Make it your new address, so that whenever some replies to an e-mail, it will automatically go to your new address.
  3. Send out a mass email, using BCC (please do not use "To" or "CC" as every recipient will see the other recipients, which can aid spammers or harm others' privacy) to all of your contacts telling them of the new email address.
  4. Update your email address at your online accounts and mailing lists such as Ebay, Amazon, Apple ID/iTunes, PSE, Cascade Natural Gas, your insurance providers, etc.
  5. Update your website, and business cards with your new email address.
  6. On August 31st, 2015 your NAS.com email address will no longer work.
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