Do forwarding settings on BTYahoo survive the migr...

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Hi there - can anyone who has already been "migrated" answer me 2 simple questions please? I haven't yet been migrated and am not looking forward to it - and I am quite experienced with the BT webmail and pop3/smtp systems over many years but at the moment they seem to be making it up as they go along.
I'm just getting ready to sort out our family email by setting up ways of avoiding being dependent on having to get access to  BTMail should it all go pear-shaped (why should I possibly think that...?).
1. If I have forwarding (to a third party email provider) set up on my "myname"ATbtinternet.com address in BTYahoo settings, will the BTYahoo forwarding arrangement, to a 3rd party email provider address, survive the migration process or will I have to access the new BTMail web interface and set up forwarding again?
I'm expecting that I WILL have to set it up again and am just dreading discovering that I can't access the webmail interface after migration.
2. I already have a MY BT ID and password associated with my phone/TV/billing/broadband (which uses my primary email address and a special MYBT password - different from my primary email password. With that I can access my billing information but not any emails.
When I log in to MY BT and click the Email button on the web page, at the moment, I then have to enter my normal BTYahoo address and password to get to the BTYahoo webmail interface. Fine. that's what I'm used to.
When the dreaded migration occurs, and I get the promised message to "change your password" - is it the "MY BT" password that I change, or the password for each and every email address in my account?
Will each email address get asked to change their password, or just me as the primary account holder?
Advice from someone who has "been there and done that" much appreciated - so I can then spare my family unnecessary pain...
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

dilosec wrote:
Try this: Log into MyBT, and goto this link: https://www.bt.com/appsconsumeraccount/secure/manageEmailAccounts.do?siteArea=con.mya
Does it allow you to create a new email account? If yes, I would create a new account and start moving over some BTYahoo stuff like the disposable email addresses...
About the 'immigration' - for each email account migration, password is asked for to reclaim account from BTYahoo into BTMail - password change is optional, but I clicked on 'change password' and changed all mine (main account and sub-accounts) - changing the main account password in effect sync'ed it with BT ID password (i.e. same password for BT ID and main account). If 'deported' back to BTYahoo, use the old passwords.
Thanks dilosec - that's really helpful.
I already created a couple of new accounts the other day, so I would have2 new accounts to use as suggested by you over on https://community.bt.com/t5/Email/Disposable-addresses-on-BT-Mail/m-p/1330397#M24465. They are now sitting quietly waiting for the changeover, and have forwarding set up for now, in the hope they don't accumulate any content on the web interface.
As for the password explanation - THANKS - that is so much clearer than any of the official BT stuff I have read up to now - including the information about the password change not actually being compulsory, and about it being the individual passwords for the accounts and NOT the password for BT ID's.
Which "clever" person thought up the idea of getting everyone to change each email account password immediately on migration only to find out that it wouldn't work when they migrated us BACK again to Yahoo! People as clever as that ought to be promoted further up the organisation where they can do less harm...
Seems to me that if they had ignored that particular step until migration had occurred and was settled down and working, they could have avoided an awful lot of problems for customers. Then if they ever got the migration sorted, they could send us all an email a month or two later, and told us to change our passwords THEN.
It seems it would also make sense, in the midst of so much going wrong, to avoid all unnecessary changes - including the business of creating new BT IDs for family members etc. I understand why people want them, but it really would make sense to wait until everything else has settled down and been proven to work before messing about with BT IDs and BT ID passwords, as WELL as email passwords. How do people keep track of THAT lot, especially when they aren't always sure whether they are on BTYahoo, BT/OpenWave or back on BTYahoo again?
All I need to know now, is whether forwarding settings survive migration to WaveGoodbyeToYourEmail OpenWave