Internet service provider Breathe Networks Ltd (BNL) has applied to be struck off the UK Register of Companies. On Monday July 21st the firm moved its 25,000 customers to another email provider without asking them first. As a result, it’s understood that around half of BNL customers lost their address books, archived mail and folders.

Spider Networks Ltd, which provided email services to BNL, wrote to thousands of customers offering them a way to get their information back – but possibly at the cost of changing their email address.

This can be a real pain! You can tell all your friends in your addressbook, but what about the Bank, your Mobile Phone company, Amazon etc.?

ContactClean can help you sort all this out. If you register we can help notify businesses and contacts of your new address – but only with your consent, we always let you know who’s looking for you before we contact them.

EDITOR NOTES:

ContactClean is an Email Change of Address (ECOA) service to help people keep in touch. We provide services to enable address books and contact lists to be kept up to date. This is achieved through partnerships with Internet and Email Services Providers and free services to individuals. (ContactClean homepage)

This is particularly useful if you’re interested in using Google’s new switch to GMail capability.

Sign up for an account if you don’t have one then select My Account -> Remote Update

You can also use it to keep your Thunderbird address book up to date

ISPA UK was established in 1995 and promotes competition, self-regulation and the development of the Internet industry.

As a trade association, membership is voluntary but the companies who choose to become members of ISPA agree to abide by the ISPA UK Code. ISPA members’ allegiance to the Code means that consumers can view the ISPA UK logo as a mark of commitment to good business practice.

The add-on can be downloaded from:

• Squirrelmail ContactClean Plugin page

This software is offered as Open Source: we hope it can be used as a useful reference for other email, CRM and contact list management tool authors in providing modules for accessing the ContactClean database.

EDITOR NOTES:

SquirrelMail is a standards-based webmail package written in PHP. It has all the functionality you would want from an email client, including strong MIME support, address books, and folder manipulation. It is available free as open source and has around 200,000 installations worldwide. (SquirrelMail homepage…)

ContactClean is an Email Change of Address (ECOA) service to help people keep in touch. We provide services to enable address books and contact lists to be kept up to date. This is achieved through partnerships with Internet and Email Services Providers and free services to individuals. (ContactClean homepage…) ]]> http://www.contactclean.com/news/2007/08/contactclean-add-on-for-squirrelmail/feed 0 http://www.contactclean.com/news/2007/07/contact-clean-sponsers-the-british-steam-speed-challenge http://www.contactclean.com/news/2007/07/contact-clean-sponsers-the-british-steam-speed-challenge#comments Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:58:56 +0000 Ian http://www.contactclean.com/news/2007/07/contact-clean-sponsers-the-british-steam-speed-challenge ContactClean Ltd. is happy to sponsor, in some small way, the British Steam Car Challenge. The level of inspired inventiveness, technical excellence and slight eccentricity shown by the Steam Speed Car is greatly applauded by the Directors of ContactClean (who feel they may be of kindred spirit perhaps!) – what other kind of enterprise would have a Nose Fund?

We would encourage all entrepreneurs to join in the fun at the British Steam Car Appeal website.

EDITOR NOTES:

ContactClean is an Email Change of Address (ECOA) service to help people keep in touch. We provide services to enable address books and contact lists to be kept up to date. This is achieved through partnerships with Internet and Email Services Providers and free services to individuals. (ContactClean homepage…)

The ContactClean logo, like all graphics on this site, was illustrated by Your Print (UK)