Oh, Email

I changed my email address recently. I set it up so all the email from my old address is sent to my new address, and a notification is sent to the original sender notifying them of the change.

This resulted in a long overnight conversation with a no-reply type email address from my hosting company. They sent me an email to my old account that I wasn’t supposed to respond to, and my old email faithfully sent a notification back to them informing them about the change of emails. They replied with an automated message saying that they don’t answer email sent to this address. My old email again responded with the same message automatically.

This went back and forth between both emails all night last night, a battle of the auto-responders. What’s really ironic is that the company that hosts my old email address is also the company that keeps trying to send me that notification. The company is Bluehost, a really great webhosting company.

I find this whole situation pretty hysterical. It’s no one’s fault, really, and it doesn’t bother me a bit. My opinion of Bluehost is still held pretty high, but I can’t help but laugh at the ridiculousness of the situation.