BT Internet closing their free email accounts

[EddieM]

Damn, I've had mine for over 12 years, that's gonna be a pain, it's my main addy.

 

[ajrtd]

Balls! We have just dumped bt after 29 years and moved sky and were told we could keep our bt yahoo accounts

 

[JBR]

I don't understand. Is this a business thing?

I've never paid for my e-mail account, other than paying for the broadband connection.

 

[EddieM]

I don't understand. Is this a business thing?

I've never paid for my e-mail account, other than paying for the broadband connection.

Guess so... that is really gonna be annoying

 

[gregers]

supanet and a few others went the same way a few years back.

 

[empip]

I thought 'twas just a split with Yahoo! ??

We're changing BT's portal and email services
http://tinyurl.com/ltg5zc3

More :-
http://blog.karenbryan.co.uk/2013/08/bts-closure-of-free-email-services.html

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[EddieM]

I thought 'twas just a split with Yahoo! ??

We're changing BT's portal and email services
http://tinyurl.com/ltg5zc3

More :-
http://blog.karenbryan.co.uk/2013/08/bts-closure-of-free-email-services.html

-0-

Yeah don't know how that split works, if you email me at [email protected] or [email protected] or even [email protected] it all comes through to my address

(the xxx aren't real btw)

 

[Diane2]

I thought 'twas just a split with Yahoo! ??

We're changing BT's portal and email services
http://tinyurl.com/ltg5zc3

More :-
http://blog.karenbryan.co.uk/2013/08/bts-closure-of-free-email-services.html

-0-

Yeah don't know how that split works, if you email me at [email protected] or [email protected] or even [email protected] it all comes through to my address

(the xxx aren't real btw)

and a copy goes to his ex wife

 

[jockscott]

Balls! We have just dumped bt after 29 years and moved sky and were told we could keep our bt yahoo accounts

I've just moved to Sky too. Guess what? To log in to their Sky ID, I can't use the email addy Sky have supplied. I've tried emailing them only to be told "For security purposes you cannot use your @sky.com email address. Any email contact from Sky can only be sent to a non @sky.com email address.
My old ISP deleted my email accounts shortly after I left them, leaving me with no email contact with Sky. I have phoned customer services requesting that they use me new email account, but their adamant they can't use it (for security purposes) FFS, they must be the only ISP to supply people with a email address, they cannot contact them with.

PS, they have suggested I set up a Gmail account... Yeah right, very secure they are.

 

[ajrtd]

Our changeover date is the 22nd so I hope to have found some way of keeping my existing emails and contacts by then otherwise I'm in the ****e

 

[EddieM]

Yeah you pay bt £1.60 a month to keep your address.

 

[plz]

Yeah you pay bt £1.60 a month to keep your address.

...or sign up for their broadband - which I suspect is their main drive judging by the number of flyers they keep sending us.
We had ours since the old days of pay-as-you-go dial-up and never changed even after getting tiscali broadband. BT initially sent us reminders to dial their system every 90 days to keep the accounts open, but these dried up afer a few years so we thought we'd got away with it... until now
Btw - we tried setting up basic (free) yahoo accounts to avoid having to learn a new system, but when we imported old emails & folders from btyahoo via pop, all the date-timestamps were set to the time of import. Tried same trick with gmail and no problems so that's where we ended up. Bit of a learning curve but not too hard... +ve point is label system allows nesting so much better than yahoo's folders, -ve no disposable addresses.