Orange email server is closing down May 31.

[rfisher]

Had my email address for about 25 years.

Runs via Orange (now EE) on a freeserve address.

EE are now closing this server down with a complete loss of access at the end of May.

This is going to be painful as my email address is linked to virtually all my internet sites.

Not pleased.

[ging84]

you've had 10+ years to prepare for this

[rfisher]

Oooooooooooooooooooooookay.

[mikees]

rfisher said:

Oooooooooooooooooooooookay.

He's a dick mate. Move on. I had same issue with o2. Oh did I say previous poster was a DICK?

[buggalugs]

Offer to buy the domain off them when they've finished with it

[Craikeybaby]

First of all, decide where your new email will be - ideally somewhere not tied to your broadband provider. I like Gmail for this, as it can access your old email server allowing to recieve emails so you can find any that you haven't changed manually between now and the end of May.

[paul789]

mikees said:

rfisher said:

Oooooooooooooooooooooookay.

He's a dick mate. Move on. I had same issue with o2. Oh did I say previous poster was a DICK?

What did he do mate? Genuinely, *genuinely*, fascinated about how you can fall out with somebody to that degree on an internet forum?

[jamoor]

I don't really have much sympathy for anyone using an ISP email address.

[sjg]

rfisher said:

Had my email address for about 25 years.

Runs via Orange (now EE) on a freeserve address.

EE are now closing this server down with a complete loss of access at the end of May.

This is going to be painful as my email address is linked to virtually all my internet sites.

Not pleased.

Are you after a refund?

I'd have considered a Freeserve address to be on borrowed time since their acquisition in 2000 and I'm amazed they're still going, for free, nearly 17 years later.

If you want to avoid the upheaval ever again then you can buy your own .co.uk domain and point it to wherever you like. If they disappear then you point it somewhere else. Not free though.

[loudlashadjuster]

ging84 said:

you've had 10+ years to prepare for this

Without being a 8=====D I'd go along with this. It can't be a shock at this juncture and there's been plenty of time to transition.

It's all those plumbers, carpet fitters etc. with Freeserve addresses on the side of their vans (often even though they have a proper domain for their website ) that I feel sorry for.

sjg said:

If you want to avoid the upheaval ever again then you can buy your own .co.uk domain and point it to wherever you like. If they disappear then you point it somewhere else. Not free though.

+1

[PF62]

Oh god.

That means a whole world of pain sorting out a new email account for my 83 year old mother who has been using her Freeserve account for the last 15 years.

[ian in lancs]

sorry - i dont know what this means!

Will my email no longer work?

[bitchstewie]

I knew people still clung onto Freeserve accounts but I'd kind of assumed that they would have already been transitioning away from them to reduce the impact when Orange finally decided to kill it.

Gmail is good, otherwise spend a tenner and register a domain name.

[ian in lancs]

with gmail can i still use the mail app on my apple devices and outlook on my pc to download my emails and carry on where i left off?

[PF62]

ian in lancs said:

with gmail can i still use the mail app on my apple devices and outlook on my pc to download my emails and carry on where i left off?

Outlook, yes. Apple, theoretically yes, but the one time I tried to set up an email account on an Apple device I gave up.

[ian in lancs]

what about iCloud mail running on my apple stuff and set up on outlook on my desktop? would that work?

[spitfire-ian]

I've got my gmail account happily running on the mail apps on my iPhone, iPad, iMac and on my PC via Outlook.

[Craikeybaby]

ian in lancs said:

what about iCloud mail running on my apple stuff and set up on outlook on my desktop? would that work?

Yes, it looks like that would work. Although, even as an Apple geek, I prefer gmail.

[Yipper]

Still got mine from ~1996, and dip into it once or twice a year "just in case", but pretty much stopped using it altogether about a decade ago. Usability was cr*p and the email address way too long.

[Dogwatch]

rfisher said:

Runs via Orange (now EE) on a freeserve address.

EE are now closing this server down with a complete loss of access at the end of May.

EE are now owned by BT. Keep up!