What happens to email on migration?

I am thinking about migrating away from plusnet but I'm wondering what happens to mail boxes after I switch. I need some time to switch to a new email address so I was wondering if they close the email adresses immediatly after you migrate away or whether they stay open for a while afterwards.

You can request that they downgrade the account to pay as you go. I left plusnet years ago and still have an active account with email (not that I use their email, didn't even use it when I was with them).

Get ISP-independent email anyway then you never have to worry again, and you have an address that you have chosen. There are freebies such as googlemail which I believe is fairly good, but better is a dedicated paid-for service.

You need a domain - Purple Cloud, (click in my sig), charge £7.50 for two years for yourdomain.co.uk or yourdomain.me.uk. Then an email service to go with it, again PC charge £10 per year with 10 mailboxes, unlimited aliases, POP3/SMTP/IMAP/Webmail, and Spam Assassin running on the servers.

There are cheaper, but I have been with PC a fair while now and they are good and reliable. Also upgrading works a dream just like it says on their site.

You could be up and running in a few hours and notify all your contacts/subscriptions and so on immediately. Then send on the new one and read on it and Plusnet, to see if any turn up you have forgotten. Until you migrate when you can let the Plusnet drop or do as suggested by ian72.

Edited by RobertoS (Wed 31-Dec-08 16:35:12)

That is indeed what i 'm planning on doing. Thanks for the advice.