Virgin Media offloadling all its email services

Surprised that ThinkBroadband doesn't seem to have noticed this - but The Register has...

45 days to move, folks...

Virgin Media customers can get a year of free service with the new provider, but will be charged after that.

Anyone still using ISP-provided e-mail or web space should move ASAP. Tying yourself to an ISP because you need to keep a particular e-mail address or website URL has not made sense for years, especially when domains and mail redirection or hosting are so cheap.

I moved to using my own domain for e-mail in 1999, initially redirecting my domain to Demon's mail service. Eventually, I moved to a hosted e-mail service, and then to e-mail hosted on a Microsoft 365 tenant. As I haven't relied on ISP-provided e-mail or webspace since 1999, subsequent ISP changes were straightforward because I used the ISP only for connectivity. I went from Demon to Virgin (well, NTL as it was back then), then to Zen, then, when we moved from TiVo to Virgin 360 TV, I kept Zen and added a Virgin connection for Virgin TV and for backup connectivity.

I don't even know if the ntlworld address that I once had still works. If it does, I don't care if it goes away. I'll watch for the Virgin notification in case that address still works, as I want it deleted rather than migrated.

Gosh I lost my login details to my ancient history .blueyonder.co.uk email addresses years ago. Tried in vain to recover them but never could.

In reply to a post by Pheasant:

Gosh I lost my login details to my ancient history .blueyonder.co.uk email addresses years ago. Tried in vain to recover them but never could.

No more nightmares for you, now, then!

Best thing ever 😅

In reply to a post by Pheasant:

Gosh I lost my login details to my ancient history .blueyonder.co.uk email addresses years ago. Tried in vain to recover them but never could.

I was NTL broadband back in the 1999 to 2005 period, then rejoined in 2019 (due to openreach copper no longer managing even 16 Mbit).... and never had email. So this is the longer term customers they are annoying, which is usually not a good move for a business.

No surprise really, VM had stopped giving mailboxes around 4 years ago, so new users had to have their own email setup. Anytime VM email was mentioned on the Forum, we always encouraged users to move away from BY/NTL/VM email.
Maybe users should complain on the VM Forums? ... oh wait, that's gone as well