Orange email to close.

I've had the same email addy for 14 years. I got it when Orange was Freeserve. I'm a bit shocked to get an email from Orange to say they were closing their email accounts and I had to get another.

What kind of a server doesn't provide an email service?

I do have a Hotmail addy that I use for ebay but it's not a patch on my Orange one.

I'm not happy about having to change.

Has this happened to anybody else?

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No.....but there again I have never used my providers email addresses.

As for Orange/EE......nothing surprises me....I was with them for nearly 23 years until they started offering new customers better deals than those that were existing.

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Carol I was with Demon/Freeserve/Orange/EE which is now BT
I wonder if I will get a letter
I have had the same email since I started on the internet it will be a pain to change

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Tpin, Talk Talk told me that, if you don't renew your contract regularly then you end up paying more.... it is the new customers that get the best deals. Now I have renewed my contact, my phone bills have reduce by half... but I am now stuck with them for another 2 years!

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It's not happened to me, since I went Gmail years ago but a friend has just received notification and I'm changing his email to Google one afternoon later this week.

For him, the change will be relatively painless since he is a light user, but if I had to change again it would probably take me a week to sort through hundreds of business and personal contacts plus hundreds of website accounts .....

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Tpin is right about not using an e-mail address from your server.
I was with Virgin until one day they told me I was being put onto Talk Talk because Virgin no longer wanted customers on the slow broadband connections [copper cable instead of fibre optic] here in the wilds of South Yorkshire we haven't got fibre optic yet.

I told them to 'Stick it' and joined up with BT. But now I have a Gmail address just incase it happens again.....It was a right pain in the rectum informing all my contacts that my address had changed. I can still access my old address on Virgin [But I don't know for how long] and some people are still communicating with me on the old address.....Nightmare.....

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I seem to vaguely remember I had an orange email years ago I do use the email addy my provider gives me, it's bt these days.

My husband prefers yahoo but I think yahoo and bt are related now anyway.

Never got on with gmail I have an addy but I never use it.

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Although we have VM fibre broadband, the VM e-mail service that comes with it is, at best, slightly unreliable and slow to load, and occasionally fails altogether.

For that reason, I also have a G-mail account which is much more reliable.

When the latest problems arose recently, I telephoned VM and told them that I found G-mail more reliable. The lady's response was to assure me that ALL e-mail services have regular problems.

I responded by assuring her that, in my experience, G-mail had not failed even once.

VM broadband may be fast, but if and when another supplier decides to install fibre connections locally, I shall be the first to give them a try.

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I've never bothered using the internet providers email addy as my email address it would be to much trouble if you switch providers. I'm happy with yahoo.

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EE are closing the email facility from 31st May, these are the affected addresses.


Orange.net
Orangehome.co.uk
Wanadoo.co.uk
Freeserve.co.uk
Fsbusiness.co.uk
Fslife.co.uk
Fsmail.net
Fsworld.co.uk
Fsnet.co.uk
new.labour.org.uk

I use 'Windows Live Mail' on my computer so am just going to add a new email GMail I think then let everyone know of the change while I still have the old address