OT: Orange email is closing

If you get your own domain name (which isn't free but is only a few quid a year) and forward all the incoming mail to a gmail account you get the above for incoming mail. Changing the "from" address to your own-domain in gmail is more awkward.

Owain

Thanks for the heads up! It would have been nice to have been notified first by EE on the email address they have for my contact details. It appears to affect all email services ever provided by Wanadoo, Orange or EE or any other minor players they absorbed in the past.

Take a look on demon.service for tips on how and where to obtain similar functionality for lowest cost. Voodofone are doing something similarly bad to their old Demon customers at the moment but with less warning (as you might expect from a bunch of cowboys).

Indeed. But all good things come to an end.

get yourself a domain with e.g. 123reg and simply redirect ALL the domain to something naff like a gmail box

At least there's time to set up another (new) gmail account and remember/reconfigure all the places that might have my blah.freeserve.co.uk e-mail address for notifications, and a couple of months to catch those I'd forgotten about that I want to keep!

Freeserve/Wanadoo/Orange really aren't worth it any more. The small free webspace finally went (Aug 2016?) and now the e-mail. Those are really the only things I've hung on for with Freeserve/Wanadoo/Orange and deterred me from looking elsewhere. Time for a change. Oh and Freeserve/Wanadoo/Orange have been putting up the monthly fee a couple of times recently. They're obviously not interested...

I also use 123Reg and find it cheap and trouble free.

Bob

You can do this with PlusNet, but you have to enable the feature on their website first.

Sounds a bit mean if you ask me. I'm sure its not a major cost drain considering the attraction to people joining the service. Brian

its now ?8 a year for a .co.uk not a big expense, but not a few quid a year

What is te coat of broadband? about £30 a month inc rental of the line. what is £8 a year compared to that?

Even my virtual server costs less than the means to access it.

I have an fslife email address which I haven't actively used for years. Nevertheless, there are about 50 organisations which still sent newsletters etc. to variants of that address and/or with which I've got a logon which uses that address.

So I have a fair bit of reconfiguring to do in the next 3 months!

I seem to recall it's well documented and not especially difficult.

Its gone up from 2014 ?6 for two years to ?8 for one year inconsequential cost for a business but not great value (IMHO) if you are only using it for email forwarding

Since when has 8 not been 'a few'?

Depend who you buy your domain from. Mythic Beasts £7 one year, £58.50 for ten years Joker.com £7.12 one year

It is mean, but broadband provision is now a commodity, and with margins very small, every little helps I suppose...

The cost of running an email server used to be trivial.Of course that was before IMAP and everyone leaving gigabytes of mail on forever, all needing to be RAIDED and backed up. -a mammoth task in itself.

These days it's the cloud or do it yourself.

I would advise everyone to do it themselves. Clouds cannot be trusted.

given a domain for about £10 or less a year, you then need a VPS out there on a fixed IP address. For mail, a couple of personal web sites it needs bugger all RAM and disc space is up to you. This one is £72 per year appx

So that's a grand total of £82 a year for your very own domain, cloud: mail and web server and drop box and everything - a place where you can make all your data as globally accessible as you want.

And you can back it up to a home based machine every night

Do they back it up properly? Not much use as a backup for your home machine if you want a backup off site if they don't.

Thanks, you would have thought an email domain would be free advertising and have value.