Re: VM transferring email services to Junara
 

You need an "authenticator app", presumably to be able to login to their site.

Even the dedicated VM information gives no actual plan costs.
I would never consider a company that tries so hard to hide its prices, very shady.

Re: VM transferring email services to Junara
 

If you enter your email address it will take you to prices and I think you can skip the auth app stage.

Re: VM transferring management of email services to Junara
 

Did it by mailing to other address. Pain but done. Pity you can't close the e mail address, just have to wait for them too.:dozey:

Re: VM transferring email services to Junara
 

I had folders set up (I use thunderbird) with most of my 'important' stuff in them.

I already had one gmail address, so simply copied the folders from the NTL address to the gmail one

Re: VM transferring email services to Junara
 

I also use Thunderbird to move emails between email accounts. It’s very easy to do and it preserves the emails original date and time.

Re: VM transferring email services to Junara
 

Not a surprise really, VM stopped giving email addresses several years ago.
As for moving emails away, I'd suggest Mailstore Home. Once this is setup it can copy all the email from VM to your PC/Laptop for archive/storage.
Perhaps another reason not to have a public facing forum ... :-)

Re: VM transferring email services to Junara
 

They are being incredibly shady hiding their prices. 5.5 million potential customer paying 99p to keep an email address. That is a lot of money to then find at some point during the first year they want a monthly subscription which ends up being a lot .

Glad nothing important was ever tied to my ntl email

Re: VM transferring email services to Junara
 

Not having to faff about changing and/or forwarding the NTL emails was really the last reason for me staying.
They've actually been pretty decent 'overall' over the last 26 years or so, but in the ever changing world of technology advances and money saving cutbacks they've just become another bog standard provider.
The BB speeds are fantastic . . if speed is important . . but if it isn't there are now many other options compared to years ago.

Re: VM transferring email services to Junara
 

ISP webmail always has you tied to the ISP and they can and often do remove your access when you leave so it never has been a good idea to use ISP mail as your main log anywhere. I used AOL originally then went to hotmail now have outlook and gmail various accounts with various usages and different degrees of anomality

Re: VM transferring email services to Junara
 

Yeah, I decided ISP email was a bad idea a long time ago.
I ran my own email servers for years, and moved away from using my ntl address.

My wife kept on using hers until I finally decided to leave VM, at which point I created her a new address using Dreamhost as the provider (CFs email also used them). At the same time I decided to shut down my own servers and moved my email domains to use Hostinger. Both those providers had similar prices (about £1.50 per month).

At the start of this year I moved them all to another company, which costs me about 50p a month (and that includes both mine, my wifes, and CFs email).

Re: VM transferring email services to Junara
 

The same here - I stopped using my ntlworld email address for anything about ten years ago, and set up forwarding - I haven't received anything in it since I consolidated my VM and O2 accounts to a joint (non-VM) email account.

Re: VM transferring email services to Junara
 

Don't get me wrong here, it's not really a MASSIVE problem to create new email addresses for me and the wife and then transfer important stuff, it's just the time and effort to do so (and the pain from the wife who will give me ear ache and not VM) and having to tell everyone of the changes.

It also seems you're now getting less and less for the money you pay, but hey that's everywhere now isn't it :D

Re: VM transferring email services to Junara
 

But on the gripping hand, if it wasn’t happening, you’d have less to complain about… ;)

Re: VM transferring email services to Junara
 

I abandoned all my ntlworld accounts years ago, I think they still work since I left VM earlier this year.

People should just sign up to a free one from Outlook and Gmail.

Re: VM transferring email services to Junara
 

If I had less to complain about . . regarding anything at all . . . that would mean people are doing what they're supposed to do correctly and with at least a small amount of common sense and decency

I guess I'm one of the few that don't accept crap when offered ;)