Virgin email moving away from Google
 

Just received this email


http://store.virginmedia.com/discove...t-vm-mail.html

Re: Looks like Virginmedia have fallen out with Google
 

Lets hope the migration goes smoothly.

Re: Looks like Virginmedia have fallen out with Google
 

Noted here

Wonder if we will keep the same storage value ?

Re: Looks like Virginmedia have fallen out with Google
 

10p says it doesn't

Re: Looks like Virginmedia have fallen out with Google
 

Will this cause problems for those like me who access their emails through Windows Live Mail?

Re: Looks like Virginmedia have fallen out with Google
 

I'm guessing that it's the webmail interface that's getting a warm over. The server names didn't change when google took over running it so I don't see why there should be any change when they're not.

Having said that, something's bound to get assed up.:(

Re: Looks like Virginmedia have fallen out with Google
 

Indeed.;)

Re: Looks like Virginmedia have fallen out with Google
 

I wonder if they will be as unreliable as the NTLworld servers were. there wernt a week went by they didnt go wrong.

Re: Looks like Virginmedia have fallen out with Google
 

But they were a free add-on and we weren't entitled to expect NTLWorld email to actually work .... :D

</nostalgia>

Re: Looks like Virginmedia have fallen out with Google
 

They worked most of the time for me but then I always use Thunderbird. Never could get the M$ outlook thing to run reliably.

Re: Looks like Virginmedia have fallen out with Google
 

If you're still using your Virgin/NTLWorld/Blueyonder email account, I would strongly advise you to drop it and move to another email provider that's separate from your ISP.

Doesn't matter if it's Gmail, Hotmail (aka Outlook), even Yahoo, anything is better than using your ISP address, which might suddenly stop working because they've arbitrarily decided to switch providers.

Oh and I'd bet cold, hard cash that emails will go missing during this migration - they always do.

Re: Looks like Virginmedia have fallen out with Google
 

This wasn't a falling out :)

VM are moving to the same email system as the rest of the Liberty Global family is all. If there's software that can do the job in-house it makes sense to use it.

Re: Looks like Virginmedia have fallen out with Google
 

Google is free, Microsoft is free, no?

why spent money on servers to run it themselves? Running Spamassasin and filtering via blacklists etc, smtp/imap/pop(?) servers for all customers, it costs. What's the advantage? Are they going to "read" the email and give VM customers ads as google does?:confused:

Re: Looks like Virginmedia have fallen out with Google
 

Google and Microsoft is free, no? - No.

Google is only free to individuals and Education accounts - corporates (such as Rolls Royce, Telegraph, Guardian, etc.) pay for Google services.

(Same applies to MS, except MS charge for EDU accounts, but with a large discount).

I would imagine VM have been paying Google for its email service.

Re: Looks like Virginmedia have fallen out with Google
 

One of the first rules of life.

NOTHING IS FREE.