Verizon to drop Email service

[Bluerobin]

Ok, I saw a note on my email account today that Verizon is going to drop email.  What else is a good Internet Service? 

[Rob Base 2.0]

  You know you do NOT have to get your email through your internet service provider, you can get a gmail, etc. account........

[moon/Laura]

It's actually much better to NOT use the email from your isp, in my opinion. Why? Because say you change ISPs or something. Then you have to remember all the places you used that email for a site or whatever and go change it. You'll most likely miss some...

In the case of proboards, email is the *only* way to prove your identity and get password resets. If you lose access to that mail for any reason - which is common when people use an isp email, switch providers but forget to change it on their profile - you're out of luck. Have to start all over. And that sucks.

HINT- go make sure your email addresses used for the forum are current, everyone.

[NoNamePerson]

I've always had email seperate from ISP. Never used isp as primary email. Have two emails now besides isp email. One is for newsletters, etc and one as primary. 


I did did not like the idea that isp wanted to use my name and as we all know I have no name...

[moon/Laura]

I do actually have a comcast mail but I don't use it for anything other than paperless billing, which I have forward to my primary email.

[Tennesseer]

Apr 22, 2017 8:45:39 GMT -5 moon/Laura said:

It's actually much better to NOT use the email from your isp, in my opinion. Why? Because say you change ISPs or something. Then you have to remember all the places you used that email for a site or whatever and go change it. You'll most likely miss some...

In the case of proboards, email is the *only* way to prove your identity and get password resets. If you lose access to that mail for any reason - which is common when people use an isp email, switch providers but forget to change it on their profile - you're out of luck. Have to start all over. And that sucks.

HINT- go make sure your email addresses used for the forum are current, everyone.

I agree with all of the above.

I used to have AT&T as my ISP and then I changed to Xfinity. In passing as I spoke with AT&T when I was closing out my account with them, I told them I would have to change my email address to my new provider. The customer rep told me that AT&T had changed their policy of eliminating former customer email address when they change their ISP and now allow the former customer to keep their AT&T email address as long as their former account was closed in good order. It has almost been two years now with my new ISP provider and I still have and do use my AT&T email address though not for important things.

But still a good idea not to use an email address associated with your ISP provider.

[Bluerobin]

Years ago, I had MSN.  They still do ISP?  Any other good ones?

[ken a.k.a OMK]

Blue, I still have your addy at verizon.net

[Jaguar]

MSN mail service is called Outlook Express, there's Yahoo, and Gmail. Yahoo ain't great for getting mail from ProBoards though. Put [e-mail] in as a email contact so you can hopefully get ProBoards email from Moon.

[ken a.k.a OMK]

MSN mail service is called Outlook Express,

And that's were I am directed for my old hotmail account. So many people know that addy that I don't want to delete it. But it is a PIA now. I've redirected it to my current email.

[Rob Base 2.0]

Apr 22, 2017 12:17:17 GMT -5 ken a.k.a OMK said:

MSN mail service is called Outlook Express,

And that's were I am directed for my old hotmail account. So many people know that addy that I don't want to delete it. But it is a PIA now. I've redirected it to my current email.

Hotmail works fine for me. The one and only email I have had