topic Re: O2 email still working? in Discussions & Feedback

O2 email still working?

Anonymous — Sat, 25 Jun 2016 09:11:28 GMT

I hope this hasn't been discussed somewhere else. I migrated my email to gmail when the notice for O2 arrived that it would be closing down on 20.6.16.

However while there doesn't seem to be a web based access point on o2 anymore i am still receiving email and can send from the o2 account set up on my iPhone/iPad. Has anyone else found this and do you know know why? Is it just a delay etc?

Thanks

Re: O2 email still working?

Bambino — Sat, 25 Jun 2016 09:16:46 GMT

It's probably only a delay. Use O2 mail at your own risk. If you've switched your contacts elsewhere, use that address and not O2's, and make sure you've notified everyone. If you keep using the O2 address you will have no one but yourself to blame when it stops and you can't use it any longer.

Re: O2 email still working?

Anonymous — Sat, 25 Jun 2016 09:19:38 GMT

Thanks bambino. Immunotherapy using it just receiving fro people I didn't want to contact or some I forgot I needed to - which was handy.

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Anonymous — Sat, 25 Jun 2016 09:20:16 GMT

Immunotherapy! I'm not really using it....

Re: O2 email still working?

Bambino — Sat, 25 Jun 2016 09:23:43 GMT

You're lucky it was still working for the ones you forgot then. Double check you have covered all your bases, then delete it from your phone. If it isn't dead yet, it soon will be.

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MI5 — Sat, 25 Jun 2016 09:44:53 GMT

Someone else has reported it still working a couple of days ago but as said, don't rely on it anymore.

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Cleoriff — Sat, 25 Jun 2016 09:45:51 GMT

It is still working for some but isnt worth any delay. As said you need to get everything over asap...

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jonsie — Sat, 25 Jun 2016 09:51:00 GMT

I just hope that no one gets caught out thinking they are ok to keep relying on it.

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Beenherebefore — Sat, 25 Jun 2016 10:02:26 GMT

@jonsie wrote:
I just hope that no one gets caught out thinking they are ok to keep relying on it.

I don't.........they should have taken notice of what has been common knowledge for months.

Re: O2 email still working?

Bambino — Sat, 25 Jun 2016 11:08:09 GMT

@Beenherebefore wrote:
@jonsie wrote:
I just hope that no one gets caught out thinking they are ok to keep relying on it.
I don't.........they should have taken notice of what has been common knowledge for months.

Years:smileywink:

Re: O2 email still working?

Anonymous — Sat, 25 Jun 2016 13:34:31 GMT

I thought I had transferred all my contacts to Hotmail from o2 and everything has been working fine until now.

I bought something online( I buy loads of stuff online) but I hadn't used this supplier for ages and after I had paid I realised that they probably had my old email number. When I checked my new email account the order wasn't there and I couldn't access o2 (as some people can).

The order will probably be delivered ok as they have all my details, it's just that if anything does go wrong I haven't any proof that I placed the order.

Re: O2 email still working?

Bambino — Sat, 25 Jun 2016 14:14:42 GMT

You need to go into the account you have with the supplier and change your contact email address. There really isn't anything else you can do if your O2 mail has stopped.

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MI5 — Sat, 25 Jun 2016 14:32:34 GMT

I guess there will always be odd ones like this popping up - I wouldn't think I could catch every online supplier I use in one go.....

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Anonymous — Sun, 26 Jun 2016 22:26:48 GMT

Hi Ed1 and others

I have also arranged for all my O2 webmail to be redirected to gmail. Which was one of the 'recommended' options, when we were informed O2 webmail was closing down. However, I am still a little bit confused. What was the point in arranging redirection, if it was just going to be a temporary solution? I have informed most of my contacts that they should delete my old O2 webmail address, but as one of your 'experts' mentioned, you can't possibly remember everyone. And something important might turn up. I might win the lottery, for example. Does closing down webmail mean that the redirection service has finished for good? Many thanks.

Re: O2 email still working?

MI5 — Mon, 27 Jun 2016 05:52:17 GMT

O2 aren't redirecting any email.
Users need to inform their contacts of the change.

Re: O2 email still working?

Bambino — Mon, 27 Jun 2016 12:57:41 GMT

@Anonymous Where did you get the idea that you could redirect your O2 mail, or is that just the way you've interpreted the word regarding you notifying your contacts yourself?

Re: O2 email still working?

jonsie — Mon, 27 Jun 2016 13:03:29 GMT

Redirection has never been an option. It's a matter of forwarding with your new email client...........

Re: O2 email still working?

Anonymous — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 15:25:51 GMT

Although the webmail has been taken off the log in page, and I have contacted all my "wanted" people, I am still getting loads of spam emails coming through my old email address on my laptop. I still have to go and delete them all every day. When will they stop my old email address? Very annoying.

Re: O2 email still working?

MI5 — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 15:30:22 GMT

Any day now....

Re: O2 email still working?

Anonymous — Sun, 10 Jul 2016 11:43:50 GMT

Here we are on 10th July and still getting o2 emails. If they are notg closing down the server as they said, why did we all bother? Looks as if we will get o2 emails forever.