Solved: O2 email accounts

JHA1E · ‎02-09-2016

O2 has closed down its email accounts. Not a problem but I can still send to my account but I cannot download from the account to check. Emails sent to my o2 account just disappear. Why do emails sent to a defunct o2 email account not bounce back?

Toby · ‎07-09-2016

Hi @JHA1E,

Your feedback and that of others in the same boat has ensured that from today, all closed down webmail accounts will have a message to indicate its closure. Hopefully this helps!

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MI5 · ‎02-09-2016

Because the email is still received by the smtp server which is still active.
It's only the pop server that has gone so far.

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JHA1E · ‎02-09-2016

So how long before the smtp server is disabled so that emails sent to the account in error are bounced?

MI5 · ‎02-09-2016

No one knows - we've asked but not had an answer.
tbh it's a major mess up all round.

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JHA1E · ‎02-09-2016

I am glad that I am not the only one who thinks it is a total shambles!

Beenherebefore · ‎02-09-2016

Oh no, there are plenty of us on here.....and if the truth be known, there are many hundred within O2 thinking exactly the same.

"My life is a facsimile of a sham"

MI5 · ‎02-09-2016

It's taken them over 3 years of saying it is ending to get to this point where it is only half finished.
It could go on like this for another 3 years !!

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Beenherebefore · ‎02-09-2016

@MI5 wrote:

It could go on like this for another 3 years !!

You might.....just might regret saying that

"My life is a facsimile of a sham"

Bambino · ‎02-09-2016

@JHA1E It's probably of no consolation to you, but it is now approaching three years that this was announced.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=4761509

Edit: as @MI5 mentioned as I was typing.:smileywink:

I DO NOT WORK FOR O2

Anonymous · ‎06-09-2016

After not receiving any emails into my o2 account after 9th August I have started receiving some again in the last two or three days! Whatever is happening??

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