Can I keep my Virgin Email address if I cancel my broadband contract

ezz69

07311022 wrote: »

I'm aware that my query may seem silly to some, however when I moved out my previous home and had to stay with family for 5 weeks, Virgin did allow me to downgrade to pay as u go/dial up, and thus still have access to the email address. I was simply enquiring whether anyone knew if this may still be an option

My Virgin Media services was disconected in Jan 2012 but i still have emails as of april 2012.
I want ot terminate the emails but the people from virgin put me on dial up, I dislike the virgin emails or should i say the NTLworld email as that is my primary email account.
I dislike the NTLworld email as it is a spammers paradise, they are even forging my emails and sending them back to me..
Virgin emails have never been the same since the moved over to the google email service and which i might add is so unrelaiable, forever getting google apps error.
I to would like to know how to terminate this dial up account once and for all. :beer:

*j*

Do Virgin Media still have dial up access?

I'd be pleased if they do because it would enable me to swap my email addresses to that and retain them, while dumping them for the broadband access.

When I looked into it a few months ago they claimed not to have dial up any more!

*j*

DCFC79

*j* wrote: »

Do Virgin Media still have dial up access?

I'd be pleased if they do because it would enable me to swap my email addresses to that and retain them, while dumping them for the broadband access.

When I looked into it a few months ago they claimed not to have dial up any more!

*j*

Its either ADSL or cable for internet access

DCFC79

ezz69 wrote: »

My Virgin Media services was disconected in Jan 2012 but i still have emails as of april 2012.
I want ot terminate the emails but the people from virgin put me on dial up, I dislike the virgin emails or should i say the NTLworld email as that is my primary email account.
I dislike the NTLworld email as it is a spammers paradise, they are even forging my emails and sending them back to me..
Virgin emails have never been the same since the moved over to the google email service and which i might add is so unrelaiable, forever getting google apps error.
I to would like to know how to terminate this dial up account once and for all. :beer:

Did you have to drag up an extremely old thread

Gratis

DCFC79 wrote: »

Did you have to drag up an extremely old thread

It was his/her first posting on MSE and the poor person probably thought that the right thing to do was to put the question in an existing thread on the subject instead of (like so many people) lazily starting a new thread on a topic that's already been done to death a hundred times before. (Which practice you deprecate as much as I do.)

A case for cutting a little slack for a Newbie instead of frightening them away with a blast on their first posting?

Jeannine

I am in the same situation as you ezz69, and apparently it will disappear after 90 days. We left Virgin in January and my VirginNet email is still working. Quite good actually as I can make sure that I haven't missed any contacts. (I took advice from here and opened a gmail account - very easy and no problems.):j

j2011

I to would like to know how to terminate this dial up account once and for all.

Why access your dial up and email account?

I have a Tesco dial up account from the days before I got broadband.

I don't even know if it is still active as after letting know the people who I wanted to email me my telewest email address I have never accessed it since.

mttylad

If anyone is concerned about this then IMO they should setup a free email account I.E. with gmail and then forward ALL their emails from virgin to it and also seetup the gmail account to have permission to send on behalf of the virgin account.

Also to download all of the virgin email via pop.

All this is easy to do, then once setup if you continue to use the gmail account and if Virgin stop your access to the account then you have your mail, it may be forwarded to you.

You should also take note of emails forwarded to you from it and visit each site/email each sender to use your new account instead.

The_Safordian

I would say unofficially they most likely let you keep them because the actual system they use is Gmails

Gratis wrote: »

It was his/her first posting on MSE and the poor person probably thought that the right thing to do was to put the question in an existing thread on the subject instead of (like so many people) lazily starting a new thread on a topic that's already been done to death a hundred times before. (Which practice you deprecate as much as I do.)o
A case for cutting a little slack for a Newbie instead of frightening them away with a blast on their first posting?

Please stay on TOPIC instead of trying to be a back seat moderator

TonyMMM

I have had a virgin.net email address since I used them for dial-up years ago, and it still works fine.