Email disappear with termination of virgin media

isotonic_uk

Hi

I think I know the answer to this but thought I would check. After 10 years I am thinking of leaving Virgin to go to Sky as I am paying over the odds and Sky ATM are offering a better deal with more choice.

I am happy to stay with Virgin if the price is right and I'll see what retentions say.

If I don't get the deal I want I expect that I will lose my virgin email address which poses a bit of a problem for me as it was my first ever email addresses and everyone has got to know it.

Does anyone have any advice on what I could do. I use Outlook so have all my emails backed up but not sure how it will work for current correspondence.

With hindsight I understand that using my ISP email was a bad idea. I am thinking now to buy my own personalised email address. Would others recommend this? if so which is the best one to go for? any pitfalls to look at?

Much appreciated.

penrhyn

Why not just get a Gmail address?
Sky Email is a re-badged version of Gmail and as far as I'm aware so is Virgin's new service.
Its possible that Virgin let you keep the address for life as Sky do with theirs, but you would need to check.

isotonic_uk

Yes I have a Gmail account also which I created about 2 years ago so have started to use this for certain things.

macman

So why would you want to buy another one? Just move everything over to Gmail and then you can change ISP's as often as you wish without problems.
Just set up Gmail to download into Outlook.