Sky buyout of O2 Broadband

Quentin

StevieJ wrote: »

Is this true even if you still have a mobile with them?

Yes.

This is from o2:

http://www.o2.co.uk/broadband/broadbandchanges

Can I still use my o2.co.uk email address?

Yes.

When your service moves to Sky you'll still to be able to use your o2.co.uk email address with a reduced storage allowance of 20MB.

You will be able to sign up to Sky's email service, they'll let you know more details about this when your service is transferred

AlanS

andrewmp wrote: »

What I did (a long time ago)..

Set up a gmail account. In your settings there is an "add account" option. Add in your o2 account and select the option "do not leave a copy on server". Your @o2 account will never fill up as gmail is constantly checking few new mail. Do the same for any other ISP mail you might have.

Then gmail will fetch everything from @o2.co.uk. Then just don't bother with the @Sky address and use either the o2 mail or the gmail account going forward.

... buy you'd have to check your gmail every 20 minutes 24x7 in order to keep emptying your O2 box ... all it takes is for someone to send you a couple of emails with some pics or documents attached and your O2 box will be full, and everyone else trying to email you will get bounces ... 20Mb isn't very much ..... 4 hi-res photos will probably fill it !

penrhyn

You probably won't want Sky's new email service as its Yahoo, as above grasp the nettle and set up an non ISP account like Gmail.

I would advise all unhappy O2 users to move elsewhere, more Sky bandwidth for me Mwahahahaha.

gwapenut

AlanS wrote: »

... buy you'd have to check your gmail every 20 minutes 24x7 in order to keep emptying your O2 box ... all it takes is for someone to send you a couple of emails with some pics or documents attached and your O2 box will be full, and everyone else trying to email you will get bounces ... 20Mb isn't very much ..... 4 hi-res photos will probably fill it !

Wrong, gmail will fetch it for you automatically at about that frequency.

Even if you're not logged in, no computer open, etc

StevieJ

penrhyn wrote: »

You probably won't want Sky's new email service as its Yahoo, as above grasp the nettle and set up an non ISP account like Gmail.

I would advise all unhappy O2 users to move elsewhere, more Sky bandwidth for me Mwahahahaha.

I still have my Btopenworld yahoo address and I left there 4 years ago, seems to be plenty of capacity on that one.

AlanS

gwapenut wrote: »

Wrong, gmail will fetch it for you automatically at about that frequency.

Even if you're not logged in, no computer open, etc

I stand corrected .. you're right !

But I also read this:

"However, Gmail by default fetches your mail only once every hour."

and Google themselves state "Gmail checks each account at different rates, which are based on previous attempts to fetch new messages; you can't choose the frequency."

So ... if someone sends you 2 or 3 very large emails, just after Gmail has done it's fetch, and your mailbox is full, you are now "at risk" until Google checks again ( which could be anything up to an hour ).

Personally, I'd rather ditch using ISP emails and have something I can control myself !

gwapenut

AlanS wrote: »

I stand corrected .. you're right !

But I also read this:

"However, Gmail by default fetches your mail only once every hour."

and Google themselves state "Gmail checks each account at different rates, which are based on previous attempts to fetch new messages; you can't choose the frequency."

So ... if someone sends you 2 or 3 very large emails, just after Gmail has done it's fetch, and your mailbox is full, you are now "at risk" until Google checks again ( which could be anything up to an hour ).

Personally, I'd rather ditch using ISP emails and have something I can control myself !

But how is this different from normal usage of your O2 account? Most people are not checking for mail 24 hours a day, some leave their computers off for days at a time rather than just even overnight.

You run the same risk whenever you have an email account with a low limit, whether it'syour primary account or not.

AlanS

gwapenut wrote: »

But how is this different from normal usage of your O2 account? Most people are not checking for mail 24 hours a day, some leave their computers off for days at a time rather than just even overnight.

You run the same risk whenever you have an email account with a low limit, whether it'syour primary account or not.

The current size of my O2 mailbox is 1024Mb .... even if I didn't check my email for a month, I doubt it would get anywhere near full !

O2 will be reducing the mailbox size from 1024Mb down to 20Mb .... that's quite a reduction and in my opinion renders in unusable, as it can fill up with just a handful of emails.

My Gmail mailbox size is 10Gb

chambta

A second call today got me the free broadband for a year but sadly no £100 credit.

I_luv_cats

chambta wrote: »

A second call today got me the free broadband for a year but sadly no £100 credit.

Some bods on HOTUK said the £100 deal ended yesterday. (somebody got the £50 m+s)



When will the £100 be credited and is there a way of checking it has been added, other than waiting for your next bill??