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Changing from bt broadband affecting yahoo email accounts???

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  • DCFC79
    DCFC79 Posts: 40,644 Forumite
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    edited 11 August 2019 at 4:58PM
    Photoframe55 wrote: »
    Thanks for that. What is a mail program please? How do I download my account on to that?
    Could you elaborate anymore on how I do it. I'm sorry to sound completely thick. Thanks. X


    As Annie says Thunderbird is 1.


    Id point you in the direction of youtube for a how to video unless someone has a link for it.
  • Photoframe55
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    Thanks. Should have thought of that!!
  • Norman_Castle
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    Colin_Maybe wrote: »
    Yep, because it's a BT supplied Yahoo account. You should never use an ISP supplied email account.
    I've only ever had a BT landline and a plusnet internet account. I've had a yahoo email account for years. If I change my landline and broadband provider will I lose my Yahoo email account?
  • Mutton_Geoff
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    Norman_Castle wrote: »
    I've only ever had a BT landline and a plusnet internet account. I've had a yahoo email account for years. If I change my landline and broadband provider will I lose my Yahoo email account?

    Yes, BT will pull the plug on you unless you pay them £7.50 a month for a premium account if you’re with another ISP.
    Signature on holiday for two weeks
  • Norman_Castle
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    Mutton_Geoff wrote: »
    Yes, BT will pull the plug on you unless you pay them £7.50 a month for a premium account if you’re with another ISP.
    I've never had BT internet so always been with another ISP. Has yahoo been free for me because of the BT landline?
  • oldernonethewiser
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    Norman_Castle wrote: »
    I've only ever had a BT landline and a plusnet internet account. I've had a yahoo email account for years. If I change my landline and broadband provider will I lose my Yahoo email account?


    If it is a standalone Yahoo account (not one organised through BT) then no you won't lose it. I have changed ISP many times over the years and still have my Yahoo email.
    Things that are differerent: draw & drawer, brought & bought, loose & lose, dose & does, payed & paid


  • Norman_Castle
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    oldernonethewiser wrote: »
    If it is a standalone Yahoo account (not one organised through BT) then no you won't lose it. I have changed ISP many times over the years and still have my Yahoo email.
    Have you always had a BT landline?
  • JJ_Egan
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    EMail comes with BB not the landline .
  • oldernonethewiser
    oldernonethewiser Posts: 2,591 Forumite
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    Norman_Castle wrote: »
    Have you always had a BT landline?
    No


    You don't need a landline or even broadband to have an email address.
    Things that are differerent: draw & drawer, brought & bought, loose & lose, dose & does, payed & paid


  • anniecave
    anniecave Posts: 2,485 Forumite
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    Norman_Castle wrote: »
    I've only ever had a BT landline and a plusnet internet account. I've had a yahoo email account for years. If I change my landline and broadband provider will I lose my Yahoo email account?


    As said above, if you signed up to yahoo email rather than it being provided to you as part of a broadband package, then no, you won't lose it by changing your internet provider.
    Indecision is the key to flexibility :)
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