Virgin email closing down

J_B

Just tried my onetel.com email address

Technical details:

- Error message for [J_B @onetel.com]
    SMTP error from remote server for RCPT TO command, host: mx004.tt.xion.oxcs.net (135.125.7.164) reason: 550 5.5.1 Recipient rejected - OXSEU001_403 - https://postmaster-oxseu.vad
    esecure.com/inbound_error_codes/#_403

Newcad

I agree that getting your own domain with emai included is the way to go. (You don't need to put a website up, just use the email).

I was also an Orange customer and when they closed their email I thought 'Never want that to happen again' so got a domain with 1&1, now IONOS. It currently costs me £12 a year.

I do also have a gmail for shopping etc. which is set to automatically forward to my domain email. (So I can simply abandon the gmail and start another with a different name if ever needed).

sausage_time

Has anyone heard about this directly from VM? All I have seen is the Register article (which I don't doubt). I won't be too sorry to see its demise - I use their SMTP server for some sundry tasks but can easily move.

What's ironic about all this is that Virgin email was previously a thin veneer on top of the Gmail platform.

https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2015/07/21/google-dumps-isp-email-support-virgin-media-takes-ball-stomps-home/1417980

Neil_Jones

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82132547#Comment_82132547

And viola:

https://news.virginmediao2.co.uk/helping-customers-understand-upcoming-changes-to-their-virgin-media-email-services/

But most ISP email has been repackaged something else for a while (or have since farmed it off). Sky uses Yahoo, BT used to be BT Yahoo and TalkTalk recently shovelled their email offerings off to Everymail, though I'm sure it had a few providers. Plusnet shifted their offerings to Greenby.