Readers’ comments
Mar 11, 2021
4 minutes
You’ve got mail
Pete Mitchell’s letter (see issue 317, p22) bemoans the withdrawal of mail forwarding from Yahoo Mail. Surely the first alternative is to use a mail fetcher process in another mail service to get the emails from the Yahoo account? The only downside is that emails may take a few minutes longer to arrive.
Many email providers have shut down, sometimes with quite short notice. That includes email provided with broadband accounts such as Tiscali, Orange, Freeserve, Wanadoo and Demon Internet. If you choose to change broadband provider, you’ll likely be charged if you want to keep the associated email address. I believe BT charges £7.50 a month if you wish
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