Business E-mail provider.........bl**dy Orange closing

[ewald]

I am in a similar position - we have a Freeserve address that has been in use for many years - but am inclined to go with one of the big providers (outlook, gmail etc) on the basis that they are likely to be always there and should have the resources to resist hackers and provide security updates.
Contacts in the industry have suggested that some of the custom providers are one man with some rented server space - if they are hacked you could lose service and any stored emails
I don't like the thought of providing google and microsoft with even more private information though - they are already scarily well informed about us. Or am I being paranoid?

 

[Dave645]

I have used. Gmail accounts for a few years, I find they filter most if not all of the junk emails, by that you just don't see them or get them.
I use several, so I can keep my personal one as clean as possible, I add a .car, .ebay, .home, and .amazon to my various names I use, so it may go [email protected], but I may have [email protected] variation. So if you are signing up to something and they require an email address I can give them a non personal email address.
As protection goes they are backed up all over the world on googles servers it would take big problems to lose an email, security is great turn on two step and link to your mobile phone number, you get texts and emails if someone try's to hack your account, or if you sign in from a new tablet or phone, apps often let you manage 3-4 accounts no problem, I even just email my self important docs, as cloud storage, with I think 7gig of storage even after 10 years I am no where near full.

 

[Married 2 The Mob]

After having had and using an fsmail.net e mail address from orange for about 15 years they are it appears going to just turn off the server on May 31st for all their email addresses suffixed as these.
Orange.net

• Orangehome.co.uk

• Wanadoo.co.uk

• Freeserve.co.uk

• Fsbusiness.co.uk

• Fslife.co.uk

• Fsmail.net

• Fsworld.co.uk

• Fsnet.co.uk

Closure will entail the loss of all email addresses held on their server and stored e mails.

Their only recommendation is a gmail address, yet some say that financial institutions wont accept gmail addresses

What is the best alternative?

Like you, I am loosing my orange.net after many years. I am switching to a custom email and domain name administered through gmail. So far so good. No financial institution has kicked off .........yet.

 

[Av Gorritt]

I bought my own domain from 1 and 1 years ago , and have it hosted by Zen internet with whom I have my broadband and land line . Quite easy to do , and I've never had the least trouble with any of it Zen aren't necessarily the cheapest , but for me , that isn't the criterion , reliability and continuity is . All you need to do is decide what you would like as your domain , say your surname or your farm name for instance , and then check it's availability - may be that xxxx dot com is, or perhaps xxxxdot co uk , then simlpy register it with, again, say 1 and 1 - I think it will be about £4 / year , and then ask your choice of provider to host it . Job done .

 

[Penmoel]

@Dr Evil has sorted it for me, don't ask me how but he has transferred the 2000 plus old e mails over to a new gmail account . fsmail.net was becoming a pain with limited storage etc , end of Orange.

We had the account as an add on to a new mobile phone contract which promised free home broadband for life whilst we had the phone contract, to date this remains in place although they did once try to stop it but user uproar prevented it.

Just like independence referendums doubt they will try again one day

 

[Dr Evil]

@Dr Evil has sorted it for me, don't ask me how but he has transferred the 2000 plus old e mails over to a new gmail account . fsmail.net was becoming a pain with limited storage etc , end of Orange.

We had the account as an add on to a new mobile phone contract which promised free home broadband for life whilst we had the phone contract, to date this remains in place although they did once try to stop it but user uproar prevented it.

Just like independence referendums doubt they will try again one day

Was pretty straight forward, with a guide on how to do it coming up after a quick google. Did think last night mind- I'm not sure what's happened with the sent messages in your fsmail box... Will need to check if they have arrived..

Best to make the move asap though I'd say- the sooner you get contacts switched over to the new email address the better, and the less chance you have of an email slipping through the net from June onwards.

 

[Penmoel]

Sent mail does not seem to have come over. Or the contact addresses?

Where is the address book on gmail

 

[Dave645]

Sent mail does not seem to have come over. Or the contact addresses?

Where is the address book on gmail

If you need to you can go in to your old account and forward them to your new email manually.
The address book on gmail is linked in when you hit the recipient part of the email header on the iPad/iPhone app if you start typing it pulls a list up starting at the first letter, you type.
Other versions on windows have a dialog box that opens, just search the help files you will find it.
The search at the top in windows is very handy it can search for words in emails so even if your looking for an old email but you know the subject just use a few key words often shortens the list, or you can do it by who you were talking to.
Don't forget to add labels telling the app it's shopping work or junk, and family. In the iPad app it's, the white dots just above the email top right, use these to filter mail into groups, that way you don't get rubbish filling you main mail list, all them Facebook notifications can go into social......

 

[Pheasant Surprise]

This looks a reasonable fudge...

 

[Dr Evil]

This looks a reasonable fudge...

Thanks for that-

Will give it a try later on.

Just goes to show- there's nothing that can't be solved by a quick google (apart from the radio problem in my Hilux- which google's never heard of..!)

 

[SilliamWhale]

I wouldn't worry about finanical institutions not liking gmail i'm sure they've used plenty. Maybe they require a bit more security to start with thats all.