 zepolantThis Is Near....This Is Far AwayPremium
join:2002-12-05
Cypress, CA | Canceling U-Verse and keeping email accounts I know this topic has been covered ad nauseam here, but I'm still not clear and from my most recent chat it would seem I will not be able to keep my email address, but here is my scenario.
I created my SBCGLOBAL accounts years ago when "high speed DSL" was available. Once we moved to a different part of the state (CA) U-verse was available so we went with that. When that account was created my SBCGLOBAL address is what I used to access my U-verse account to pay my bill, etc...
We moved again to another part of the city and the only U-verse service that was available was the internet. So when they created the account they screwed up my SBC account and I was not able to log in and they created an ATT.net account for me. They were able to unlock my account so I can still access my SBC account.
Fast forward a bit and we are moving again, this time to an area that AT&T does not provide the service (as it is Verizon). I never used the ATT.net address and really don't care if I lose that one, however the SBC accounts that my wife and I have are pretty much are main email accounts and I really can't afford to have those deleted. So I chatted with a rep and he asked me if my SBC account was merged with Yahoo! I told him it was...below is his response.
:If it was registered then it will also automatically get deleted.
:If no, then there would be no impact on your sbcglobal.net
Can someone please share any other info they may have or similar expereince as to what happened on your end? Again sorry for posting this topic up again, but most of the threads I was reading were on the older side. |
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| Cancelled AT&T late 2011 and still have the SBCglobal email account.
As long as your account is cancelled by you, you will keep the email account. |
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zepolantThis Is Near....This Is Far AwayPremium
join:2002-12-05
Cypress, CA | Thank you. To be on the safe side I'll have to create new accounts for my wife and myself and start migrating messages and contacts there (just in case it does get deleted) and let everyone know and then move forward with the cancellation. |
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Zoder
join:2002-04-16
Miami, FL | reply to GusHerb94
Can the accounts still be accessed with 3rd party email clients like Outlook after cancelling or only through yahoo.com? |
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 NormanSPremium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
kudos:6
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·Pacific Bell - SBC
| said by Zoder:Can the accounts still be accessed with 3rd party email clients like Outlook after cancelling or only through yahoo.com?
I have used Thunderbird, the Opera mail client, and Windows Live Mail for my '@pacbell.net' accounts.
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Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum |
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I haven't had Uverse in almost a year and I was able to log into my old Uverse email account. |
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This is why you NEVER use an ISP's email services. It's much more easier to obtain a domain and a hosting provider for the email. No worries about "losing the addresses". Time to purchase that domain and move on. |
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zepolantThis Is Near....This Is Far AwayPremium
join:2002-12-05
Cypress, CA | Yep, looking into some now so this never happens again. |
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