Fairpoint Preps For Final Verizon Switchover

It still surprises me that people in this day and age continue to rely on their ISP for email. With all of the free alternatives out there, like Gmail, Hotmail or Yahoo Mail, why would anyone want to be attached to ISP email and all the hassles that come with it?

They don't know any better...

Remember the Internet is Plug n Pray.

I agree about decoupling email from ISP, that is one of the reasons I registered a domain name years ago.

However if email persistence it not important there is nothing wrong with using your ISP mail account and it provides one-stop shopping. It is easy for some of us to overlook just how overwhelming Internet access can be. Great strides have been made to make it easier but to the uninitiated it is still a pretty daunting task. As far as Portals are concerned I've never used one so I'm hard pressed to say what the advantage is.

From the FairPoint brochure I received the only thing changing is email domain name, and folks using portals will no longer be able to access email from the portal. FairPoint is migrating settings, even passphase to new environment.

What I found interesting is there is no mention about changing PPPoE log in. That means FairPoint is either moving to open PPPoE or will continue to accept Verizon as the domain name.

/tom

I keep 2 Comcast email addresses - 1 for communication from Comcast about official policy changes, etc(my original email addr from 8 yrs ago) and 1 I use when I never want to see email from web page signups(that mail all goes in to the bit bucket).

I use Gmail for all my personal email needs and forward the 1 official Comcast mail addr to that.

"Verizon customers are simply losing access to IMAP-based ISP-email through third party webmail vendors." Maybe its lost in translation but how is this not blocking access to third pary webmail services? I am googling "IMAP" and it reads like customers of Fairpoint will lose functionality. Clarify please in english what is not being lost.