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Changes to Talk21 e-mail service
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I received an e-mail from BT yesterday to one of my Talk21 accounts.
It states that as of February 2004, if you want to continue to have POP3 access (i.e. via outlook/outlook express etc) to Talk21 you will have to pay £1.50 per month.
Talk21 (Basic)will continue as a free WEBMAIL service ONLY.
The new paid service will be called Talk21 Premium.
Apparently this is BT taking advantage of facilities made available to us by Yahoo! to ENHANCE the Talk21 email service.
For ENHANCE read CHARGE PEOPLE.
It states that as of February 2004, if you want to continue to have POP3 access (i.e. via outlook/outlook express etc) to Talk21 you will have to pay £1.50 per month.
Talk21 (Basic)will continue as a free WEBMAIL service ONLY.
The new paid service will be called Talk21 Premium.
Apparently this is BT taking advantage of facilities made available to us by Yahoo! to ENHANCE the Talk21 email service.
For ENHANCE read CHARGE PEOPLE.
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Sorry if there is anyone out there that emails me and I don''t respond I refuse to pay £1.50 to access my email using the way that I signed up for.
Sparkster :mad: :mad: :mad:
Sign up for a free PAYG ISP and then use that account for incoming and outgoing mail while connected to your preferred ISP.
"However, for security reasons, it is not possible to send from talk21 using SMTP if you use other ISPs such as Freeserve, AOL etc. If you are accessing the Internet using other ISPs and want to send email from your talk21 account you must use a WEB browser to access talk21 by logging on at www.talk21.com. "
My ISP is freeserve and I send mail from my talk21 account using OE with no problems at all. In my talk21 identity in OE, properties, server tab, I have changed it to read:
Incoming (POP3): in.talk21.com
Outgoing (SMTP): smpt.freeserve.com
Also, I recently tried to create a new talk21 account but was told it was not possible to do so anymore, but was offered a free btinternet.com or btopenworld.com account instead - I wonder if the POP3 restrictions will apply to them too.
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I've been on the net for 3 years and apart from my ISP costs have not spent a single penny on anything. I have all the programmes I need, and a wicked mp3/movie collection. I'm not relying on freebies, I just enjoy finding them - it's part of the buzz of being on the net
Changing your email address can be very high cost - you have to inform all your contacts and change the sign up address for a host of websites (that's the ones that even let you change email address). If you rely on email to do business it's even worse - I cringe whenever I see addresses like wigan_plumbers@hotmail.com on the back of vans. A quick search through any computing forum (including this one) will show you the number of times Hotmail goes down! Anyway, I never said there was anything stopping you from forwarding email to your own domain to a free email address because you can still swap it if you need to.
Just my 2p.
I haven't tried it recently, but I remember that when I used to use another ISP (can't remember which one) other than BT, Outlook Express wouldn't allow me to send or even pick up talk21 emails. The only reason I signed up to BT Internet was to allow me POP access for my talk21 email address.
I assume that if they are now going to charge £1.50 per month that it will be useable with any ISP. If that is the case I will be happy to pay £1.50 per month as I will save more than that by switching to a cheaper ISP option than BT.
Why not just as said previous purchase a domain, the can be done for £1.99 for two years.
You choose the email address etc you want.
Have a look here at OneAndOne.
Then through outlook etc just set the incomming mail (POP3 etc) to the specified domain service, and the out-going mail (smtp) to your current isp. (Freeserve,Virgin, BT etc...)
Note that's £1.99 per year for two years, and the prices exclude VAT. Nominet charges its member £5 for two years excluding VAT so if you see someone selling domains for less that this, you need to look very carefully. A few years ago a couple of ISPs gave away domains for free but locked you into their service with very high (think £90) release charges if you want to transfer your domain elsewhere.
Which works out at £4.68 for the two years. Which Includes all registration fees, 50 free email addresses, web & mail forwarding.
I have three domains from OneAndOne and have been happy.