How do I access/manage email aliases?
It would be nice if VirginMedia/O2 issued clear instructions regarding VM/O2 Identity creation for management of email aliases.
At the moment, I have successfully created a VM/O2 ID for my primary account, I can log in OK and access/manage the primary email account.
I also have several aliases, which at the moment are all able to receive and send emails via my PC and mobile clients.
However there seems to be no way to be able to manage these additional aliases via the primary account, which used to be the case before VM/O2 decided to wind up the email service.
My email aliases have multiple uses all over the web, (logins, registrations etc) and losing them and having to substitute "third party addresses" would be a nightmare!
I have read alsewhere that a separate VM/O2 ID needs to be created for each alias.
So, my questions are
1 ) If it aint broke, should I fix it? (In other words, since everything is working OK just now, do I need to create VM/O2 IDs for each alias?). More importantly, will the alias email addresses remain the same if I do?)
2) If YES, how do I do this safely without screwing up my primary login and/or all the aliases!! Clear instructions please!
3) If NO, (which seems to be the case since everything works (for now), how long have I got before I am forced to create these ID thingys (which seem totally unnecessary to me)
Kind Regards
Dave Nash
As I previously understood it, a VM/O2 ID would have to be a third party email address (e.g. Outlook, Gmail).
Not necessarily, I have seven additional email accounts on blueyonder and virginmedia domains and none of them use a third party email address as the VMO2ID. Only my primary account has a third party VMO2ID.
You will need to use a third party email address as the backup email address when going through the VMO2ID initial process, however you can use the same backup email for all the accounts if you so choose.
