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Chris-5471
Joining in
2 months ago

Virgin Email Closing Down?

I was told the other day by a Virgin Media IT guy that in 2025 (exact date unknown) Virgin will be closing all email accounts.  My VM email address ends in ntlworld.com so have been with them for dec...
Email service closing
  • goslow's avatar
    goslow
    2 months ago

    VM is currently very busy closing down VM mailboxes which are not linked to a current broadband account.

    Those who are currently VM broadband customers and whose mailboxes are associated with the broadband account are not at risk in the current round of mailbox closures.

    Some who do have current VM broadband are being caught in the current mailbox closures if their mailbox has been 'orphaned' from the current VM broadband account

    https://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Email/Orphan-Email-accounts/td-p/3492073

    You can check the mailboxes currently associated with your VM broadband (via the primary 'My Virgin Media' login).

    As a separate issue, VM is asking customers to provide a third party email address as a 'security' feature to run alongside VM email addresses (using the third party email address as a webmail login name and also generating an app password to use with email clients).

    No long term plans to close VM email have been disclosed by VM, AFAIK, but the general direction of travel, and all the recent changes, suggest it may not have a long term future.

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Tudor
Very Insightful Person
2 months ago

1) VM have not announced close of any of their products email address.

2) VM are not issuing VM addresses to new customers.

Read what you like into that.

I have never used the email address supplied by VM, I have my own domains and email. Regardless of the current system I have always advised people to get their own email separately from their ISP. Users should realise that an email system is not the place to archive data and any critical data should be downloaded to your own system and also backed up.