Delete eircom.net email address

dod

Righty,

I set up an eircom.net email address & posted it on a webpage recently. Now that address is getting ridiculous volumes of spam (spam started arriving within 18 hours of the addy being posted on the page!), so I want to delete the email address & set up another one.

OK so I can remove the addy from my mail client, but then the pop3 account will just fill up with muck. Is anyone aware of how to actually remove the account from eircom.net so that email sent to it will just bounce back as 'address not found' ?

Thanks in advance.

meme

The best thing to do is to ring eircom and tell them that you dont want the e-mail address anymore or that you want to change it to a new one.

Red Alert

Let it fill with junk because AFAIK when the server registers that the account has not been accessed in a set number of days it will either delete the account or reject mail sent to it until its checked.

EDIT:
Forgot to add - next time, if you've got access to PHP or Perl on the web server you might be better off using a form to send mail to your account (Not a mailto: tho!!!) - that way they won't see you address until/if you reply!

seamus

PM sent

Frank Grimes

Originally posted by seamus
PM sent

Not going to share it with the rest of us?
dod, if you don't use it for a certain amount of days (90 I think), they automatically disable them.

The Insider

Its 30 days

Our man in Havana

Where does it say this?

seamus

It automatically disables all accounts after 90 days.

They never get deleted tho afaik. Ring 1550 233 233 if you want it reactivated

Our man in Havana

My experience, I left an eircom.net address fill with spam for 6 months and it was still active. why would they bother?

daveirl

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fixie fox

Hey, a search threw this up from 11 years ago. But I have the same question now.
My Eircom address in becoming choked with spam and I just want to get rid of it. Idontwant to just abandon it as people who might email me wouldn't know. I haven't been an eircom customer with years.

Xantia

One way is to get a gmail address
In the gmail settings get gmail to forward your eircom.net email address to your gmail address

fixie fox

Xantia wrote: »

One way is to get a gmail address
In the gmail settings get gmail to forward your eircom.net email address to your gmail address

And then I get all the spam via Gmail?
I have set up a gmail account as an alternative and started using - I've been trying to set it up as a POP account in Outlook but that's another story.
I just want to disable the eircom one - there must bd a way??

Frank Grimes

Well this is a blast from the past.

fixie fox wrote: »

And then I get all the spam via Gmail?

Gmail's spam filters are pretty good, I collect an old Yahoo email address via Gmail and it filters out the spam fine.

I just want to disable the eircom one - there must bd a way??

Assuming you know the password/security information etc. ring them and ask them to disable the email address, it used to be possible for them (i.e. tech support) to do it at least - I'm not sure what the case is now though.

Xantia

fixie fox wrote: »

And then I get all the spam via Gmail?
I have set up a gmail account as an alternative and started using - I've been trying to set it up as a POP account in Outlook but that's another story.
I just want to disable the eircom one - there must bd a way??

Very rarely would you get spam in a Gmail account.
Plus you do not need to download the email(s) to your PC and save them, they are in the cloud.
It's up to yourself of course.
Best of Luck

fixie fox

Frank Grimes wrote: »

Well this is a blast from the past.

Gmail's spam filters are pretty good, I collect an old Yahoo email address via Gmail and it filters out the spam fine.

Assuming you know the password/security information etc. ring them and ask them to disable the email address, it used to be possible for them (i.e. tech support) to do it at least - I'm not sure what the case is now though.

I tried 'ringing' at one stage but as I don't have an account with them (as in paying them for phone/broadband etc) I couldn't make any progress

fixie fox

Xantia wrote: »

Very rarely would you get spam in a Gmail account.
Plus you do not need to download the email(s) to your PC and save them, they are in the cloud.
It's up to yourself of course.
Best of Luck

I live out in the sticks with very poor connectivity - so the 'cloud' wouldn't be a great solution.

Frank Grimes

fixie fox wrote: »

I tried 'ringing' at one stage but as I don't have an account with them (as in paying them for phone/broadband etc) I couldn't make any progress

Does the tech support number (probably a premium number) not go straight through to them anymore? Just set it up in Gmail if you can't contact them.

Xantia

fixie fox wrote: »

I live out in the sticks with very poor connectivity - so the 'cloud' wouldn't be a great solution.

If you have very poor connectivity it is all the more reason to use an online account like gmail where you do not have to download the email to keep it on your pc

Spear

fixie fox wrote: »

Hey, a search threw this up from 11 years ago. But I have the same question now.
My Eircom address in becoming choked with spam and I just want to get rid of it. Idontwant to just abandon it as people who might email me wouldn't know. I haven't been an eircom customer with years.

That doesn't make it okay to dig up such ancient threads. Start a new one or just contact Eircom.