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Eir to charge customers €5.99 per month

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    #422
    Radio5
    Registered Users Posts: 1,951 ✭✭✭Radio5


    If you decide not to avail of the new eircom.net email service you can download your eircom.net email data to your personal storage before the 1st of July 2020, as you will no longer have access to the old service.

    How does one download this data?

    I've reactivated a gmail account and diverted my eircom.net email to it and that's working fine. But I have a lot of stuff in older emails that I need to keep. I also thought this was a scam initially as there have been quite a few pretending to be eircom.


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    #423
    swoofer
    Registered Users Posts: 5,452 ✭✭✭swoofer


    Radio 5 have you got an e mail client like windows live? What OS do you have? Im windows 8.1 and 7.


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    #424
    JimmyCorkhill
    Registered Users Posts: 373 ✭✭JimmyCorkhill


    Those that are migrating elsewhere, what email provider are you going to?


    Gmail, Outlook or something else?


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    #425
    Declan A Walsh
    Registered Users Posts: 6,052 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    JimmyCorkhill wrote: »
    Those that are migrating elsewhere, what email provider are you going to?


    Gmail, Outlook or something else?

    I went with Gmail. Fingers crossed. The biggest pain about all this is informing/amending all the parties that need to know the change of e-mail. We get so much by e-mail these days. Paper bills never had this problem!
    https://forumofgames.com/




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    #426
    SCOOP 64
    Registered Users Posts: 5,244 ✭✭✭SCOOP 64


    JimmyCorkhill wrote: »
    Those that are migrating elsewhere, what email provider are you going to?
    Gmail, Outlook or something else?


    All ready had a gmail account so this is now my main email, had to change from standard view though, found it runs better.


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    #427
    shivermetimber
    Registered Users Posts: 270 ✭✭shivermetimber


    I'll probably have to help the aul lad get his e-mails to safety and set him up with something else before this kicks in. Does anyone know if this will work? https://www.howtogeek.com/436947/how-to-import-an-old-email-account-into-gmail/


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    #428
    SCOOP 64
    Registered Users Posts: 5,244 ✭✭✭SCOOP 64


    JimmyCorkhill wrote: »
    Those that are migrating elsewhere, what email provider are you going to?


    Gmail, Outlook or something else?



    All ready had a Gmail account which i never used,so this is now my main email, had to change from standard view though,find now it runs better.


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    #429
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 34,642 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Got my own domain, €6.95 a year and €9.99 a year for email hosting with Blacknight.

    Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.



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    #430
    Radio5
    Registered Users Posts: 1,951 ✭✭✭Radio5


    swoofer wrote: »
    Radio 5 have you got an e mail client like windows live? What OS do you have? Im windows 8.1 and 7.

    No.
    I have Windows 10 Home.


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    #431
    BailMeOut
    Registered Users Posts: 2,984 ✭✭✭BailMeOut


    Hotblack Desiato wrote: »
    Got my own domain, €6.95 a year and €9.99 a year for email hosting with Blacknight.

    get rid of Blacknight email and host your domain at Zoho for free which is a far superior email service.


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    #432
    HildaOgdenx
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,919 Mod ✭✭✭✭HildaOgdenx


    shivermetimber wrote: »
    I'll probably have to help the aul lad get his e-mails to safety and set him up with something else before this kicks in. Does anyone know if this will work? https://www.howtogeek.com/436947/how-to-import-an-old-email-account-into-gmail/

    Yes, that's what I did, following advice on another thread.

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=112897411&postcount=48


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    #433
    Fogmatic
    Registered Users Posts: 986 ✭✭✭Fogmatic


    HildaOgdenx wrote: »
    Yes, that's what I did, following advice on another thread.

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=112897411&postcount=48
    Re the tip about having eir email open as well, I've found it helps a lot with the whole migration to have it ready opened in a second browser, so as not to leave either page. Most of the websites I use have sent their confirmation emails to my new address, but some send them to the old eircom/eir one, and some have only been valid briefly. (There doesn't seem to be any pattern to which type of website does what!).


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    #434
    Gadgetman496
    Registered Users Posts: 8,392 ✭✭✭Gadgetman496


    BailMeOut wrote: »
    get rid of Blacknight email and host your domain at Zoho for free which is a far superior email service.

    Can you host an existing Blacknight domain on Zoho for free?

    Is there much involved in transferring one over from Blacknight?

    "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."



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    #435
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 34,642 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    BailMeOut wrote: »
    get rid of Blacknight email and host your domain at Zoho for free which is a far superior email service.

    If I wanted a dodgy 'free' email service I'd have gone with Gmail.

    Remember, if you're not paying for it, you are the product...

    Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.



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    #436
    dave1982
    Registered Users Posts: 4,604 ✭✭✭dave1982


    I diverted my eircom years to Gmail but I've stopped getting mails since 14th May. Anyone else having same problem? I can't remember my login details and security questions so I'm totally locked out. Tried contacting eircom but due to covid they not supporting email queries
    Disaster cause someone putting up fake reviews on my amazon and of course that's registered to my amazon so account and no access to eircom so I can't change passwords


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    #437
    Radio5
    Registered Users Posts: 1,951 ✭✭✭Radio5


    Does this mean that your eircom address won't be valid anymore ? So any emails sent to eircom.net after July won't be diverted to gmail at all... Will they just bounce back to the sender as 'not valid' ?


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    #438
    Spocker
    Moderators Posts: 6,859 ✭✭✭Spocker


    Radio5 wrote: »
    Does this mean that your eircom address won't be valid anymore ? So any emails sent to eircom.net after July won't be diverted to gmail at all... Will they just bounce back to the sender as 'not valid' ?

    Thats correct, unless you pony up the money


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    #439
    Spocker
    Moderators Posts: 6,859 ✭✭✭Spocker


    dave1982 wrote: »
    I diverted my eircom years to Gmail but I've stopped getting mails since 14th May. Anyone else having same problem? I can't remember my login details and security questions so I'm totally locked out. Tried contacting eircom but due to covid they not supporting email queries
    Disaster cause someone putting up fake reviews on my amazon and of course that's registered to my amazon so account and no access to eircom so I can't change passwords

    Just change your Amazon account to your gmail email address? Or you can't because you have to verify via eircom?


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    #440
    gingernut79
    Registered Users Posts: 961 ✭✭✭gingernut79


    Spocker wrote: »
    Just change your Amazon account to your gmail email address? Or you can't because you have to verify via eircom?

    Can you log into amazon and see if their customer service can help you out?


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    #441
    dave1982
    Registered Users Posts: 4,604 ✭✭✭dave1982


    Spocker wrote: »
    Just change your Amazon account to your gmail email address? Or you can't because you have to verify via eircom?

    Yep can't cause need verify via eircom. Was onto amazon nd they want nothing do with it


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    #442
    Spocker
    Moderators Posts: 6,859 ✭✭✭Spocker


    dave1982 wrote: »
    Yep can't cause need verify via eircom. Was onto amazon nd they want nothing do with it

    Signup for a month, to allow the emails to flow through, and then you can cancel?


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    #443
    GinSoaked
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,049 ✭✭✭GinSoaked


    dave1982 wrote: »
    I diverted my eircom years to Gmail but I've stopped getting mails since 14th May. Anyone else having same problem? I can't remember my login details and security questions so I'm totally locked out. Tried contacting eircom but due to covid they not supporting email queries
    Disaster cause someone putting up fake reviews on my amazon and of course that's registered to my amazon so account and no access to eircom so I can't change passwords

    Any chance you have an old device like a laptop with the email client like Outlook that you used to connect to eircom and then use the old style show password tools to find the password?

    Alternatively if you said yes to chrome saving the password when you set the "Check mail from other accounts:" dialog in gmail then there is a chance you can find it in Chromes password list.


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    #444
    Fogmatic
    Registered Users Posts: 986 ✭✭✭Fogmatic


    dave1892; I'm still getting my eircom email, also a gmail account that pulls in my husband's eircom.net messages is till working (latest message June 9th - normal for him as his emails are infrequent anyway).

    Presumably you're still receiving other types of Gmail message? (if not, it could be a Google space problem).

    I don't suppose you have a Kindle, and a note of those credentials? (The same credentials are shared by Amazon shop, Appstore and Kindle).

    Are you using a phone for this? I found the passwords I'd agreed to saving in my Android one by enabling what it calls 'Developer options' (sort of Admin mode) in the phone settings. (It required some kind of phone security lock before it would show the passwords; a PIN sufficed in my case).


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    #445
    JimmyCorkhill
    Registered Users Posts: 373 ✭✭JimmyCorkhill


    Parents currently mostly access their emails on a desktop at home which has the Microsoft Outlook application.

    When abroad they would log onto the eircom webmail website and access their emails this way.

    Looking at migrating them to Gmail, but I noticed in the desktop computer Microsoft Outlook application they have multiple subfolders for categorising their emails and have emails going back a few years.

    However when I log into their email account on the eircom webmail site (Zimbra) they don't have all the subfolders and all the emails as per the desktop.

    Is there a way to migrate the emails from the desktop Microsoft Outlook application as that seems to have all their emails whereas the eircom webmail site does not.

    Thanks


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    #446
    REXER
    Registered Users Posts: 458 ✭✭REXER


    I have been unable to send emails since April, I get incoming mails ok but outgoing does not happen?


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    #447
    GinSoaked
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,049 ✭✭✭GinSoaked


    REXER wrote: »
    I have been unable to send emails since April, I get incoming mails ok but outgoing does not happen?

    If you have changed your internet provider then and aren't using eir broadband anymore then you will have to change the SMTP mail server you use to send outgoing email. A lot of ISP's have closed their SMTP servers so best option is to use eir's webmail.


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    #448
    Spocker
    Moderators Posts: 6,859 ✭✭✭Spocker


    JimmyCorkhill wrote: »
    Parents currently mostly access their emails on a desktop at home which has the Microsoft Outlook application.

    When abroad they would log onto the eircom webmail website and access their emails this way.

    Looking at migrating them to Gmail, but I noticed in the desktop computer Microsoft Outlook application they have multiple subfolders for categorising their emails and have emails going back a few years.

    However when I log into their email account on the eircom webmail site (Zimbra) they don't have all the subfolders and all the emails as per the desktop.

    Is there a way to migrate the emails from the desktop Microsoft Outlook application as that seems to have all their emails whereas the eircom webmail site does not.

    Thanks

    Try this: https://www.agnesscott.edu/its/files/documents/131203_Gmail_Personal_Folders_Migration.pdf

    Some other links I found:
    https://sites.google.com/a/tc.columbia.edu/tcapps2/outlook
    https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/01/moving-pst-files-into-gmail-you-can-try-this-at-home/34209/


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    #449
    Rainbowshimmer
    Registered Users Posts: 30 ✭Rainbowshimmer


    Can anybody who has imported emails to gmail tell me how long the process took about? I’ve been telling my parents to sort through their emails so that I could forward any that they wanted to keep but they haven’t, so I want to import them all in case they have anything important.


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    #450
    silver2020
    Registered Users Posts: 2,045 ✭✭✭silver2020


    an alternative I saw a report on in the Irish times is hey.com

    It's a paid service too, but has huge number of features and you can stop spam very easily. Basically you have to approve all new senders.

    Also as its new, you can get a lot of short addresses. I even got my first name and herself got her first name too - We both have reasonably unusual names


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    #451
    GinSoaked
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,049 ✭✭✭GinSoaked


    silver2020 wrote: »
    an alternative I saw a report on in the Irish times is hey.com

    It's a paid service too, but has huge number of features and you can stop spam very easily. Basically you have to approve all new senders.

    Also as its new, you can get a lot of short addresses. I even got my first name and herself got her first name too - We both have reasonably unusual names

    NO THANKS at $99 a year compared to €72 for Eir its making Eir look like a bargain. At first glance hey.com looks like a rip off and at that price it doesn't get a second look.


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