Eir to charge customers €5.99 per month

Spear

Dempo1 wrote: »

Was that not Ireland on line? not sure, Eir want rid of eircom.net, I'm not sure why they just haven't closed it down, there must be some regulatory obstacle. Who in there right mind would pay €5 pm let alone €10pm for a s**** email service, I get why some initially had to hold on due to verifications, logins etc but no excuses anymore

No, Eir own and run the Indigo service. Black Knight got the IOL email service, among other legacy services.

Mav11

Spear wrote: »

No, Eir own and run the Indigo service. Black Knight got the IOL email service, among other legacy services.

I’m still using it, I find it useful for signing up to things that I don’t intend to use for too long.

lukin

Dempo1 wrote: »

Who in there right mind would pay €5 pm let alone €10pm for a s**** email service, I get why some initially had to hold on due to verifications, logins etc but no excuses anymore

Because some people (like me) have had their eir email address for about 20 years and it's not really a runner to just use another email address in it's place.
Ransomware by stealth really.

28064212

lukin wrote: »

Because some people (like me) have had their eir email address for about 20 years and it's not really a runner to just use another email address in it's place.
Ransomware by stealth really.

There's a strong possibility that Eir are going to shut the service down permanently anyway in the short-to-medium-term. You're likely just putting off the inevitable, and paying handsomely for the privilege

Dempo1

Spear wrote: »

No, Eir own and run the Indigo service. Black Knight got the IOL email service, among other legacy services.

Not sure why I thought indigo was iol, gosh that's a plast from the past, genuinely didn't know it was still active, thanks for clarification

Dempo1

lukin wrote: »

Because some people (like me) have had their eir email address for about 20 years and it's not really a runner to just use another email address in it's place.
Ransomware by stealth really.

I appreciate that but surely there must be alternatives (free), I understand some are nervous about Gmail but I've never had any issues, there are occasional bursts of spam but the filter catches them, I'm no IT expert but obviously would not open emails from unknown sources, click on links etc. But I do appreciate changing email address not always straight forward.

Mav11

Dempo1 wrote: »

But I do appreciate changing email address not always straight forward.

In hindsight it took me a good 6 months to move everything to gmail. You would be surprised at the number of services that will not allow a change, particularly if using your email address as your user name.

adrian92

Gadgetman496 wrote: »

While people still using eir email accounts but intend to let them go, make sure to remember to check you are not using those addresses as the secondary address for account recovery options with any other provider or Apps.

If you have any, now would be a good time to change them.

As someone else said, it is like ransom

JimmyCorkhill

lukin wrote: »

Because some people (like me) have had their eir email address for about 20 years and it's not really a runner to just use another email address in it's place.
Ransomware by stealth really.

Similarly the parents have had a family eircom email address for over 20 years. When the initial 5eur a month charge came I paid it with the intention of transferring them over to another provider but still have not got around to it.

Going to have to move them now, I know they use the email address for airlines, golf clubs and probably loads more.

Is gmail the best alternative?
How hard to transfer all their emails across?
On the house pc they use outlook app to access their emails so I presume I can set gmail up there if I go with gmail?

Eir definitely want out of the email/webmail or else they see lots of older people they can target who will pay it.

dazberry

Dear eircom.net customer,

We are writing to let you know that the monthly charge for webmail is increasing by €4.

These changes are effective from the 1st July 2021.The new amount will be applied automatically after the 1st of July 2021, no further action is required.

If you do not accept these changes you may cancel your account with us by logging into your account management page on the webmail login page as below and selecting cancel. Please note if you cancel you will no longer have access to your sent or received emails or webmail account.

eir remains committed to providing webmail for its customers.

€9.99 per months - wow - what a bargain :rolleyes:

I've everything moved a good while but hadn't bothered cancelling - this focuses the mind

habanerocat

JimmyCorkhill wrote: »

Similarly the parents have had a family eircom email address for over 20 years. When the initial 5eur a month charge came I paid it with the intention of transferring them over to another provider but still have not got around to it.

Going to have to move them now, I know they use the email address for airlines, golf clubs and probably loads more.

Is gmail the best alternative?
How hard to transfer all their emails across?
On the house pc they use outlook app to access their emails so I presume I can set gmail up there if I go with gmail?

Eir definitely want out of the email/webmail or else they see lots of older people they can target who will pay it.

I weighed Gmail up against Outlook at the time, but as I use the Outlook app on the PC I went with that. Well I think that was the reason anyway.



My main point being that it was easy to transfer all the existing emails over and it has worked flawlessly ever since.

Vologda69

Service has been patchy for weeks. Finally deleted the last of my emails. But of course the 'Cancel subscription' button doesn't even work. Wouldn't expect anything less from Eir.

westgolf

Down for the last 12 hours, "- will be down for a little while pease try again later"