3Bb No Longer Supporting Pop3 Email?

[iang]

I just received this email in from 3BB this morning:

เรียน ท่านผู้ใช้บริการ 3BB POP3 E Mail

บริษัทฯ ขอเรียนแจ้งให้ท่านทราบว่า บริการเสริม 3BB POP3 E Mail

Account: [email protected] (not my actual email address)

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It basically stated that my POP3 email account [email protected] will be closed by 3BB on June 30, 2012 & suggesting I back up any important data!

Has anyone else received such a notice & if so, do you know if there's any other contingency or alternative service being offered?

I also have one of the original [email protected] accounts, which still functions, but presume this will also be lost on 30 June 12?

[Lite Beer]

Moved to the Computer Forum where you should get more help.

[NanLaew]

Get a gmail account and that will give you a web-based email client with the ability to receive your new email via a pop3 client such as Outlook, Thunderbird, etc.. It's free and flexible and IMHO more reliable than most pop3 only services.

[iang]

Get a gmail account and that will give you a web-based email client with the ability to receive your new email via a pop3 client such as Outlook, Thunderbird, etc.. It's free and flexible and IMHO more reliable than most pop3 only services.

I did get all of that with 3BB - both web based & POP3 into my Outlook. Pretty reliable too. But perhaps the Gmail competition is why 3BB are seemingly looking like giving up on their POP3 service? Being 3BB, I suppose I should thank my good fortune that they actually advised of this in advance!? There's just 10 years of email address history & subscriptions etc to now put right.......

[OriginalPoster]

Gmail is free and solves that problem completely.

[iang]

Gmail is free and solves that problem completely.

Operationally it does. What it doesn't do is inform & update every person I've given my old tttmaxnet / 3BB email address to over the past 10 years, or update every membership or profile I have......

Surprising that no one else has commented on the actual cancellation of the 3BB POP3 service, rather than giving (excellent) alternatives. There must be many 3BB (and older TTTMaxnet) POP3 email users out there..... Or maybe they just don't know?

Anyway, time to move on & start trying get everything updated with replacement Gmail address........

[GuyL]

It's often not a good idea to have an email address provided by one specific ISP. In your case, your ISP is going to terminate its email service, but you could have been changing your ISP too, or relocate elsewhere and not being able to use the same ISP and the same mailbox at your new location, for instance. A problem that you won't have with Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc.

[astral]

Install an e-mail client like Thunderbird

This will allow you to download all your e-mails stored with 3BB

onto your own machine.

Set a up a new mail account with GMail

add the new account into Thunderbird, so it reads new e-mails for you

then let all your friends know your new address.

[iang]

After having a whinge to 3BB they actually just called me (yes, a phone call!) to tell me the email had been sent to me in error and that they weren't discontinuing my POP3 email account after all!

Another case of 'Amazing Thailand'!

All really too late though, as I've already migrated everything over to Gmail & told all my contacts etc.... Which in reality is not such a bad thing anyway & gives me everything I need & as GuyL says above, it now gives me the flexibility to more easily change my ISP if the need arises. So I'll just continue to monitor my old 3BB / TTT Maxnet account for a while and redirect anyone I've missed onto the new Gmail account.

[robblok]

After having a whinge to 3BB they actually just called me (yes, a phone call!) to tell me the email had been sent to me in error and that they weren't discontinuing my POP3 email account after all!

Another case of 'Amazing Thailand'!

All really too late though, as I've already migrated everything over to Gmail & told all my contacts etc.... Which in reality is not such a bad thing anyway & gives me everything I need & as GuyL says above, it now gives me the flexibility to more easily change my ISP if the need arises. So I'll just continue to monitor my old 3BB / TTT Maxnet account for a while and redirect anyone I've missed onto the new Gmail account.

After having a whinge to 3BB they actually just called me (yes, a phone call!) to tell me the email had been sent to me in error and that they weren't discontinuing my POP3 email account after all!

Another case of 'Amazing Thailand'!

All really too late though, as I've already migrated everything over to Gmail & told all my contacts etc.... Which in reality is not such a bad thing anyway & gives me everything I need & as GuyL says above, it now gives me the flexibility to more easily change my ISP if the need arises. So I'll just continue to monitor my old 3BB / TTT Maxnet account for a while and redirect anyone I've missed onto the new Gmail account.

Just let your GMAIL check your pop3 Works good too.

[iang]

Thanks robblok - am pleased to confirm that the Gmail POP3 & SMTP works absolutely perfectly.