Verizon handed their email service over to AOL some years ago. I wonder if this will be the end for my unused @verizon.com account.
Verizon handed their email service over to AOL some years ago. I wonder if this will be the end for my unused @verizon.com account.
AOL mail and Verizon mail had both been migrated to the yahoo mail backend when I left the company. This one kind of feels like a weird acquisition to me as that’s the story for a lot of AOL properties these days - a differently branded front end to the same services as their Yahoo counterpart. It would surely be much more costly to run AOL outside Yahoo as now you need to spread the costs of maintaining all that across fewer users
Somehow, my very first email, Hotmail (which was the only option when I got it really) is the only one from the 90s that is still kicking.
Yahoo! Mail is still working
That’s true. I mean it does get hacked every week, but it does still function.
Earthlink remains great.
> Verizon handed their email service over to AOL some years ago. I wonder if this will be the end for my unused @verizon.com account.
Yeah. I have some biz clients with long-held verizon.net email accounts. Ever since 2017, verizon.net has felt like some barely-there netherverse, where the laws of physics keep upending themselves for funsies.
In this analogy, the laws of physics are pop/imap/smtp settings (and auth req), which aren't at all well-tethered. I suspect the engineers have the server settings printed on D&D dice; I think they reroll their mail servers whenever the game isn't exciting enough.
So what happens to those biz email accounts now - now that the entire AOL snowglobe has been picked up by a different corporate toddler? I have no way to tell.