[plug] TPG group no longer providing email

[Byron Hammond]

I am with Aussie Broadband and they provide an email address.
Mind you I never use it because I use GMail and Yahoo for junk/spam, but it
might be an option
Plus ABB are pretty decent on support in my experience, so something to
consider

Byron

On Wed, 2 Aug 2023 at 10:24, William Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au> wrote:

> I presume there are a lot of other PLUG members who use a TPG group ISP
> like I do.
>
> It looks like iinet (and all TPG companies)  are dropping all email
> services (but apparently not dropping prices) and are force migrating
> people to a commercial company - free for now but ...
>
> The migration so far looks like a rolling disaster from some TPG focused
> forums I read.  Like almost everyone I have a google email address but is
> there a reasonable Australian ISP in Perth that still carries email?
> Telstra and Optus have never been "good" in my opinion.  I also run my home
> phone through them via asterisk and have mobiles with them - I am not sure
> they would consider them core services either. I do not store any email at
> iinet - they provide imap pickup (I run a local mail gateway), a couple of
> email aliases, provide virus and spam protection but that's it.
> Its looking like my best option is to stay with iinet (for now) and
> migrate away from iinet starting with email.
>
> What are others considering?
>
> BillK
>
>
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