According to this help page:
Starting February 2017, Verizon will no longer provide verizon.net email service. Instead they will focus on providing their internet, TV and phone customers the best experience possible. Verizon has teamed up with AOL to provide verizon.net email customers with AOL Mail, an enhanced email experience.
Further, it states that:
When it is time for you to move your verizon.net mail to AOL Mail, you will be notified by an email from Verizon and messaging on webmail.verizon.com.
Prior to last week, the page listed the anticipated rollout date as "February 15. 2017", but now it's been changed to "February 2017".
Is there an way that I can manually initiate the migration to AOL Mail? I'd like to utilize AOL Mail's IMAP support for this account, and I'm kinda getting tired of waiting.
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Email Retirement
Frequently asked questions
https://www.verizon.com/Support/Residential/email/migrations.htm?CMP=DMC-CVZ_ZZ_ZZ_Z_DO_N_X00425
We have decided to close down our email business. We will let you know when it's time to choose how to handle your email account going forward via email. In addition, you'll see a message from us when you log into your email from webmail.verizon.com indicating “Email service notice”. Click on “Keep verizon.net email address” or “Try any other email provider” to complete the setup.
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I use Mozilla Thunderbird for email. I've posted the issue on Mozillazine, the forums for Mozilla products.
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=3028446
Anyone else who's using TB can follow that thread or join that forum. The folks there DO NOT work for Mozilla. We're an independent user-to-user help forum. The members are savvy; many are retired from or working in the IT industry.
I have read that many have received messages that their email accounts are going away soon. I have not yet received such a message. Is mine going away soon? How can I find out when it will be shut down?
Lulu:
I'm in the same boat. I live in Fairfax (City), VA and have not received notification yet, or I may have deleted it accidentally. I called in to Verizon on Friday and was told that they will send up to two additional notices if you do not take action on the first one. I was also told that everyone in Fairfax would not be changed over at the same time - it's on an individual basis. I don't know how true any of this is, but I'm somewhat worried, like you.
Lulu, NOVA,
I live in DC. Our geographic proximity may not mean anything due to the state lines, but the first e-mail announcing the need for me to migrate arrived on Monday 3/13. A second e-mail came on Wednesday 3/15. Both say that effective April 13, Verizon will no longer provide verizon.net e-mail service.
Further, when I sign into webmail.verizon.com, there is a new welcome page that announces the migration, gives you links to click to migrate to AOL or to other services.
I cannot speak for Verizon, but my guess is that if you have not received an e-mail and you don't see the new welcome screen, it's not your time yet. After all a phased migration makes sense as it helps prevent help desks from being overloaded with questions.
j_m
I have hear that Verizon will cancell my verizon email account is that true?
My parents live in the same city as I and they received notice last week about switching their e-mail to AOL or another carrier. I have not received any noticed. If so I must have deleted it. Is this true? A lot of scams these days and want to make sure this is true. If so why are they doing this seems that people are having trouble with AOL. I never liked AOL and I am happy with the Yahoo/Verzon. How will I now when I am suppose to switch. My parents email said it was suppose to be in April. Although some people have posted it was suppose to happen in Feburary. What is true?
I've moved my account to AOL today. Since my wife doesn't want hers switched for a couple of days, I wrote down notes for the transition. Here are a few observations for those facing the migration.
On the whole it wasn't too bad. The entire process took about 30 minutes. While I would have preferred to spend that time doing something else, it wasn't as bad as has been imagined by some in the forum.
Good luck with your migrations!
j_m
BSlaydon1218:
Yes, they are migrating. It appears that they are only moving some at any given point, so your parents having gotten an e-mail while you have not is quite feasible. Read the thread above for more details.
j_m
Spanky 859:
They aren't cancelling your account, just moving it to use their AOL e-mail system. You will be allowed to keep your verizon.net e-mail address if you want.
Please see the "initiate-migration-to-AOL-Mail?" thread for more details.
j_m
goingsoon:
It's not going away, but Verizon is migrating the verizon.net e-mail accounts to the AOL Mail system. You will be allowed to keep your verizon.net e-mail address if you want.
Please see the "initiate-migration-to-AOL-Mail?" thread for more details.
j_m
One more thought . . . Migrating makes this forum superfluous. I will be gone soon.
j_m
Dave_NOVA -
Thanks for the information. Very helpful! I was getting ready to call myself -- "the dreaded Verizon call" -- and you have saved me the effort. Looks like I just need to wait...
james_marshall-- Thanks for posting. This was also helpful and somewhat reassuring. Guess I'll just have to wait...
I migrated 1 of my 2 e-mail account to AOL. What I noticed is I lost anything in my Drafts folder. All other folders seem fine.
Frustrating, as I'm not positive what was in there, but I know I had one draft I was working on it where it took my a long time to track down the e-mail address to send to, and since I was only going to use it once, I didn't write down or save that address anywhere else. Now I have to track that e-mail address down again.
I apparently will have to check my 2nd e-mail account's Drafts folder before I transfer it to make sure there isn't anything I need in it.
For those who are opting to switch over to AOL, I created a userstyle that will remove all the annoying ads in AOL Webmail. It's compatible with Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Opera.
https://userstyles.org/styles/128796/aolmail-noads
Note: To use this, you'll need to install an extension called Stylish.
The cost of the service keeps going up but now the service is less. Already cut cost by lowering what package we had but kept the basic items - now Fios is cutting the basic items - Is this the time to shop around????
Does anyone know how long you will be without email access when you migrate to AOL or another service provider?
Will our costs be lowered, since Verizon will no longer be the service provider?
I was without service for about 2 minutes.
johnnyzero2,
Thanks! I will give this a try. I hate ads. Particularly in a service I am paying for!
Kudo to you!
Today 3/20, I get a notice that I need change to AOL (which I decided ages ago I didn't want) or lose service. Yes I can go to gmail etc but why would they only give such short notice. Looking at the forum it seems some folks got more warning.
Also my elderly mother is on verizon but with Yahoo. Does this impact her account at all?
@johnnyzero2 wrote:For those who are opting to switch over to AOL, I created a userstyle that will remove all the annoying ads in AOL Webmail. It's compatible with Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Opera.
https://userstyles.org/styles/128796/aolmail-noads
Note: To use this, you'll need to install an extension called Stylish.
That's only for webmail. Do you have something for Mozilla Thunderbird?
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